Date:   8/14/2007 9:20:51 AM ( 17 y ago)
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On that particular image fix I posted. I thought that was a particularly nice image so I did a little more complex "correction" where I cloned the image 3 times and did specific individual corrections separately for the sky, the mountain and the reflection. I then combined them using layers and masks. That would be too complex to explain and teach specially since you're not familiar with Photoshop.

If you wanted to mess with your images yourself and make global adjustments using some of the generic image manipulation programs pretty much all your images would improve a good bit by adding more contrast and saturation. If the program you are using has a way to darken the midtones you could play with that a little then do your contrast and saturation adjustments. I'm a pro so for me I can look at an image and tell right away what it needs and what/how to do it but that comes with years of experience and I can do it fairly quickly. I shoot all my stuff in RAW format and do the bulk of my adjustments in the RAW converter.

Most cameras have menus where you can  tell it to add more contrast and saturation and from what I'm seeing in your outdoor landscape situations your particular camera could stand to globaly increase both the contrast and saturation so in the future you could play with your cam settings first. Also in the conditions that you are shooting in the higher altitudes and around the ocean there is an abundance of UV light and or reflected blue light which will give your images somewhat of a bluish cast or cold tone appearance so check you cameras menu in the "white balance" and see if it has a "cloudy" setting. That will compensate for the UV/bluish cast and give your landscape photos a nicer warmer tone. In the old analog film days many landscape photogs would almost always use a "warming" filter(81A) on their cameras all the time. The best way to check it out what the different settings do in your particular camera is to do some side by side tests and find the one that works best for your particular camera. Each MFG uses their own levels of adjustments so you're just gonna hafta "play" till you find what works best for your cam.

In the analog days you'd hafta make notes and write down the frame numbers and all your camera settings etc but now with digital all your camera settings are recorded with each picture. This is called the EXIF data and most  thumbnail viewing programs that come with the cameras will allow you to view this info so it makes muuuch easier to do tests and compare images. Most generic viewer apps will let you read the EXIF data too.

Anyways if you have some particular images that you are specially fond of, post the original files somewhere I can download them and I'll put some of my "special sauce" ;+D on them. I got pretty fast DSL and FTP large files regularly for clients.











 

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