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A night shot of Windsor Castle, how do Improve the colours I seem to be getting do I need to use gimp,photoshop to achieve this?
| Brand: | Canon |
| Camera: | Canon EOS 400D |
| Lens: | 35.0 - 80.0 mm (35 mm equivalent: 54.7 - 125.0 mm) |
| Recording media: | JPEG (digital) |
| Date Taken: | 26 Nov 2012 - 4:29 PM |
| Focal Length: | 66mm |
| Aperture: | f/7.1 |
| Shutter Speed: | 6sec |
| Exposure Comp: | -1.0 |
| ISO: | 100 |
| Exposure Mode: | Aperture-priority AE |
| Metering Mode: | Center-weighted average |
| Flash: | Off, Did not fire |
| White Balance: | Auto |
| Title: | Windsor Castle |
| Username: | 
Hatomedic |
| Uploaded: | 30 Nov 2012 - 9:55 AM |
| Tags: | Architecture, Night photography |
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Welco0me to EPZ James. Can you tell us first what you think is not right with the colours you have here? Looks good to me. You do need a photo editing programme for a load of reasons apart from colour, - Gimp is free and a decent piece of software, Photoshop is not free and is the standard for photo editing and quite powerful.
Regards
Willie
Good image.
I rather like the colours, gold and dark blue. Not too dark, can see detail around tree.
I've done a mod which crops a little off the left hand side to shift castle a little more off centre.
Not really necessary but just a thought.
I know you were asking about colours but you will find people will have other views about a picture.
regards
Ian
Hello, I have done you a mod. I first corrected the exposure which made the lights and reflections brighter. Then I corrected the colour cast which took out a bit of blue, and gave it just a bit more contrast. My software is quite basic but I am sure all software will do these things, hope this helps
Diane
This is pretty good. I see nothing wrong with the colours but wonder if you could have slightly more sharpness. You do need a photo editing program. Many here use Photoshop but it is very expensive. Photoshop Elements, the cut down version, does everything most keen photographers could want at about £80.
Digital images usually need some adjustment, contrast, brightness, sharpness etc. In the bad old days, photographers spent hours in darkrooms getting things right. Digital is so much easier in many ways but you still need to climb a learning curve. Master camera controls first, then software to get a good image, then start to experiment.
Paul
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