Darkhorse
26th of February 2005 (Sat), 19:38
Everyday can't be sunny, especially in England. I'm moving there in a matter of days for some design and illustration work and so the photographic possibilities may be more limited... or maybe I'm not taking some creative post production fine-tuning into account.
I'm asking for techniques I can use for these gray days. The following is one thing I recently worked on:
The photo on the left is one I took last December. As you can imagine the weather at this time was crap. Everything pretty gray. So I first did a channel mixer adjustment warming up some of the colours then I duplicated the image in another layer an adjusted the mid tone levels severely so that details and colours emerged out of the clouds but this made St.Paul's pretty black, so the next task was to make a layer mask on that layer and paint out the black church so the bright one underneath would emerge. Then it was a simple matter of dodging the busses, editing the fringe, some other level adjustments and done. It still could use some noise reduction in the sky but you get the idea.
http://formerairline.com/messageboards/stpauls1.jpg http://formerairline.com/messageboards/stpauls2.jpg
Any other ideas or techniques you can share?
I'm asking for techniques I can use for these gray days. The following is one thing I recently worked on:
The photo on the left is one I took last December. As you can imagine the weather at this time was crap. Everything pretty gray. So I first did a channel mixer adjustment warming up some of the colours then I duplicated the image in another layer an adjusted the mid tone levels severely so that details and colours emerged out of the clouds but this made St.Paul's pretty black, so the next task was to make a layer mask on that layer and paint out the black church so the bright one underneath would emerge. Then it was a simple matter of dodging the busses, editing the fringe, some other level adjustments and done. It still could use some noise reduction in the sky but you get the idea.
http://formerairline.com/messageboards/stpauls1.jpg http://formerairline.com/messageboards/stpauls2.jpg
Any other ideas or techniques you can share?