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Chris Lauritzen
{K:14949} 10/8/2003
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Daniel,
Everyone else took a stab at this so here is what I did. I burned in the highlights, I dodged the mans coat, shadows, building and anywhere else I though it needed it. Then I did a curves adjust and introduced a negitive curve to help flatten out the image. My final step was to to a brightness and contrast adjust to my liking.
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Thom Stevenson
{K:132} 10/7/2003
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Ha! I just knew he was fighting the wind even before I scrolled down to your caption. Nicely done!
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K
{K:221} 10/4/2003
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THANKS LISA ...I KNEW THERE WAS AN OPTION LIKE THAT ..YET DID NOT KNOW THE KEY STROKE THAT WILL HELP..THANKS AGAIN
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Lisa Paully
{K:1735} 10/4/2003
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I recently learned a new trick in ps and it works great. If you hold down ctrl/alt/shift and the tilde (the key to the left of the 1) it selects all of the highlights in the image, hit ctrl j to put it on its own layer, then select the multiply mode for that layer and it darkens only the highlights (if it needs more duplicate the layer again and lower the opacity a bit as needed). If you have an image where the shadows are to dark you can inverse the selection of the highlights go to your original layer and ctrl j again and change that mode to screen. saves alot of time trying to dodge/burn. hope it helps.
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Becky V
{K:9699} 10/4/2003
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The best way to be selective in adjusting exposure is using either a dodge tool (for shadows) or a burn tool (for highlights) in PhotoShop. But be forewarned: both tools are calibrated somewhat roughly and will sometimes give you a bad-looking result. Using soft brushes with 10-15% opacity will minimize the damage.
However, having a lot of experience with over-exposed photos, this is my conclusion: it's better to underexpose than to overexpose. Slight underexposure is easier to coax detail out of in PS than overexposure. Once the detail is blown out, you can't really get it back. It's a lot like distorted audio - you can make it quieter, but it's still distorted. If detail is underexposed, a dodge tool can usually recover it.
As for the photo - I quite like it. The composition is great and there's some really nice depth happening there. I don't think the highlights are too, too bad, but if they really bother you, then perhaps you could get stylistic with it. You could darken or blur the entire background a great deal and leave the man as is. Just play with it and have fun.
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Daniel Taylor
{K:3495} 10/4/2003
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I actually really like this image, and can't find much to critique. The highlights are a little too strong, but this may have been a case where there was just too great a contrast between highlight and shadow to get it all on film. Maybe underexposing by 0.5 or 0.3 stop would have achieved the balance you wanted.
But you have a very interesting composition and managed to make a "plain" street look very good. I look at your photo and feel like I'm in the city. Good job!
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Mário Sousa
{K:16985} 10/4/2003
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excellent photo street
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m.c. lopez
{K:14766} 10/4/2003
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Philipe is rightbut go ahead with shots like this one, please !
...another Ebel !!! Rhonda will be jealous !
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K
{K:221} 10/4/2003
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YEAH I GET THAT ..IVE TRYED IT YET I DONT LIKE HOW THE SHADOW THEN OVER TAKES THE IMAGE..
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Philip Coleman
{K:1628} 10/4/2003
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use the curves in photosshop to reduce the effective exposure and increase the contrast and remove the harshness of the shadows a touch
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