Boeing 747 over Duxford, England

[Francois]

.... and boy did he get LOW !!!
The display of this 747 crew was awesome.....

Unfortunately yhe weather let us down (UK, of course, I know).... and it got pretty grey.

I loved the contrast between the 747 and the old plane (a Moth?)..... but I guess some CS2 wizzard could do something more with this picture .... I am not a wizzard of any kind yet :dunno

http://fssupport.smugmug.com/photos/35559919-L.jpg

Any suggestions appreciated !!! :):

Francois

[Richard]

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I loved the contrast between the 747 and the old plane (a Moth?)..... but I guess some CS2 wizzard could do something more with this picture .... I am not a wizzard of any kind yet :dunno
Any suggestions appreciated !!! :):

Francois Great shot, Francois. :thumb The first thing that occurred to me is that this is a pretty good candidate to experiment with the Lab color correction technique that Rutt has discussed in this thread (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=18308). So I decided to try it out. Here's the result:

http://rsinmadrid.smugmug.com/photos/35562871-L.jpg

I skipped the sharpening step as your version seemed sharp enough. I gave it slightly more yellow to bring out the grass a bit. Looking at it now, I think I went too far with the yellow. I also cloned out the wing tips on the lower right, which seemed to add little.

I'm not sure that all this really made that much of a difference. What do you think?

Cheers,

[Francois]

That's great Richard. I didn't think of taking the wing and that other little plane out.. that is good ! (I already 'cropped' it from the original, where there was more grass in the foreground and more of the wing to the right).

Already sharpened it too, a bit.... but the lighter tones are good.

I was thinking of trying to replace the sky with a much darker one, so the 747 would be more emphasized.... But I am having trouble making a good mask... still learning :cry

Thank you for your help !!!

[davev]

How does this look to to you?

http://www.pbase.com/image/49178425.jpg

[Francois]

Yeah that's nice Dave... I was trying something like that. But I must get to grips with the 'selection tool' I think. I could not get the 747 'freestanding' without ugly edges. Tried the Magnetic Lasso and the maggic wand, neither of them gave me the desired result.

Is it a matter of more patience and fiddling with them longer !? :dunno

Thanks for the help !

[Raz]

Hi!

I learned some masking tricks here:

http://www.russellbrown.com/tips_tech.html

Check out the last tutorial (Advanced Masking).

Oh, and I prefer the grey sky. It gives a better UK mood...

Raz

[Francois]

Thanks Raz !! :thumb

[gus]

Hi!

I learned some masking tricks here:

http://www.russellbrown.com/tips_tech.html

Check out the last tutorial (Advanced Masking).

Oh, and I prefer the grey sky. It gives a better UK mood...

Raz
Thanks for that link Raz...i cant get enough info on the hidden powers of CS2.

Gus

[Raz]

Glad I could be of service.

Raz

[USAIR]

Good 747 shot
Really like the old and new in the photo
How about taking out some of the sky between the planes ...make them look closer http://www.digitalgrin.com/images/smilies/ne_nau.gif

Thanks
Fred

[Francois]

Hi Fred,
yes, I thought about it too..... for now I left it like this because originally I used the photo for a poster, where I put text in between the two aircraft.. that worked quite nicely.
I'll experiment some more with it next week.... (still doing my CS2 'classes' :): ).

Thanks for your suggestion!
Kind regards,
Francois