I will c&c your work for you

[farmerj]

what do you use for your NR software?

 

[davev]

A classic place and breathtaking view for sure !

good

-great place
-great light (side lighting)
-great comp (1/3 rule land vs sky)
-exposure is right on
-great detail
-nice natural colors
-good DOF

nit

-the natural haze

tweak

-set whitepoint off one of the clouds to increase the sky's highlights
to get through the haze in the sky

-set the WB a tad warmer to get rid of some of the blue color cast

-placed a rectangle marquee tool through the center section of the
photo (horizontally) and added a tad of contrast boost and a tad of
USM (sharpening) to that rectangle section only to get through
the haze

-added selective color saturation to just the greens and some of the major rock faces and color glows in the water reflection

-lightened (dodge) the large shadows in the FG

-added a tad of selective USM (sharpening) to the far rock on the
right in the FG

Hope this helps and thanks for posting.

Take care,

Dwayne Oakes

Thanks Dwayne.
Every time I've been to this spot it's been hazy.
I have a another tool in the box for it now.

 

[Dwayne Oakes]

what do you use for your NR software?

Thanks for the question, for the c&c work I use Noiseware
Imagenomic - Best Plugins for Adobe Photoshop and Apple Aperture

Take care,

Dwayne Oakes

 

[rcsmyth]

could you take a look at this one for me

Thanks

 

[Dwayne Oakes]

could you take a look at this one for me

Thanks

good

-exposure is right on
-good contrast and detail
-the color (yellows) are perfect
-good DOF
-no sensor dust (sky) and low noise

nit

-comp, cloud on center
-the sky could be a bit darker (blue)

-artifacts around the branches (could be from oversharpening)

tweak

-cropped the photo so cloud is off center

-darkened the blue by using the (LCH tool) in Nikon NX2, this makes
for a darker blue without affecting the rest of the colors in the photo

-darkened (burn) under the cloud a tad

-healed out some of the white cloud specs around the cloud

Hope this helps and thanks for posting.

Take care,

Dwayne Oakes

 

[Fowler03]

i like what i see so far you are really good so lets see what you can do with this picture since i have only been shooting for a few months now...

 

[Dwayne Oakes]

i like what i see so far you are really good so lets see what you can do with this picture since i have only been shooting for a few months now...

Can you post a larger photo, it is to small to edit. Thanks

Take care,

Dwayne Oakes

 

[ottor]

So...does anyone know what caused my electrical lines to be all jaggedy in my van photo?

Jon

Hi Jon,

A couple of things can cause this,

1-camera is set on low resolution, try setting camera on the largest file
size and set to JPEG FINE if you are shooting in jpeg

2-(save as) setting in your editing software is set to a low quality
setting, make sure this setting is set to 100% highest quality

3-make a print and see if it still shows up, if it does not show up in
print then you graphics card (Antilaising Filter) setting may be turned off
if so equipped and you are just seeing this effect on your LCD screen
and is not from your camera

4-over sharpening may not cause this but it can sure make it worse

Hope this helps.

Take care,

Dwayne Oakes

Actually there's nothing wrong with the picture..... the jagged lines are the result of resizing the picture for your post... Go ahead and click on the bar at the top of your picture to show it at it's original size, and the lines are magically smooth..

tks,

r

 

[Fowler03]

i dont know what size you want but this is the biggest that i have unless there is someway to enlarge a picture in photoshop but im not very good at photoshop

 

[Timothy]

what you can do to resize an image, as long as it is a decent size in the first place at least 1000 x 1000 pixels is to go resize image, and then change it to percent and type 110 - okay

not much bigger, but do it a few times...

 

[streettrailpark]

One of my favorite photos...

Thanks in advance!

 

[Dwayne Oakes]

i dont know what size you want but this is the biggest that i have unless there is someway to enlarge a picture in photoshop but im not very good at photoshop

good

-great nature area
-good contrast
-nice natural colors
-good comp (4x6 crop might work a bit better)

nit

-photo is underexposed (light meter is being trick by the whitewater)
-shallow DOF (background blurry) camera set at f/5
-light brown log in the bottom left is a bit of a distraction

tweak

-cropped the photo to a 4x6 format

-use (selection gradient tool) in Nikon NX2 that will lighten the background
but not the water to improve overall exposure, also used this tool
to add a tad of USM (sharpening) to the background only to improve DOF

-healed out the log in the bottom left and the water hotspot (clipped)
in the FG

Hope this helps and thanks for posting.

Take care,

Dwayne Oakes

 

[Dwayne Oakes]

One of my favorite photos...

Thanks in advance!

Excellent work and a perfect photo ! No tweaks necessary. Print and
frame it. A wallhanger for sure.

Take care,

Dwayne Oakes

 

[Chris M]

Can you give me a hand with this one?

Camera- Nikon D40
Lens-18-55mm
Focal Length- 18mm
Aperture- f/22
Shutter- 1/50 sec
Iso- 200

 

[streettrailpark]

One of my favorite photos...

Thanks in advance!

Excellent work and a perfect photo ! No tweaks necessary. Print and
frame it. A wallhanger for sure.

Take care,

Dwayne Oakes

Thanks!