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Taken at a local train station this morning (no staff to tell me off)

Barrie. Absolutely brilliant. How many times have we wallked over things like this without a thought. And the PP treatment is spot on too. I love your work.

Nice...

Can I ask what PP you've done? Looks a bit warm to me.

greencardigan wrote:Nice...

Can I ask what PP you've done? Looks a bit warm to me.

I like warm

Burnt the sky in - to get more cloud detail back (single exposure only)

desaturation + curves adjustment to give it that orange/brown look

Nice Barrie... typical of the good work we've come to expect from you !!!

Nice to see how well our public transport system is be utilized?
Great shot, I love the treatment.
IMHO You could almost make two shots out of this. your current one and an even tighter horizontal crop to the base of the building. Just having the coloured dots disappearing.

well done.

good use of leading lines with the little dot thingies.

Steve

Fantastic! Like this heaps.
Alex

Hey Pharmer,
awesome shot, love the composition and the colours.
Looks like you and I dont mind laying down in the dirt to get the shot.
Just one tiny reccomendation....(you missed the sky at the right of the image under the roof, it doesnt match the rest of the sky).
Otherwise like stated, great idea, well done.
Marty

Marty wrote:Hey Pharmer,
awesome shot, love the composition and the colours.
Looks like you and I dont mind laying down in the dirt to get the shot.
Just one tiny reccomendation....(you missed the sky at the right of the image under the roof, it doesnt match the rest of the sky).
Otherwise like stated, great idea, well done.
Marty

Thanks.

Me lying down, no way! Camera was on the ground and me standing up with the remote

There was no sky detail under the roof to burn in (white) and I didn't want to clone or manually colour it

Pharmer I like this shot, the clour and composition work for me. I do how the yellow would look contrasted by a nice blue sky when the weather is more favourable

Hi Pharmer,
I too love your work. Can you tell exactly what you mean by "burnt the sky back in". I am still learning how to use PS and I have a few photos where I want the sky at a low exposure and the rest of the shot at a higher exposure. Any tips on how to do this?

suzanneg wrote:Hi Pharmer,
I too love your work. Can you tell exactly what you mean by "burnt the sky back in". I am still learning how to use PS and I have a few photos where I want the sky at a low exposure and the rest of the shot at a higher exposure. Any tips on how to do this?

Suzanne - you can only get detail back in the sky if its there, all I did was use the burn tool to darken existing detail (my ground and sky was quite well balanced)

If however you have "blown highlights" - thats another issue. The detail is effectively gone forever.

In my photo, you can see a small white portion on the right hand side is "blown" - I could not bring any detail back

You generally have a couple of options for balancing sky and ground in high contrast situations

1. Underexpose the whole image to retain highlights and then bring the shadows out in PS or Nikon Capture

2. Shoot multiple exposures at different settings and then merge them in PS (manually using layers and masks) or using the Merge to HDR function (CS2)

Anyone else care to chime in?

Superb image.
Your an inspiration.

I'm impressed, great shot.

Barrie
Great concept and well executed.

Great shot! Welcome to Lego-Land!

Did you lie down on the platform, or did you use and angle-finder or zigview?

Cheers
Steffen.

You've got a fantastic eye for shots that many of us would otherwise miss, plus fantastic control of wide angle shots. Great shot, the treatment is excellent as well

Steffen wrote:Great shot! Welcome to Lego-Land!

Did you lie down on the platform, or did you use and angle-finder or zigview?

Cheers
Steffen.

Camera on the ground, remote release in hand

rooboy wrote:You've got a fantastic eye for shots that many of us would otherwise miss, plus fantastic control of wide angle shots. Great shot, the treatment is excellent as well

Thanks Patrick, sometimes it's hard to be inspired by whats around you, so you start looking for new angles on common things.

Cheers

pharmer wrote:Thanks Patrick, sometimes it's hard to be inspired by whats around you, so you start looking for new angles on common things.

Yeah, sounds so easy...

Cheers
Steffen.