The Mill Bridge C&C Pls

Morrisseeee · 26-02-2009 11:43am #1

It was a dull day, so I decided to do a Black-n-white composition. I took 5 exposures and used the HDR option in Photoshop CS3, then boosted saturation and then tried playing around with a few Black-n-White options in CS3, ie. reds, greens etc. In the end I went googly eyed... I printed it off but it had a blue-ish look, but my monitor doesn't show it ! The sky also has streaks in it !(but this happens for any sky HDR photo I've done). I haven't tried Photomatix, but I'm hoping its more user friendly than the CS3 option !
So......Eventually I just took the best exposure and did a basic Black-n-White & Sepia of it and here are the results. Any C&C / improvements are welcome !
Also which one do ye prefer:

1. Color (slightly reduced Saturation)

2. Black-n-White

3. Sepia

AnCatDubh · 26-02-2009 12:50pm

to pick one i'd personally go for the sepia but...... meh..... it just doesn't grip me to be honest. The sky is your biggest enemy on a shot like this. Same skies have banjaxed me on a number of times. The scene doesn't quite do it for me either i'm afraid - and it probably should. I'm not sure are there better angles possible or is the ruins just too central or too much of the tree (appears a bit like a large blob) on the right.... Yeah, I guess i'm not a fan. I think you'd need a powerful sky to start with to go the hdr route - at least the most powerful ones i've seen have had that characteristic.

Just my thoughts though. Others may appreciate more to it.

Cheers.

Morrisseeee · 26-02-2009 12:58pm

The sky is your biggest enemy

....yep, absolutley nothing there, just pure grey bleakness !! I suppose my main point in posting the 3 pics is to see what processing looks better or grabs the attention. I will re-visit the location on a better day ! I mainly took the photo to try out some HDR but CS3's option is a major bugbear/pain-in-the-ass for me :eek:

stick-dan · 26-02-2009 1:08pm

I commented on your pixie that the sepia was better and it really is by a long shot.what about a crop to about half the tree on the right hand side and maybe crop out the white at the very top of the sky??

AnimalRights · 26-02-2009 3:11pm

Might as well stick the knife in, :P Lovely building but the picture (PP) doesn't come and grab me.

paulkellypix · 26-02-2009 7:15pm

Personally the image itself is bland - as said earlier the sky is BLAH!

In terms of PP, I perfer 2 - although I'd reduce the blueish hue a tad.

Paul

Morrisseeee · 26-02-2009 7:32pm

Thanks for the comments........
I know the pic is a bit plain, I just took it to do a bit of messin around with HDR & Black-n-White processing.

reduce the blueish hue a tad

...this is the bit thats killin me. Where am I getting the blueish hue from, & I'm not seeing it very clearly on my monitor (or on a 2nd monitor either)!!. Is it inherrent in the original pic, as this BW was simply a de-saturation ?
/Excuse my ignorance in BW conversions....:eek:

The Mill Bridge C&C Pls

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