Thoughts on scanned oldies please

[jmorgan]

Took this one in 1980 odd and recently rediscovered it. Scanned in off a slide and touched up the blemishes. Either Cadr Idris or Aran Fowddwy, did both that weekend. Anyhow, just having got photoshop impressions, how far do you go and what makes for a good scenery. Have to dig out the others and see what they are like.

PS, on a Minolta sommit or another.
[pic]http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y225/400se/Cadridriscopy.jpg[/pic]

[beano500]

jmorgan said:

... how far do you go ...

Honestly, as far as you like. Very subjective thing and what works for you isn't necessarily everyone else's thing!

For example, make the background look more misty! Give it a warm evening/morning light glow!

jmorgan said:

...and what makes for a good scenery.

Well, know the rules and then break them!

Don't have your horizon through the middle of the image, use rule of thirds, some sort of focal point, low noise/grain, natural colours or strong B&W.

Now break one or two and see if you come up with something more dramatic!

[te51cle]

I'd try cropping top and bottom to give you more of a letterbox shaped image. Try cropping at the bottom so that you remove most of the black lump of rock at the bottom, then see about removing half of the sky at the top. After that try changing the mood through a change of colour as beano suggests. Burning-in/darkening the edges of the photo would help too.

The trick is to convey an impression of the feeling you had at the top of the mountain instead of recording a snapshot of what you saw there.

[jmorgan]

Ta. It was morning and it is that misty on the original. I only removed spots etc, not played with levels etc yet. So mucking about with cropping can sort the horizon through the middle etc......hmmm. More playing then.

Cheers.