Photo of a ruin, or ruined photo. C&C please

[Tight Knot]

Hi all,

I've spent too much time looking at this photo, and have lost all impartiality. I have no idea whether it's good any more or not.
Something about "not seeing the trees for the woods"? Or is that "Not seeing the woods for the trees"? I can't even tell that anymore.

Thanks in advance all.

 

[marmots]

usually when that happens to me i just walk away for a while

 

[Tight Knot]

usually when that happens to me i just walk away for a while

Great idea

 

[StringThing]

What happened to the reflection of the doorway?

 

[Tight Knot]

I wondered that also, the only thing I came up with, was that the angle of the reflection started higher than the post in the doorway.

 

[DragginJoker]

it's a vampire stone

 

[Tight Knot]

it's a vampire stone

LOL
:lmao:

 

[Trever1t]

Go back there, have your model pose in the doorway in front of the post, expose a little more or HDR to bring the shadows up a bit

 

[Tight Knot]

Go back there, have your model pose in the doorway in front of the post, expose a little more or HDR to bring the shadows up a bit

No Model involved here. Most of the black is from burn marks on the top of the stones, some shadows could use a bit of HDR, unfortunately, it doesn't rain very often here, so that was a once on who-knows how long shot.

 

[Overread]

Hmm not sure; but I can say that I can see a bright halo around the whole length of the top of the stone; look like you've done some selective editing of the sky and foreground areas and not gotten your layermask close enough to the boundary (a typical problem if you use HDR type software editing on a shot).

 

[Tight Knot]

Hmm not sure; but I can say that I can see a bright halo around the whole length of the top of the stone; look like you've done some selective editing of the sky and foreground areas and not gotten your layermask close enough to the boundary (a typical problem if you use HDR type software editing on a shot).

The sky looked blown out after the shot, so I used Photo Shop Raw to lower the exposure, and brightness while bumping up the contrast, so you very well may be right. Any ideas?

 

[Overread]

In that situation I'd double process the RAW. By that I mean I would first process it normally for the main foreground areas, letting the sky blowout if it wants. I would then open that version in photoshop and save it to a new file name (that is a small, but important step). I then open the RAW again in photoshop (here if you haven't changed the name it won't open it as the photo is already opened - even though you're working on the output and not the RAW) and this time keep all the settings I set before in the RAW the same, but I'll lower the exposure slider till the blownout areas are now correctly displayed.

I then open that version in photoshop as well and then copy and paste it into the first shot as a new layer - its then just a case of using layermasks to mask off the areas in the blown out shot so that the correctly exposed one below shows through.

 

[Tight Knot]

Go back there, have your model pose in the doorway in front of the post, expose a little more or HDR to bring the shadows up a bit

No Model involved here. Most of the black is from burn marks on the top of the stones, some shadows could use a bit of HDR, unfortunately, it doesn't rain very often here, so that was a once on who-knows how long shot.

I was wrong about the
burn marks. I went back to the original, and lo and behold, no burn marks, just a VERY bad job of layering.I am re
-doing and will post another version soon.

 

[JClishe]

Where was this taken? Looks cool.

 

[DiskoJoe]

cool spot. bad photo. to much fill and clarity. you are getting halos. those are the white parts around the edges. Do everything you can to prevent those from happening.