What is wrong with this photo?

[ladrones]

Hey all,


I'm new to this hobby. I would like a critique of this photo please.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/135/328757817_a96c3b1c8d_b.jpg

[Grain]

Apart from the sky, which i'm not sure you could improve really, I like it!
I love the lines leading in, love the crop too. Ok so the snow is a dirty white,the shot on the whole has a colour cast but that may be my monitor.
Welcome to the forums and Merry Christmas !

[Bob_A]

Curious, but is this a scan from a negative or a print?

[Grain]

You looking at the grain/noise in the sky Bob?

[ladrones]

The noise had me concerned. Plus their is a dot just above the power line alinged with the track. The sky looks fuzzy to me.

[Grain]

What is the dot/circle? clone tool mark?
Can you tell us more about the picture ladrones

[bobinatcat]

yeah seeing this photo looks like alot of mine im scanning in...

does anyone have an quick fixes for this type of thing...?

keep in mind there is about 150 photos i have to fix up and i have cs2, just not very proficient with it yet.

[ifonline]

Change the image to a black and white, maybe? I fooled around with this for a minute or so, ran Noiseware Pro on it, and although I ended up with some artifacts, maybe an interesting improvement?

http://www.iroshai.com/temp/potn/tracks.jpg

Hope you don't mind me trying something out with your image. If so, let me know, and I'll remove it.

[ladrones]

here is the photo with the contrast adjusted a bit:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/150/332321220_4d3274029f_b.jpg

[ifonline]

Argh... my eyes are burning! Okay, maybe not. Just kidding... just a touch of snow-blindness.

A lot of the detail is now gone. Is that what you were trying to achieve?

[ladrones]

Argh... my eyes are burning! Okay, maybe not. Just kidding... just a touch of snow-blindness.

A lot of the detail is now gone. Is that what you were trying to achieve?


The snow is now to clean for new mexico. What I would like to do is clean the grainyness and leave the details.
I am new to all of this...

[ifonline]

Do you have any kind of noise removal software, such as Noiseware or Noise Ninja, etc.? I took your original, ran Noiseware Pro on it, and adjusted the coloring a little to try and remove a greenish tint I was seeing.

Before & After:
http://www.iroshai.com/temp/potn/tracks_composite.jpg

End Result:
http://www.iroshai.com/temp/potn/tracks2.jpg

[Bob_A]

You looking at the grain/noise in the sky Bob?

Yup. It looks like the result I get from scanning one of my old negs that wasn't very well cared for. Also, there doesn't seem to be a lot of dynamic range, like it came from a inexpensive flatbed scanner ... or maybe the image was just overexposed wiping out some detail.

At least it looks like you can get a somewhat uesable image after you run it through some noise reduction software. :)