Alcatraz

thanks for your feedback guys (:

I did a quick google search on "alcatraz" and looked under the image tab, and found other similar shots to mine. I do agree that the shot looks rather bland and needs an extra element (i.e. a lone sailboat in the water, some nice cloud formations etc2.). The next time I visit Alcatraz, I'll try something different.

Somehow when i do this using the 'layers' in photoshop, it looks exactly the same as before. How do I go about doing this exactly? Do i selectively increase saturation and adjust the brightness/level of certain parts of the photo?

LittleFish wrote in post #11640142
thanks for your feedback guys (:

I did a quick google search on "alcatraz" and looked under the image tab, and found other similar shots to mine. I do agree that the shot looks rather bland and needs an extra element (i.e. a lone sailboat in the water, some nice cloud formations etc2.). The next time I visit Alcatraz, I'll try something different.

Somehow when i do this using the 'layers' in photoshop, it looks exactly the same as before. How do I go about doing this exactly? Do i selectively increase saturation and adjust the brightness/level of certain parts of the photo?

Try using a Curves layer then mess around with the curve (it starts off as a straight diagonal line) to see if you can get a better effect. Just click somewhere along the line to create an adjustment point that you then drag up & down, Right & Left to change tonality. Probably just some slight changes to the curve will be enough.