the Arch

[madigg]

Well, here goes, my second try! I will have Photoshop CS tomorrow.. So any ideas? I think get rid of the line the goes through the photo.. not sure how to!

[Dee]

Well, here goes, my second try! I will have Photoshop CS tomorrow.. So any ideas? I think get rid of the line the goes through the photo.. not sure how to!

You've got your choice of the "clone" tool or the "patch" tool for that one!

[erich6]

I don't think the buildings are an effective frame for the arch. You're blowing out too many highlights on this shot as well. Try exposing for the highlights next time and use Photoshop to push up the shadows as needed. Or you can bracket exposures and combine later.

Erich

[rutt]

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/37155766-O.jpg


Shadow/highlight to unclog shadows a bit and recover sky details
http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/37155787-S.jpg
LAB symetrical curve steepening. Same A and B. See: http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=18308
http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/37155783-S.jpg
http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/37155785-S.jpg
Straighten and crop a bit


I leave the wire to you. Once I made it pop, the wire bothered me less.

[Umbro]

Just been playing with your image, hope you don't mind.

I did some adjustments to the whole image in S/H to gring back the buildings ( i find the preview box a great help when doing any adjustments to an image and keep flicking quickly between the 2 )

I still thought the buildings needed "warming up" so i selected the sky with the magnetic lasso, feathered the selection by about 5 pixels ,then selected inverse and layered via copy to just select the buildings. I then chose the 81 warm up filter ( cant remember what blending mode i selected?) and played with the density in that.

I couldn't really do a lot with the sky in the image as it seemed a little unnatural , probably to do with the shrinking of the file for the web, ( if you'd like to e-mail the original i'd be glad to have another go)

Cloning out the wire is pretty straight forward. All that's needed is a bit of practice. When i started i used to make a copy from the origianl file, open that in PS and just play away( knowing the origianal's safe and sound)

Hope this helps and happy PS'ing