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Jan 06, 2011 13:54 |  #1

I took this picture over the summer. We went out on the Argossi cruise, it was pretty cold, but a nice clear sky. I did some PP in CS5 with the sky. I was wondering if the clouds added to the picture or is taking away from it. I didn't have my CPL at this time and still a newbie with photography. Also please comment on items I did bad on the picture taking process, or the good things.

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Jan 06, 2011 14:47 |  #2

The second one just doesn't look realistic, because the lighting from the clouds wouldn't correspond to the buildings. First one's good already :)


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Jan 06, 2011 14:47 |  #3

one thing you did wrong was to post the small versions!




  
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Jan 06, 2011 15:06 |  #4

Ok here is a bigger picture of the non-clouds.

Thank you for the input. I do agree about the lighting on the buildings the more i look at it.


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Jan 06, 2011 15:16 |  #5

you've got slight keystone distortion. You can correct for it in photoshop. I'd also sharpen the buildings.




  
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Jan 06, 2011 15:43 |  #6

I agree, the original looks clean and simple.
I have something pretty close to that, I just removed the distortion and sharpened the buildings like robertwsimpson said.

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Jan 06, 2011 16:34 as a reply to  @ WatsonLu's post |  #7

Quite a bit underexposed. I think the blue sky looks fine. But if you want some clouds, download free cloud brushes (Google) and just put a few in.

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Jan 06, 2011 17:41 |  #8

also clone away that lone cloud. if there would more that would be fine but because there are almost no clouds in the sky it looks out of place


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