old bicyle

Hi all,

Tell me what you think - good/bad? Any improvments that can be made. The only think I have done to this picture so far is resize it to post it here.

Thanks

Justin

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its lovely
a wobbly bike and flat tyres and lovely old bricks

lol

I think I'd like it better without the spots of sunlight drawing attention away from the bike.

Any way to get rid of the spots in Photoshop (I have CS2)

Not sure how even a job you could do, but you could try using a selection & a Layer Mask. PS, see post #9; PS Elements in Post # 14
A question about sky and the Airport runway shoot link in my post.

looks out of focus to me...

How about some over the top processing? The original is a neat shot, but it seems to be slightly out of focus.

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The actual orig picture appears to be much more crisp however the resize somehow made it appear a bit out of focus. Not sure why this would happen - or my eye is just not keen to it.
If it is actual out of focus, could there be something wrong with my camera (or the lens) when set to Auto-Focus?

Woolburr,
The shot actually looks really cool with the added proccessing you did. What did you do? Thanks - Justin

You need to sharpen after you resize. For that shot, maybe USM 100 0.8, 1

If The actual orig picture appears to be much more crisp I wouldn't worry about the cam or lens. Maybe operator error, but 1/100 at 38mm should work OK.

Justin_NJ wrote in post #5426207
Woolburr,
The shot actually looks really cool with the added proccessing you did. What did you do? Thanks - Justin

Leveled the horizon, cropped to get rid of the dead space, adjusted the levels, increased black level +10, used a NIK tonal contrast filter set at 100%...


I'm not sure why you are losing sharpness when you downsize for the web. Your original picture has a ton of potential and that bike makes for a great subject.