Storm Approaching

mhfore

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21 Jun 2012 - 4:09 PM

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Hi Sandra,

I can see why you wanted to capture this sky with a storm brewing.

To a certain point processing is a personal choice so i'm not quite sure what you personally would consider an inprovement. A very simple alteration would be to lighten the foreground to make the machinery more visable and and leave or darken the sky a touch.

Firts make a copy of your image (always work on a copy) then go to levels and lighten the midtones slightly by pulling the middle pointer on the slider to the left, then apply a layer mask and erase the effect from the sky by setting the colour to black and using the brush to paint over the sky. If you remove the effect from areas you didn't want to change the colour to white and brush over those areas agian and this will replace the effect. If you want to darken the sky do the same again but this time move the middle slider to the right.

Sandra it's just a matter of playing with any adjustments you have so long as you always work on a copy you can't do any harm, if it's not as you like it throw the copy in the bin, make another and go again . When you've achieved what your happy with flatten the image and save as abc or 123 etc then when you close your original DO NOT save any changes.

Take care
Martin

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banehawi (Critique Team)

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21 Jun 2012 - 5:51 PM

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Martin makes a good point Sandra, - what would YOU like to see improved?

Youve made some changes to it already judging by the aspect ratio? From the pov of composition, you have the shed right in the centre, weras you needed to make the sky the dominant subject, - so more sky, less grass and shed for me.

The shed area is very dark as is expected, and it contains a lot of colours, apart from the grass, that see oversaturated.

I would suggest that you redu7ce the contrast in the non sky area, and reduce saturation, and increase contrast in the sky area, as you are essentially dealing with two different shts in the one image. You want to de emphasize one, and emphasize the other. In addition, adding more sky, and more width on the right to balance makes a better looking shot I think.

Also think about mono. Threatening skies can look great in mono.

Ive loaded 2 mods, a colour with the tweaks Ive mentioned, and a duo toned mono.

As you post processing skills are limited (practice!) best to make the most of this though when shooting, - more sky, less ground.


Regards



Willie

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