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melindac
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Jan 14, 2009 22:23 |  #1

How can this picture be improved?

Here's some info on the pic:
Model: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XSi
ISO: 100
Exposure: 1/640 sec
Aperture: 5.0
Focal Length: 10mm
Flash Used: No

Thanks in advance!

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Jan 14, 2009 23:37 |  #2

Nice shot. I love Veas.

I could be wrong but I think you may have wanted to use a smaller aperture (maybe f/11 or higher).

As far as PP, I quickly did this... dont know if it is too much saturation or anything...

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Jan 14, 2009 23:57 |  #3
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Smart sharpen, a smidgen of straightening the buildings, I little UnSharpMask and a crop.

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Jan 15, 2009 01:30 |  #4

reefman23 wrote in post #7080009 (external link)
Nice shot. I love Veas.

I could be wrong but I think you may have wanted to use a smaller aperture (maybe f/11 or higher).

As far as PP, I quickly did this... dont know if it is too much saturation or anything...

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HTH,

Jesse

I think this works great for this shot. It's over saturated, but isn't that the point of Vegas?




  
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melindac
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Jan 15, 2009 06:21 as a reply to  @ griptape's post |  #5

Thanks all for the feedback and edits. I like both of them.

Reefman, I agree, I should have shot with a higher fstop. I will definitely have to try that next time. I wonder what the water would have looked like with the slower fstop though?

Cyborg, how did you straighten the buildings? Did you the lens distortion tool? Are the buildings slanted because of the barrel/pincushion effect? Will that always happen or can I somehow avoid it by taking the picture straight on instead of tilting the camera upward?




  
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Jan 15, 2009 06:27 |  #6

The angle/distortion leaves me with a queasy feeling.


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Jan 15, 2009 07:32 |  #7

The original is flat color wise, so the I like the saturation of the edit. Also, I agree the barrel distortion is distracting and sharpening needs to be done. Sometimes distortion adds to a pic, but not in this case. I would also correct for this.

Then you have a decent shot in my opinion.




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Jan 15, 2009 10:53 |  #8
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That type of building is very hard to take without a T/S lens.
I used CS3's transform, but I still didn't get it totally correct.
I used a grid and matched the tower cranes for vertical.


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