I will c&c your work for you

[Dwayne Oakes]

Hmmmm, what happened to the land/cityscapes?

I took this on the way home yesterday. The sky was nice and moody. This was about as much as I could do with it. Im curious to see what else you would do to enhance it.

Much thanks for work here. :thumbup:

I would leave it as is bit with some small tweaks.

good

-great mood
-great sky
-good contrast and color
-good DOF
-good comp

nit

-slight barrel distortion (shoreline) when placed on a grid
-FG a tad dark
-center of the sky is clipped

tweak

-added 10% distortion correction
-lightened (dodge) the FG and some of the sky
-healed out the center clipped part in the sky

Hope this helps and thanks for posting.

Take care,

Dwayne Oakes

 

[Dwayne Oakes]

Thanks for your offer, Dwayne, this is very kind of you.

Feel free to rip:

good

-nice soft focus effect
-nice natural colors
-exposure is right on
-good DOF

nit

-photo is a tad busy

tweak

-cropped off the top of photo to get rid of some clutter
-lightened (dodge) the FG
-lightened (dodge) the rock face

Hope this helps and thanks for posting.

Take care,

Dwayne Oakes

 

[Arkanjel Imaging]

Thanks for the distortion fix info. I was having trouble with that on wide angle stuff. :thumbup:

That center heal looks really good too.

 

[SuperMom30]

Love this photo but the chain fence got in my way and messed it up plus I know the contrast to high.

 

[Dwayne Oakes]

Love this photo but the chain fence got in my way and messed it up plus I know the contrast to high.

good

-amazing animal
-great light
-colors are good (but a tad over) personal choice
-good detail

nit

-white fur is clipped
-the crop works here but would be nice if the tiger was placed off center
-contrast a tad high

tweak

-toned down the colors a tad (personal choice)
-toned down the contrast a dad

-darkened (burn) the clipped white fur spots
-darkened (burn) the fence blur area

-lightened (dodge) the tigers white ear spots and chin
-lightened (dodge) the leaf shadows in the far right
-lightened (dodge) some of the rim around the water

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

Hope this helps and thanks for posting.

Take care,

Dwayne Oakes

 

[Dwayne Oakes]

Last rough count brings the c&c to 23. I will extend this to 35 c&c as we
are having a good turn out. So there is 12 c&c spots left if anyone is
interested and we can also add nature photos if your like.

PS I wil change the first post to read 35.

Take care,

Dwayne Oakes

 

[SuperMom30]

Love this photo but the chain fence got in my way and messed it up plus I know the contrast to high.

good

-amazing animal
-great light
-colors are good (but a tad over) personal choice
-good detail

nit

-white fur is clipped
-the crop works here but would be nice if the tiger was placed off center
-contrast a tad high

tweak

-toned down the colors a tad (personal choice)
-toned down the contrast a dad

-darkened (burn) the clipped white fur spots
-darkened (burn) the fence blur area

-lightened (dodge) the tigers white ear spots and chin
-lightened (dodge) the leaf shadows in the far right
-lightened (dodge) some of the rim around the water

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

Hope this helps and thanks for posting.

Take care,

Dwayne Oakes

WOW nice I thought this pic was beyond saving thank you so much!

 

[JTG40cal]

Not sure if you have reached your quota or not, but I would like to offer this photo up. I am a total noob and this is like maybe the third photo I have shot with my first DSLR. Feel free to do what you wish. Any criticism is much appreciated:

 

[Yemme]

Last rough count brings the c&c to 23. I will extend this to 35 c&c as we
are having a good turn out. So there is 12 c&c spots left if anyone is
interested and we can also add nature photos if your like.

PS I wil change the first post to read 35.

Take care,

Dwayne Oakes

I know I thanked you already but I'm thanking you again for being selfless. It's much appreciated. I love the end results. Bravo to you.

 

[Dwayne Oakes]

Not sure if you have reached your quota or not, but I would like to offer this photo up. I am a total noob and this is like maybe the third photo I have shot with my first DSLR. Feel free to do what you wish. Any criticism is much appreciated:

I went with HDR/Orton on this one. I understand that HDR is not everyones cup of tea. But I beleave HDR has a place in
modern day photography and in my opinion HDR excells at showing cars and buildings.


good

-very cool vehicle
-great perspective
-exposure is about right and fill flash helped a bit
-good contrast

nit

-vehicle has a tilt to the right (natural from resting on the curb)
-comp, unequal spacing on the left and right of photo
-photo is noisy
-could use HDR to get rid of the snapshot look (personal choice)

tweak

-straightened the vehicle
-cropped the photo so there is equal spacing on the left and right

HDR

(typically in HDR you would take from 3 to 7 exposures from the
camera and not make these exposures from one photo like I am doing here
but is shows the idea and also you don't have all the (save as) going on.

-made a darker photo from your photo using the (brightnes slider) and
(save as) and renamed the photo

-made a lighter photo from your photo using the (brightness slider) and
(save as) and renamed the photo

-put all 3 photos through HDR software
-added a tad of contrast boost and hightlight boost in the HDR software
-saved the photo

Orton-effect

-make the photo lighter by using the (levels) midtone slider
-add gaussian blur so photo goes blurry alot
-go into blending mode and select (muiltply)
-readjust (levels) sliders to lighten the photo

final tweaks

-desaturated the colors
-increased the saturation on the just the fog lights

-lightened (dodge) anywere the light falls on the photo like on the grill,
on the ground etc

-darkened (burn) around the BG, like the sky and stray parked car etc

-healed out the plate numbers
-put the photo through NR software

PS This sounds like alot of work but if you do it in step form it moves
along quickly plus the software is doing some of the work also.

Hope this helps and thanks for posting.

Take care,

Dwayne Oakes

 

[Dwayne Oakes]

Last rough count brings the c&c to 23. I will extend this to 35 c&c as we
are having a good turn out. So there is 12 c&c spots left if anyone is
interested and we can also add nature photos if your like.

PS I wil change the first post to read 35.

Take care,

Dwayne Oakes

I know I thanked you already but I'm thanking you again for being selfless. It's much appreciated. I love the end results. Bravo to you.

Thank you very much for the comments Yemme ! I am glad I can help.

Take care,

Dwayne Oakes

 

[SlimPaul]

Here's a photo of the sea I've recently taken. I'll be happy to hear what you think.
Thanks

 

[Dwayne Oakes]

Here's a photo of the sea I've recently taken. I'll be happy to hear what you think.
Thanks

good

-nice mood
-exposure is about right
-low noise
-no sensor dust (sky)
-horizon is straight

nit

-comp (horizon placed in center)
-colors are tad over (blue) personal choice

tweak

-cropped the photo to 1/3 rule

-darkened the photo just a tad using midtone (levels) slider
-desaturated the colors (personal choice)

-set chroma point on the pastel color in the sky and using (LCH tool) in Nikon NX2 increased color saturation of just the pastels and not the blue

-added a tad of selective contrast boost to just the water

-lightened (dodge) some of the sky and pastel colors in the water
reflection on the right

-healed out some dark specs in the water

Hope this helps and thanks for posting.

Take care,

Dwayne Oakes

 

[Bordaine]

Dwayne

I was told this needed sharpening. Have at it please.

 

[Fowler03]

alright i liked the last one that you did for me so lets see how this one turns out... i like the photo i just think that it is missing something but i just dont know what it is exactly...