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Postby adame on Thu Sep 21, 2006 10:31 pm

Just started to go through all the pics i took on our recent road trips from Adelaide- Great Ocean rd - Adelaide Trip and though i would post a couple from the first leg of our trip....... Adelaide - Halls Gap - Lorne

Thankyou in advance for sharing your thoughts.

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Postby Bindii on Thu Sep 21, 2006 10:47 pm

I love the waterfall shot...very nice indeed...I would maybe give it a small touch of contrast to help it 'pop' though.
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Postby NJ on Fri Sep 22, 2006 2:26 pm

with the last shot of the waterfall, because it is lacking a lot of colour, i would try making it black and white and adding more contrast or playing with shadows/highlights levels. just a thought.
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Postby adame on Fri Sep 22, 2006 9:48 pm

Guys tried a couple of different effects on the waterfall pic.

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Postby adame on Sat Sep 23, 2006 9:57 pm

Actually looking at the last picture its a much much better representation of what the colors were actually like, so so green.... much happier with that.... thanks for the advise guys.
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Postby NJ on Sat Sep 23, 2006 11:28 pm

i think the b&w did help, but the boosted colour version i think has a bit of a green cast to the whole image, but the colours are much better :)
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Postby adame on Sat Sep 23, 2006 11:54 pm

Actually i though it looked a touch more natural as the original seems to have a blueish tint to it on my monitor...... the water in the pic seems nice and white in the rewored pic :D
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Postby Pa on Sun Sep 24, 2006 4:14 am

hi adam i like the reworked image to me it looks more natural.
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Postby Bodak on Sun Sep 24, 2006 8:11 am

Re: "Waterfall image"

I've reworked your original to give the image more pop and vitality which I think all version so far are lacking.
I'll put it up for comparison if you wish.
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Postby adame on Sun Sep 24, 2006 9:26 am

Stephan that would be Great. :D
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Postby Bodak on Sun Sep 24, 2006 9:34 am

My Take:

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Hope you find it more alive.
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Postby adame on Sun Sep 24, 2006 9:44 am

Thats a definite improvment...... what adjustments have you made?
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Postby Bodak on Sun Sep 24, 2006 10:16 am

adame wrote:Thats a definite improvment...... what adjustments have you made?


Adam, it is a bit hard to go into everything that I do as I tend to fiddle and fart about until I get what I think is to taste..
Also I am not aware of your expertise with Photoshop CS2.

For the colours I have used selective colour and adjusted them to taste, in this case the yellow,green,cyan and blue.

On the bright sky I used the shadow/high light filter to drop the sky tone down making sure that this adjustment
was on a seperate layer as I need to mask off all areas other than the sky.

On a separate layer again I have used brightness and contrast to add light
to the foreground and waterfall selectively masking off some of the effect to the left and right middle ground.
What I was trying to do was add detail (with light) through the middle of the image and up the waterfall leaving
the sides darker to form a tunnel for the eye to follow.

Hope this helps a tad, but seeing it done is the real way to understand what I'm trying to explain.
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Postby adame on Sun Sep 24, 2006 10:25 am

Awesome, yep i can work my way around CS2. thats great Thanks :D
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Postby adame on Mon Sep 25, 2006 7:10 pm

Ok i think this is my final rework on this image, really happy with the way it turned out thanks guys.... will be hanging on my wall in a matter of days :D

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Postby ado_civon on Wed Sep 27, 2006 2:20 am

i really like waterfalls

i read through the topic posts and well the final waterfall is a much more improved version of the original shot....... well done.

Its not all lost if the original didn't turn out after all..... you've got yourself a nice photo that could be even framed.........
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Postby Rainey on Wed Sep 27, 2006 10:26 am

Wow, that photo saw a few stages and came out looking really fantastic, well done!
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Postby adame on Wed Sep 27, 2006 11:17 am

Thanks guys, it's being printed this week, should be framed and hanging on the wall next 8)
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Postby Justin on Wed Sep 27, 2006 12:04 pm

Sheesh I just caught up with this thread - that final version of the waterfall is fantastic, this is probably the best example I've seen of what some skills in photoshop can allow you to do with an image!

Adame - to round this out can you share what you did to get the final result?
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Postby adame on Wed Sep 27, 2006 1:27 pm

Yep definetly.

OK I reproscessed the RAW file being much more caefull to keep as much highlight and shadow detail in the finall .tiff image as possible. I actually had to reduce the contrast in My Raw software then adjusted the exposure compensation to suit.

Took the resulting tiff into CS2 where i adjusted the Color balance, and curves. Also i added a gradient fill layer to remove some of the glareyness from the upper part of the image.

Hmm as far as i can remember thats about it, i should really have saved it as a Photoshop document so i could see all the steps that i took :roll:

I just get lost in what i dooing in photoshop and find at the end of an image i have actually completed about 50 more steps than i can remember. :D

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