Aramok Workshop Photos Received

Title: Stob Dearg (1022 m) IICanon EOS 350D

Stob Dearg (1022 m) II (50) *
Aramok

(4885)

Photoshop CS

regis

(396) [2007-02-21 19:01:54] [2]

Emma - you may try to do some simple trick

- add Selective color layer
- work on Blues and Cyans
- move Black and other sliders right (almost to the maximum)
- add layer mask and mask the rest of the picture you don't want to change

It's not perfect method but it helps a bit. Sometimes you can't do much about it and polarisers don't work equally on such a wide field of view.

By the way - I've also added a bit of Cyan into the sky as the original colour looked a bit strange on my screen.

I didn't want to exaggerate with this glare reduction as it would look unnatural.

Hope it helps a bit

Piotr

Stob Dearg (1022 m) II (50) *
Aramok

(4885)

Photoshop Elements

Evelynn

(13461) [2007-02-17 00:32:32] [1]

I have a hard time getting images to upload with the same saturation as I see in Photoshop when I save them...so I'm not sure if I darkened the flare enough or too much on others' monitors. Anyway Emma wanted to know if there was a way to remove the lens flare at lower right by the rock. I duplicated the image and on the layer below I used contrast until that flare looked correct...but all the rest of the image looked horrible. Then I went to the duplicated image and erased with a soft, low opacity brush until the flare blended with the rest of the image. It could be done with an adjustment layer also.

PS
Now that I have uploaded it I can see that it could have been a little darker on some of the flare area. The flare had disappeared entirely before upload. It is just a matter of fine tuning.

Title: Stob Dearg (1022 m)Canon EOS 350D

Stob Dearg (1022 m) (42) *
Aramok

(4885)

Pre-crop

(4885) [2007-02-12 13:16:38]

Just to show as described in notes

Title: Albino Common Spotted OrchidCanon EOS 350D

Albino Common Spotted Orchid (36)
Aramok

(4885)

none

(4885) [2006-11-21 09:28:30]

Just a quick picture to show the first albino I saw against another common spotted orchid. As you can see it is much smaller and there will be more flowers to come on the 'standard orchid where as the albino is in full flower. This particular pair were actually alongside a toilet block and I got some very odd looks taking this photo!

Title: Rhodotus palmatus (Wrinkle Peach)Canon EOS 350D

Rhodotus palmatus (Wrinkle Peach) (30)
Aramok

(4885)

crop

mbasil

(3130) [2006-11-12 13:44:27] [2]

I was just getting rid of the white area near the top.

That Tree Again! (28)
Aramok

(4885)

vertical version

(4885) [2006-11-02 09:32:12]

just a vertical version....

Title: Sunrise Splendor MK IICanon EOS 350D

Sunrise Splendor MK II (40)
Aramok

(4885)

original

(4885) [2006-10-21 12:04:03]

this is the orginal. to get to the one I have posted, I correted the white balance usign the temperature scale available setting it to 3400K (almost to the very far left (cold) hand side of the scale)) and increased the brightness by 0.67EV)

Sunset Mirages (20)
Aramok

(4885)

WS to show second reflection

(4885) [2006-08-06 16:02:46]

just another to show what had caught my attention... there are 2 refelctions of the sun on the water...

Lone Tree (130) *
Aramok

(4885)

levels multiply and shadow/highlights

AndrewWallis

(246) [2006-08-04 20:38:32] [5]

There was nothing wrong with the original version. This was simply an experiment to see how different one photo can look with different techniques.

I selected the sky (a relatively easy way to do this is to select a colour range and adjust the tolerance to determine how wide a range is selected), copied it to a new layer and selected the "multiply" blending option. This has the effect of intensifying the sky. The effect can be fine tuned by adjusting the opacity of the new layer.

I then brought down the highlights further (on the flattened image) which has quite a saturating effect on colours (personally I think it works better than the saturation tool for this). I then increased the shadows slider to brighten up the image.

A Pole Cat (60)
Aramok

(4885)

rainbow problem

(4885) [2006-07-14 01:38:00]

just a quick post to show the rainbow effect quick a few of my pictures suffered in the bright light on Wednesday....

Any ideas? Sun was exactly behind me....