Thought I'd share

[docevi1]

some pictures as I haven't for a while (well in my own thread anyway).

I went out last night and took these and am not particulary sure on some of them. It was a bit of a rush job as I was out to enjoy a drive & had work to do when I got home again.

like this one, but do the barriers not pull your eyes away from the car? Although this one is dark, I do like it

[_Dobbo_]

docevi1 said:

some pictures as I haven't for a while (well in my own thread anyway). like this one, but do the barriers not pull your eyes away from the car?

I don't think the fence is a problem - but to my mind it would look better if the car was in the center of the road (ie so there was a gray strip either side of the car)

docevi1 said:

Although this one is dark, I do like it

I refer you to the advice the great Matt "nomoregravy" - on how to get detail out of an underexposed area whilst keeping the sky intact:

nomoregravy said:

This bodge took literally 10 seconds. > open photo in photoshop >press ctrl + J to duplicate layer >select duplicated layer and change layer mode to "screen" using the drop list next to the opacity slider >add layer mask to duplicated layer >select layer mask and fade it out sharply into the layer below using the gradient tool, to keep the perfectly exposed sky.

[docevi1]

_Dobbo_ said:

docevi1 said: Although this one is dark, I do like it I refer you to the advice the great Matt "nomoregravy" - on how to get detail out of an underexposed area whilst keeping the sky intact: nomoregravy said: This bodge took literally 10 seconds. > open photo in photoshop >press ctrl + J to duplicate layer >select duplicated layer and change layer mode to "screen" using the drop list next to the opacity slider >add layer mask to duplicated layer >select layer mask and fade it out sharply into the layer below using the gradient tool, to keep the perfectly exposed sky.

Wow.

I might have a longer play later - PSP doesn't have a gradient tool like PS does

[_Dobbo_]

What I would do in PSP is use the lassoo (sp?) tool to select all the image which isn't sky (which is what the camera has exposed for), then feather that selection for (say) 15 pixels.

Now follow the same procedure - new layer, screen, slide the slider to taste.

I've had a rough and ready go at your web version gives this;



from this

[docevi1]

wow! I must admit I prefer the darker version there it shines and glistens a bit more, but certainly can see the benefit of fiddling!

Thanks for that

[BrianisHHC]

Pretty good set. Like 34 and 35 myself.

On the others it just feels like your too far away.

[docevi1]

BrianisHHC said:

Pretty good set. Like 34 and 35 myself. On the others it just feels like your too far away.

Thanks

You haven't seen the paint work on the Marlin tho have you