Re: Sharing some work - a couple of ideas

Douglas,

Thanks for your feedback on these.  I am using elements 3, so I should be able 
to go in and make the corrections.  I originally did not detect the red cast on 
the door, but you are the 2nd person to point it out.

JE Hayes
Los Angeles, CA



-----Original Message-----
>From: Douglas Sharp <douglas.sharp@xxxxxx>
>Sent: Oct 22, 2006 10:29 AM
>To: jeh50@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: Sharing some work - a couple of ideas
>
>Hello, Joseph
>I must agree with Sonny on all these points, but I would add that the 
>shot with the blue door could do with a slight touch of perspective 
>correction, after correcting the slight cast - the colours and contrast 
>aren't quite Greek enough for me, try removing some red and picking the 
>white point with the eye-dropper in "levels" just to the right of the door.
>I would like to see the original of the Greek Temple too, I'm not too 
>sure that tinting it was a good idea.
>The Blue Mosque  has some pretty severe vignetting, I ran this through 
>PTLENS and it sorts it out quite easily, try auto levels and then adjust 
>contrast and brightness a little (if you are using Photoshop brightness 
>-24 / Contrast +24) then a slight perspective correction (I used DCE 
>Tools perspective correction from Mediachance - it's easier to use than 
>Photoshop, you can download an unlimited trial version at Mediachance)).
>The Roman Cistern I corrected in the PS-Elements option for adding and 
>removing colours.
>On all shots I applied some sharpening with Focus Magic - one of the 
>best sharpening programs there is (reasonably priced too)
>
>I hope you don't mind my playing around a little with your shots, they 
>may not be the actual colours you saw when you were there, so just think 
>of them as a guideline for where you may want to be - I did  these 3 in 
>Photoshop Elements 3.0 (just to show that it works in the simpler 
>Photoshop versions too, not just in CS2) with the plug-ins I mentioned 
>above.
>Nice to see some new work in the gallery - keep it up.
>Greetings for Hannover
>Douglas


=========================================================
To Unsubscribe: Send email to leica-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in 
the Subject field. The acknowledgment that you then receive MUST be replied to 
per instructions. You may also log in to the Web interface to unsubscribe.

Other related posts: