Exceptional Day on the Bay
As usual the birds eye view was the best, except for the folks in the helicopter.
posted by dan in marin at 10:15 PM
4 comments
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
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4 Comments:
Hi Dan,
Great photo of the ship! I like the way you caught it with the fireboat sprays and the copter seemingly right above the mainmast.
May I make 2 suggestion?
+ try cropping the photo a bit at the top, closer to the helicopter - it may emphasize the juxtapostion.
+ see if you can correct the overall bluish cast of the photo. This is problem I have in my files as they come out of the camera, too. If you have a photo editor with a color temperature slider, try this: slide slowly towards warmer colors (lower temperature) until you see a reddish cast in the whites. Then back off until the cast is just barely gone (or sometimes, I leave a very slight reddish cast in)
Best regards,
SteveR
Good catch with the helicopter and the ship. Unless you intended the blueish cast, I agree with SteveR. It could use some color correction.
I like the other shot too, very whimsical with the birds on top of the heads. Too bad that one bird was uncooperative, otherwise it would have been perfect! Vignetting is very apparent on this shot. Was it added, or was it the lens?
--WT
Steve and Warren thanx for the spot on comments. Above you will see a raw image just converted to jpeg w/o color corrections. The bluish cast was my feeble attempt to reduce some of the haze and give some vibrance to the sky and water. I used split toning to do this, but obvioulsy went too far or missed the mark. Somewhere in my web adled brain, I remember there is some technique to reduce haze ( I have a UV filter on all my lenes). Anyone familiar or what you all would do?
There is an unsharp mask setting that you can use to cut haze. it works by increasing the contrast on a pixel level (i think). USM settings: 20,50,1 (from memory), for a 150ppi image.
experiment with it, and also with other techniques for adjusting contrast, levels, and color intensity, etc., but try the USM filter settings first.
--Warren
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