I will c&c your work for you, beginners welcomed.

[Dwayne Oakes]

I will c&c your work for you, tweak your photo with a repost of the photo
and a list of the tweaks I made so you can pick up some pp tips.
ONE photo per photographer and a 35 photo limit to this thread only.

PS Please note the tweaked photos from my last c&c thread will be
deleted to save upload space on my Zenfolio site. Thanks

Take care,

Dwayne Oakes

 

[sly677]

Awesome, I was hoping you would start another one of those soon...I really like what you do and I would like to see what can be done to improve this photo. Thanks
Syl

 

[benlonghair]

Is this landscape only?

 

[Stusmobile]

After reading your previous C & C threads and enjoying the outcomes I'm feeling brave. One of a series of shots taken recently at Disney, It was the first time really shooting with a new camera so there was a week of experimenting and learning. Fuji Finepix S8000fd,

thanks in advance

Stu

 

[sly677]

I don't think it is, there was another thread a couple weeks ago that was also here in this section and there was a variety of images in it...but really I guess it's up to Dwayne.

 

[Dwayne Oakes]

All subjects are fine.

Take care,

Dwayne Oakes

 

[Dwayne Oakes]

Awesome, I was hoping you would start another one of those soon...I really like what you do and I would like to see what can be done to improve this photo. Thanks
Syl

good

-great off center comp
-great mood and mystery (blue color and mist)
-exposure is right on

nit

-stray branch in the top left is a bit of a distraction
-photo is noisy
-photo has lens vignette in the corners
-photo has a slight tilt to the left when placed on a grid
-to many lights (takes away from the mood of the photo)

tweak

-straightened the photo
-put the photo through NR software

-lightened (dodge) the dark corners (vignette)
-lightened (dodge) the mist in the BG

-healed out the stray branch in the top left
-healed out the lights but left three under the tree to add to the mystery

-added a tad of selective USM (sharpening) to just the main tree

Hope this helps and thanks for posting.

Take care,

Dwayne Oakes

 

[dizzyg44]

How about this one?

 

[F1addict]

I was hoping you'd have another one of these threads up soon.

I took this about a week ago at Black Mountain Point on Lake George in NY. It was a great day for testing my new polarizing filter. And this was one of my favorites from the day

I tried a few things in photoshop to make it a little better like adjusting brightness/contrast and saturation, etc but I was wondering what you could come up with

 

[MikeBookPro]

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!

 

[Dwayne Oakes]

After reading your previous C & C threads and enjoying the outcomes I'm feeling brave. One of a series of shots taken recently at Disney, It was the first time really shooting with a new camera so there was a week of experimenting and learning. Fuji Finepix S8000fd,

thanks in advance

Stu

good

-good comp, it works here
-exposure is right on
-good detail
-low noise
-contrast and color all look very good

nit

-photo has a slight tilt to the right when placed on a grid (lens distortion is typical here at 4.7mm)
-some shadows could be opened up a tad
-stray objects in the far right sky could be healed out

tweak

-straightened the photo
-added a tad of contrast boost (very little)

-opened up (dodge) some of the shadows a tad (tower tops) etc

-lightened (dodge) the three gold balls on the flag poles and the orange lit
areas on the one white tower (right)

-lightened (dodge) the clock
-good colors but I turned down the blue a tad (personal choice)

-added a tad of global USM (sharpening) to get over the AA filter

-healed out the stray objects in the far right (sky)
-healed out the red dot on the building in the FG center left

Hope this helps and thanks for posting.

Take care,

Dwayne Oakes

 

[Stusmobile]

After reading your previous C & C threads and enjoying the outcomes I'm feeling brave. One of a series of shots taken recently at Disney, It was the first time really shooting with a new camera so there was a week of experimenting and learning. Fuji Finepix S8000fd,

thanks in advance

Stu

good

-good comp, it works here
-exposure is right on
-good detail
-low noise
-contrast and color all look very good

nit

-photo has a slight tilt to the right when placed on a grid (lens distortion is typical here at 4.7mm)
-some shadows could be opened up a tad
-stray objects in the far right sky and the red dot on the buildng near
the center left in FG could be healed out

tweak

-straightened the photo
-added a tad of contrast boost (very little)

-opened up (dodge) some of the shadows a tad (tower tops) etc

-lightened (dodge) the three gold balls on the flag poles and the orange lit
areas on the one white tower (right)

-lightened (dodge) the clock
-good colors but I turned down the blue a tad (personal choice)

-added a tad of global USM (sharpening) to get over the AA filter
-healed out the stray objects in the far right (sky)

-healed out the red dot on the building in the FG center left

Hope this helps and thanks for posting.

Take care,

Dwayne Oakes

Thank you Dwayne, much appreciated and gives me good starting spots for improving many other of the shots taken.

Stu

 

[AndrewK]

You do great work Dwayne! Hope you can get to mine.
Thanks!

 

[Dwayne Oakes]

How about this one?

good

-beautiful model
-very good studio lighting
-good pose
-good comp
-great skin tones

nit

-backdrop has dirt specs and marks on it
-red channel is clipped on model's right shoulder
-blemishes on the model's (neck, right knee and foot) could be healed out

tweak

-darkened (burn) the top of the backdrop
-lightened (dodge) the seam line in the backdrop to hide it

-added a tad of selective USM (sharpening) to the model's hair and dress
-added selective desaturation to just the right shoulder to fix the clipping

-healed out all the marks on the backdrop
-healed out the model's blemishes on the (neck, right knee and right foot)

-using the LCH tool in Nikon NX2 I set a chroma point on just the
blue color bands on the dress and increased the color saturation to
just the blue color

Hope this helps and thanks for posting.

Take care,

Dwayne Oakes

 

[dizzyg44]

Awesome!!!

How about this one?

good

-beautiful model
-very good studio lighting
-good pose
-good comp
-great skin tones

nit

-backdrop has dirt specs and marks on it
-red channel is clipped on model's right shoulder
-blemishes on the model's (neck, right knee and foot) could be healed out

tweak

-darkened (burn) the top of the backdrop
-lightened (dodge) the seam line in the backdrop to hide it

-added a tad of selective USM (sharpening) to the model's hair and dress
-added selective desaturation to just the right shoulder to fix the clipping

-healed out all the marks on the backdrop
-healed out the model's blemishes on the (neck, right knee and right foot)

-using the LCH tool in Nikon NX2 I set a chroma point on just the
blue color bands on the dress and increased the color saturation to
just the blue color

Hope this helps and thanks for posting.

Take care,

Dwayne Oakes