Some Help Please

Hi,

What do you think of the before and after picture. Does the PP and HDR do anything for you? Also, I can still see a faint line where the power line used to be. Any suggestions on how to get rid of that?

Thanks in advance!

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My first thought when looking at the "After" picture was WHOA!

I like the building a lot, but the streetlights kinda throw me off.

Did you clone out the wire? Try to heal brush it some? Maybe take a brush with the same color of the area with a soft edge on multiply and go over the edge some?

I'm not sure. I think that if the first one was lightened a bit and the wire cloned out that I'd like it (the first one) better. By the way, the cloning out of the wire in the second photo is a bit... obvious

Cheers,

I think you did a great job. While you were at it, it would have helped to straighten out the horizon and correct the converging verticals.

For future reference, I suggest taking such a shot a little later in the evening. The balance between the artificial lights and the twilight is critical.

The composition might be just a bit better with more foreground and less sky - plus it would have reduced the converging verticals to get the camera closer to level.

Just for fun. Pushed the limits. You can also use the blurr tool to help with the remaining line left by the wire.

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Thank you all for your comments and suggestions.

dawnkyung - I will try your suggestion with the PP.

gcflora - I agree, the line is definitely obvious.

Bob - Luckily the church is nearby so I'll try out your suggestions. What tool in photoshop do you recommend to fix the converging verticals? Transform?

rw2 - I like your edit. It looks cool and I definitely don't see the line there anymore.

i like the first one, don't like the hdr at all

Hmmm. Just a personal choice when it comes to HDR ... I prefer a photography to look like a photography and art to look art ... Even the most extreme HDR "can" look beautiful, but he can easily be used as a crutch for just bad photography.

Anyway. With this photo, other than HDR, I think the key to post processing is in using various selection tools to edit parts of it separately. I selected the ground and sky separately and adjusted levels and saturation separately. Also used a slight surface blur on the church, and a bit of sponge saturation on just the lights. I used the clone and patch tools to get rid of the electrical wires. If you gonna get rid of the wires, you might as well get rid of the traffic lights too.
The top of the trees could be done better, but hey, I'm sleepy. LOL

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melindac wrote in post #8484065
Thank you all for your comments and suggestions.

dawnkyung - I will try your suggestion with the PP.

gcflora - I agree, the line is definitely obvious.

Bob - Luckily the church is nearby so I'll try out your suggestions. What tool in photoshop do you recommend to fix the converging verticals? Transform?

rw2 - I like your edit. It looks cool and I definitely don't see the line there anymore.

I believe it is called "Transform Perspective", and you use the Crop tool and check the "Perspective" option.

kjonnn - nice PP. i like how you removed the traffic lights. i was too tired to remove it after cloning out the lines. maybe i'm doing it wrong. do you use a big or small brush.

Thanks. The size brush I used was a little bit smaller than the with of the light pole.