I like the shot conceptually, too..
Elements has a pulldown window for brightness and contrast, and a button
for "shadows and highlights' with a sliding scale for degree of same...
I use it a lot in this kind of situation - sometimes it needs too much
and the result is to noisy but other times it works great..
and I'm using old version 5. surely there msut be something comarable in
fancier photoshop versions.
Worth working on a bit, I think... funny shot worth going back for..
- but if you can't find it again with that trail marker... welll....
ann
On 10/17/2011 08:23, Brian Walters wrote:
On Monday, October 17, 2011 1:09 AM, "Larry Colen"<[email protected]>
wrote:
Went for a walk with some friends in the nearby park today. Sometimes
when I look at this I really like it, sometimes I think that the logs are
too dark. But, this is about as much as I can lighten them without the
leaves in the background getting too light.
Comments? Suggestion?
Very dramatic subject, well composed. I don't find the logs excessively
dark although the top left of the X could benefit by just a bit more
detail.
If you have Photoshop or an image editing program that supports layers
and masks, lightening the logs would be pretty easy. You'd just need to
apply a levels adjustment layer and restrict the effect to the logs
alone using a mask.
Another possibility - does Lightroom have a shadows/highlights tool?
Last resort - go back with a tripod and do several different exposures
for later blending in software.
Cheers
Brian
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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/6252591035/lightbox/
I tried with a bit more fill light, then darkening the leaves back up
with green luminance, but that didn't work very well for me.
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Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est
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