A few Walkways for C&C

zdooldreb

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CabanSail

I can see what you are trying to do & like the lead in to each picture.

They both look to be way over processed to me. The sharpening is too much & there looks to be colour shifts from applying contrast. The highlights in the second image looks well burnt out.

What technique are you using for processing?

Borderfox

Good potential but needs different processing

zdooldreb

I used levels and hue/saturation. I always tend to go a bit heavy with the sharpening, need to learn to ease off
I posted the orginals on pix. I was having dificulities with exposure as it was in the middle of the day and sunny.
It would be great if someone wanted to have a go at processing them and let me know what they did. Im new enough to PS.
In the second one I was going for in-focus in the foreground and blurry/dreamy in the background.

Morrisseeee

Yeah, it doesn't need that much sharpening or contrast, tip (from experience and reading other advice) on sharpening: when all your edits are done, resize your image to the required size,
ie. the DPI value (say 96dpi for the internet)
then pixel width (say 1500*1000, or whatever),
then......go to the Filter > Unsharp mask > pick a value like 150% or 200% and start the other slider at 0.2, then increase this slider while looking at the 100% viewer until acceptable sharpness is achieved !!
/I hope all this makes sense !

CabanSail

I always apply the Unsharp Mask at 500%, but do so through a mask as demostrated by Guy Gowan.

smelltheglove

As above with the sharpening, I always love walkway and road way shots, theres almost somrthing mystical about them but I am not getting it with these, they are great shots, well composed, just the processing has kept that attraction away.

If it was me I would soften, I would also chose an area that you want to be the centre of attention with a high level of feathering, invert and then fo a slight gaussian blur and maybe increased contrast and that should make them more magical! One that always springs to mind and has been a favourite shot of mine for quite some time is a roadway shot taken by Yogibear last year at some stage.

djd80

I like the idea of them definetly. Just goes to show how different two people can process a shot. I took practically an identical shot to yours but we both ended up with different shots as you can see below

zdooldreb

Very nice dar_d, must be a popular place

zdooldreb

I tried processing again. I think they are bit better. C&C again please.

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AnCatDubh

the originals seem to be gone. would it be an idea to reinstate to allow people compare?

zdooldreb

****, I deleted the first ps'd shots from pix. I have uploaded them again but now I cant update the links in the original post. I have added the original ps'd (NOT GREAT) shots to this post. If the mods could add these links to the original post it would be great:cool:

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