help me pleeeease!

nabero · Mar 8, 2007

Here is my edited photo:

This is actually one of my more favorite photos (it's sentimental and I personally think it looks pretty neat)...but I can't seem to edit it properly...the colors just never seem to work completely, and the richness of different areas seems a bit off (?) I feel like there is something I could do with a crop, but I've grown so used to seeing the original that I can't figure it out! I would love some fresh eyes to take a look at this!

Here is the original, please feel free to show me examples of crops or edits if you feel so inclined :sillysmi:

cheers!

Lostinthe619 · Mar 8, 2007

Did you shoot in RAW and if so do you have the original file?

nabero · Mar 8, 2007

I did not...I took this a while ago when I was still getting used to manual settings. I'm getting the feeling that the shot as is would be pointless to work at editing too much...

cherrymoose · Mar 8, 2007

I can try something when I get home. I might go overboard, though, since I'm so new to all this post-processing stuff. :lol:

dewey · Mar 8, 2007

It's never pointless or hopless... this is a little more like an illustration but it might help the creative juices flow:

Alex_B · Apr 22, 2007

nice colours in the sky ... and very German with the METRO sign

Living very close to the Metro headquarters myself

cherrymoose · Apr 22, 2007

Ooh, I posted that I'd do something but I never did. *photoshops it now*

julius · Apr 22, 2007

Do you have any larger copies of the photo?

This image is very small and there are quite a few jpeg artifacts

zendianah · Apr 24, 2007

dewey said:
It's never pointless or hopless... this is a little more like an illustration but it might help the creative juices flow:

I love the edit... Did you use photoshop?

Corry · Apr 24, 2007

dewey said:
It's never pointless or hopless... this is a little more like an illustration but it might help the creative juices flow:

Personally I think that's a little overdone, and it brought out artifacts and halos around the buildings.

I'm not at home where I have PS, so I can't SHOW you...but if it were me, I'd try to darken the foreground a bit, so it's more silhouetted, and do some slight saturation and contrast bumps to the color in the sky....

...my personal opinion is that often, less is more, and subtlety goes a loooong way.

nabero · Apr 24, 2007

julius said:
Do you have any larger copies of the photo?

This image is very small and there are quite a few jpeg artifacts

At the moment I don't...I'm still conjuring up the effort to install my new dvd drive...the original file is on a DVD...I'll try to post it up when I get myself all put together...though the quality of the original isn't too great either.