Comments on: This Month’s Critique – You Make The Changes http://www.digital-photography-school.com/this-months-critique-you-make-the-changes Discover how to use your digital camera with our Digital Photography Tips. We are a community of photographers of all experience levels who come together to learn, share and grow in our understanding of photography. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:32:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Marcus http://www.digital-photography-school.com/this-months-critique-you-make-the-changes/comment-page-5#comment-75228 Marcus Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:40:28 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/?p=10281#comment-75228 This is my first time to be a critic in your site and I hope the methods I used here can shed some light. I found the image a bit gloomy as I think it is a bit under exposed. I believe it was taken on a day where it is about to rain. The trees in front are not really standing out and it tends to blend in with the background. The sky is also very dull. After downloading the original RAW file, I opened it in Adobe Photoshop camera Raw 5.0 and the following settings have been adjusted to give it a brighter feel: Exposure : +0.70 Blacks : 8 Brightness : +75 Contrast : +30 Vibrance : -10 Then I opened the image in Photoshop CS4 and adjusted the intensity of the CYAN in the background using Selective Color Adjustment. Colors : Cyan Cyan : -50% Magenta : +75% Yellow : +75% Black : 50% Finally, I adjusted the Color Balance to add more depth to the trees and reduced the blue and to add a bit more sunlight effect to the front trees. Color Levels : +50 +50 0 And…..Presto!!! Enjoy Unfortunately i can't open an account at flickr to show you the finish product because my isp is blocking the site. The good news is - You can try it for yourself This is my first time to be a critic in your site and I hope the methods I used here can shed some light.

I found the image a bit gloomy as I think it is a bit under exposed. I believe it was taken on a day where it is about to rain. The trees in front are not really standing out and it tends to blend in with the background. The sky is also very dull.

After downloading the original RAW file, I opened it in Adobe Photoshop camera Raw 5.0 and the following settings have been adjusted to give it a brighter feel:

Exposure : +0.70
Blacks : 8
Brightness : +75
Contrast : +30
Vibrance : -10

Then I opened the image in Photoshop CS4 and adjusted the intensity of the CYAN in the background using Selective Color Adjustment.

Colors : Cyan
Cyan : -50%
Magenta : +75%
Yellow : +75%
Black : 50%

Finally, I adjusted the Color Balance to add more depth to the trees and reduced the blue and to add a bit more sunlight effect to the front trees.

Color Levels : +50 +50 0

And…..Presto!!! Enjoy

Unfortunately i can’t open an account at flickr to show you the finish product because my isp is blocking the site. The good news is – You can try it for yourself

]]> By: Linda Abbott http://www.digital-photography-school.com/this-months-critique-you-make-the-changes/comment-page-5#comment-74267 Linda Abbott Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:35:20 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/?p=10281#comment-74267 I felt that there was a little too much information for a single photo, so I cropped it into two photos. The photo was a little underexposed, so I upped the exposure about 1/2 stop. On the vertical crop, I lowered the tree to the right using the clone stamp and raised the tree directly to its left. I felt it improved the composition. From there on, the same filters were used on both. , I went to work on them with Nik Software's Color Efex Pro. I applied the contrast color range, neutral density and their darken/lighten center for a slight vignette. Then I applied a de-noise filter, Nik's D'fine 2,0 and lastly, I applied an output sharpener, meant for video display from Sharpener 3.o. These were the results: [eimg link='http://www.flickr.com/photos/abbottpix/4134811889/' title='Grand Tetons 2' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2539/4134811889_6d6740c91e.jpg'] http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2539/4134811889_6d6740c91e_m.jpg I felt that there was a little too much information for a single photo, so I cropped it into two photos. The photo was a little underexposed, so I upped the exposure about 1/2 stop. On the vertical crop, I lowered the tree to the right using the clone stamp and raised the tree directly to its left. I felt it improved the composition. From there on, the same filters were used on both. , I went to work on them with Nik Software’s Color Efex Pro. I applied the contrast color range, neutral density and their darken/lighten center for a slight vignette. Then I applied a de-noise filter, Nik’s D’fine 2,0 and lastly, I applied an output sharpener, meant for video display from Sharpener 3.o. These were the results:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2539/4134811889_6d6740c91e_m.jpg

]]> By: Linda Abbott http://www.digital-photography-school.com/this-months-critique-you-make-the-changes/comment-page-5#comment-74266 Linda Abbott Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:24:23 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/?p=10281#comment-74266 I felt that the image had too much into it. I was actually able to crop it into two images. After cropping, I adjusted the exposure. It looked a little underexposed to me. Then, I applied a contrast color range filter from Nik Software's Color Efex Pro. On the more vertical shot, I also applied a neutral density filter from Color Efex Pro. I applied a slight vignet to bring out the focal interest. Then I used Nik Software's D'fine 2.0 to rid the photos of noise, both contrast and color, applied manually to the sky only. Finally, I used Sharpener Pro (also Nik Software) for output sharpening, making sure the structural sharpening was emphasized. Here are the results [eimg link='http://www.flickr.com/photos/abbottpix/4135571652/' title='Grand Tetons' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2535/4135571652_a06fded70c.jpg'] [eimg link='http://www.flickr.com/photos/abbottpix/4134811889/' title='Grand Tetons 2' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2539/4134811889_6d6740c91e.jpg'] I felt that the image had too much into it. I was actually able to crop it into two images. After cropping, I adjusted the exposure. It looked a little underexposed to me. Then, I applied a contrast color range filter from Nik Software’s Color Efex Pro. On the more vertical shot, I also applied a neutral density filter from Color Efex Pro. I applied a slight vignet to bring out the focal interest. Then I used Nik Software’s D’fine 2.0 to rid the photos of noise, both contrast and color, applied manually to the sky only. Finally, I used Sharpener Pro (also Nik Software) for output sharpening, making sure the structural sharpening was emphasized. Here are the results

]]> By: ronaldsam http://www.digital-photography-school.com/this-months-critique-you-make-the-changes/comment-page-5#comment-74179 ronaldsam Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:49:10 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/?p=10281#comment-74179 [img]http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/1959/grandteton.jpg[/img] and here is how it look grandteton.jpg"

and here is how it look

]]> By: ronaldsam http://www.digital-photography-school.com/this-months-critique-you-make-the-changes/comment-page-5#comment-74118 ronaldsam Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:04:15 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/?p=10281#comment-74118 this image is underexposed, adjust the level a little bit to enhance the color of the blue sky, adjust the curves and brush those trees so it doesnt look too dark Im focusing on mountain, so cropped the trees gave me a perfect view dont forget to sharpening the mountain this image is underexposed, adjust the level a little bit
to enhance the color of the blue sky, adjust the curves and brush those trees so it doesnt look too dark
Im focusing on mountain, so cropped the trees gave me a perfect view
dont forget to sharpening the mountain

]]> By: Summer Rush Photography http://www.digital-photography-school.com/this-months-critique-you-make-the-changes/comment-page-5#comment-74082 Summer Rush Photography Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:56:22 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/?p=10281#comment-74082 [img]<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/A6ewAhvpehxRg4TeQD78Ug?authkey=Gv1sRgCPCj26n_3c-dXw&feat=embedwebsite" rel="nofollow"></a>From <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/summerorush/Desktop?authkey=Gv1sRgCPCj26n_3c-dXw&feat=embedwebsite" rel="nofollow">Desktop</a>[/img] <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/ZjQPZKR9GSwY56jB-YwJuw?authkey=Gv1sRgCPCj26n_3c-dXw&feat=embedwebsite" rel="nofollow"></a>From <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/summerorush/Desktop?authkey=Gv1sRgCPCj26n_3c-dXw&feat=embedwebsite" rel="nofollow">Desktop</a> From Desktop" alt="a>" />"

From Desktop

]]> By: Emmanuel Ruhumuliza http://www.digital-photography-school.com/this-months-critique-you-make-the-changes/comment-page-5#comment-73973 Emmanuel Ruhumuliza Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:26:38 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/?p=10281#comment-73973 Yaay! Do I win something? lol. Yaay! Do I win something? lol.

]]> By: Chomon http://www.digital-photography-school.com/this-months-critique-you-make-the-changes/comment-page-5#comment-73953 Chomon Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:42:08 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/?p=10281#comment-73953 [img]http://www.flickr.com/photos/chomonkyaw/4126591567/[/img] - adjusted White balance and exposure - adjusted saturation - replace some cloud with the sky - replace the yellow bushes in the foreground with nearby trees so they don't attract the attention (I thought about cropping them out, but the pic is somewhat imbalanced) - whitened the snow a bit - unsharpen filter Add your comme grandteton

- adjusted White balance and exposure
- adjusted saturation
- replace some cloud with the sky
- replace the yellow bushes in the foreground with nearby trees so they don’t attract the attention (I thought about cropping them out, but the pic is somewhat imbalanced)
- whitened the snow a bit
- unsharpen filter
Add your comme

]]> By: mrsrobinson http://www.digital-photography-school.com/this-months-critique-you-make-the-changes/comment-page-5#comment-73872 mrsrobinson Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:27:58 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/?p=10281#comment-73872 Wow, a lot of these look really great...who knew one image could look so many different ways. Emmanuel R's really stands out to me...I love high contrast. Nice job everyone! Wow, a lot of these look really great…who knew one image could look so many different ways. Emmanuel R’s really stands out to me…I love high contrast. Nice job everyone!

]]> By: Leslie Campbell http://www.digital-photography-school.com/this-months-critique-you-make-the-changes/comment-page-5#comment-73821 Leslie Campbell Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:58:01 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/?p=10281#comment-73821 [img]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2613/4117396177_19de2cf428.jpg[/img] grandteton

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