Castle ruins

[tigerburnie]

Dunnotttar Castle by R MAURINS, on Flickr

[Parsen66]

Re: Castle ruins

It's a lovely scene and well composed. But it needs more processing to make it zing. Lift the shadows in the foreground, darken the sky, add some clarity and lose the dot in the sky.

[tigerburnie]

Re: Castle ruins

The dot is a gull Alan

[Parsen66]

Re: Castle ruins

The dot is a gull Alan

My apologies

[Stan]

Re: Castle ruins

Agree it needs further processing - the sky is a bit washed out and foreground is in shadow. Here is a quick 30 second edit using the basic sliders in ACR - very similar to those in lightroom or elements if you are using that

highlights and whites move to left, shadows to right and a touch of clarity

Stan

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[tigerburnie]

Re: Castle ruins

I see why you've done it Stan, but I prefer my original, more light and shade, all personal choices.

[Bill53]

Re: Castle ruins

Good composition.

Bill.

[Tigger]

Re: Castle ruins

It's a lovely scene and well composed. But it needs more processing to make it zing. Lift the shadows in the foreground, darken the sky, add some clarity and lose the dot in the sky.

agree - that shot / location is where HDR would be at its best getting all the detail from the shadows, then under exposing for the sky - I think Stans edit has done the best he could with a already processed Jpeg but its a location that needs to be returned to

[Reevo]

Re: Castle ruins

It's a lovely scene and well composed. But it needs more processing to make it zing. Lift the shadows in the foreground, darken the sky, add some clarity and lose the dot in the sky.

Agree.

[tigerburnie]

Re: Castle ruins

Thanks for the comments, I have more images to have a play with.

[AlexR!]

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Tiger, agree with what has been said; great composition and the landscape is very dramatic and you have captured this well with the interplay of light and shade, but Stan's edit just adds more detail and interest whilst retaining the overall feel. But obviously a higher quality finish would be had by going back to the raw. Interested in seeing what else you captured on the day.

[tigerburnie]

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Cheers Alex, having problems with my computer at the moment, my screen image has gone huge and I'm struggling with windows 10 trying to get it back to normal, so no point trying to edit anything whilst the pictures stretched sideways, bloody infuriating Microsoft crap.
Got the swine, updates had put the "snap to" function on, fitting images to the screen, happy Easter bunny again, tempted to switch the blasted updates off as I like it like it is, not like some pimply 20 year thinks is bloody cool.

[tigerburnie]

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Castle2 by R MAURINS, on Flickr
A lot more moving of sliders on Photoshop, I'm not into the HDR effect myself(sorry Ian lol)

[Tigger]

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thats a much better image - HDR doesn't have to be about extremes its just another way to pull more from an image

[tigerburnie]

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To be honest it was the sky I was trying to get some depth into, the rest came with it as of yet, I've not tried masking stuff.