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An old stable in Bishop's castle, Shropshire.
I'm trying to collect interesting images of my home county, Shropshire.
I'b be interested to see if my image editing is ok and what someone else would do with it.
I have recently changed over to a mac and find that everything is a little darker on screen at the default settings. I'm used to it now, but some of my old portfolio images look too dark to me.
I'm reluctant to change things by re-calibrating as my prints come out really well.
Does this print look ok or is it too light or dark to you?
V1 edited version
V2 original, unworked file
V3 B&W version
Hand held
f.16 @ 1/90
ISO 200
0 exposure bias
f.l. 18mm
Tweaked in camera raw.
Shadows and highlights altered slightly.
Hint of water trough in bottom left corner burned in.
Sky darkened in layers with multiply.
Elder tree dodged a little.
Tiles and door of building burned in a little.
Distracting shadow in foreground cloned out.
Whole image darkened slightly in multiply, areas that were too dark erased.
Building and trees sharpened with unsharp mask @ 50.
Framed.
Thank you for looking,
Chris
| Title: | The Old Stable |
| Username: | 
ChristineL |
| Uploaded: | 1 Oct 2010 - 9:09 AM |
| Camera: | Nikon D90  Check out Nikon Nation! |
| Lens: | 18-200 |
| Recording media: | RAW (digital) |
| Tags: | Bishop's castle, Building, General, Landscape / travel, Old stable, Shropshire |
| Votes: | Voting Disabled |
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| Modifications Welcome (Upload a Modification) |
 | Variant - Before and After |
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Version 1 works well for me, just feel though that probably theres a a little too much of the sky in the image, personally i would have cropped it down a bit from the top . Other than that i like the image 
, though i also feel that there could be some more interesting images to be found here by adjusting your point of view maybe a little to the left or try changing the mode to landscape to get what i think is a track running down there.
Cheers and hope this helps
The editing in V1 looks fine to me Christine (although I am looking at it on a PC so I am not sure whether that helps you or not).
The stables looks slightly cramped in the frame though. I guess there are other buildings in the background which you did not wish to include with a wider view. Maybe if you had moved to the right and taken the stables straighter on you could have excluded most of them and still given the building a bit more room to breathe.
Best wishes
Catherine
Thank you everyone.
Yes Catherine there were problem buildings on either side and cars etc.
(I think this works better in B&W which I may post later on.)
Thank you for letting me know it looks ok to you, it's the only way I can know if what I'm doing isn't too bad,
Chris.
Thank you Brian, it looks great.
I do like my big skies though
Chris.
I've added the B&W version, which with hindsight I think I prefer.
Chris.
Its looks fine to me Christine.
It is worth calibrating the Mac though anyway.
Are you using Photoshop or Aperture?
Photoshop lets you preview your print using the ICC profile of the paper you will print on so you can make adjustments, - and calibration might result in no real change anyway, - at least you will know either way.
I assume you are using Safari as a browser, - make sure its Safari 5 which supports colour management, - otherwise Firefox is the best.
The mono again is great with the sky, - and it seems you are using a red filter or bias in conversion, which gives a dark sky, but light reds, so I would suggest you increase contrast on the building only, - you would need to use a layer mask.
Willie
Willie
Thank you Willie, I use Aperture when I upload my images to sort through them and put them into projects etc and photoshop elements 8 to edit. I do use safari 5.
I am very happy with my prints, I just wasn't sure how things looked on here to everyone else. Going by my old uploads, many of which I have deleted, there is a very different tone to this monitor compared with my old one.
Looking at other peoples images on here, which I like, there is no problem, so it's probably me that's changed more than anything.
I've been away from EPZ for about a year so perhaps I just do things differently now.
As for the mono I just use the set conversion options in PS8 and tweak a little, I'm still learning with that,
Chris.
p.s. Love your Mod.
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