Comments on: Monthly Critique And Edit

By: Yusoff

Yusoff — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:33:01 +0000

I think the cloud should be the main subject, I can see the queen wearing a crown, looking down to the rock, which resemble the king (to the left)

By: parkylondon

parkylondon — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:57:17 +0000

I decided to crop to the line of prayer flags and to make them the horizon. I think it works better with the flags horizontal. Lightroom settings then the picture.

BASIC:
Temp: 4500
TInt -50

Exposure +1.33
Recovery 87
Fill light 29
Blacks 27
Brightness +100
Contrast +100

Clarity +88
Vibrance 0
Saturation 0

TONE CURVE:
Hightlights 0
Lights =5
Darks 0
Shadows 0

SPLIT TONING:
Balance 0
Shadows 215
Saturation 83

VIGNETTES
Lens Correction
Amount +29
Midpoint 73

By: Abdullah-al-Kabir

Abdullah-al-Kabir — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:19:45 +0000

I prefer to edit a photo while I take one: frame, color, the theme of the photo why I should take one. Making a new image from the original one, after manipulating it, I don’t consider it to be the job of a photographer. However, if someone find it ejoyable to create something new pasting together differents parts of different photos, of course, that might be an ART WORK, but probably not the job of a photographer.

By: Abdullah-al-Kabir

Abdullah-al-Kabir — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:09:31 +0000

It was just a puzzle for me to see the original image. Later, the edited photos opened for me a horizon of understanding of photo editing. Great!

By: Henrique

Henrique — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:59:11 +0000

Croped and tilted a little, auto tone, reduced vibrance, added graduated filter to sky and ground, to darken foreground and lighten upper part of the sky, added dust spot removal, to clear two sensor dark points on the upper part of the sky, increased saturation only on the “flags”. Think it was all I’ve done!

By: Richard Ingram

Richard Ingram — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:01:10 +0000

Sorry about that invalid link. Try this one. It should work.

http://www.photoshop.com/accounts/d49f9a44ff7f49ee8a9f8d4a06bc098b/px-assets/89c6ebac27a74bdba2b8256c3cc391d9

By: Richard Ingram

Richard Ingram — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:58:30 +0000

I focused on the summit, calling this image, “I Think I Can…” I could not get the sharpness as crisp as I would like. The cropping, sharpness, and drop shadow were done in FastStone Image Viewer.
http://www.photoshop.com/accounts/d49f9a44ff7f49ee8a9f8d4a06bc098b/px-assets/89c6ebac27a74bdba2b8256c3cc391d9/img

By: Shayne Willis

Shayne Willis — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:26:24 +0000

I am new to this and I am not sure if I am posting it correctly so bare with me.

In Camera RAW

Exposure +1.05 , Recovery 30 , Fill Light , 4 , Blacks 16 , Brightness +65 , Contrast +58 , Clarity +48
Vibrance +27 , Saturation +8 , Sharpening 76 , Radius 1.3 , Detail 32 .

In Photoshop CS4

Dodge and Burn the shadows and highlights for added depth. Dropped the levels in shadows and mid-tones to increase contrast some more for more depth. I bumped up the exposure in the levels box on the color blue. I added a filter from Topaz Adjust 3.0 “Portrait Drama” and then masked the sky down to 50% back in photoshop. If you have more questions you can contact me at shaynew@ymail.com and I would be happy to tell you anything you wish to know.

Shayne

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By: Edmond

Edmond — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:09:50 +0000

Iza, I would never guess this crop is possible. I like what you did with it.

By: Iza

Iza — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:16:48 +0000

It was a tough one. I didn’t like the colorful rags, but didn’t want to take them out, as I figured they are there for a reason. I focused on reducing the effect of distracting red rags on the image instead.
The description of what I did (not too complicated) can be found here:
http://www.korwelphotography.com/2010/02/08/nepal-dps-monthly-edit-february-2010/?preview=true
and the final image can be found in the above post or directly here:
http://www.korwelphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/nepal1.jpg