Gold Afternoon Fix

[starriderrick]

Comments are welcome.
# 1 10mm ~The original.
# 2 10mm ~ A zoom resize,crop,levels enhanced +clone tools applied to remove shadows.
# 3 ~ A cool light play capture.
# 4 ~ A color balance shift.


Your thoughts ?
Rick

[trog100]

one and two yes but three and four no cos even postage stamp size the quality isnt there..

trog

[shutterman]

I like #2, but the building seems to be tilting away. Nice colors!

#1 is pretty cool to, but the shadows in the bottom take away from everything else.

[yogestee]

Rick,,have these images been scanned off Kodak Ektachrome??

Jurgen

[starriderrick]

No Yogestee,
These were taken with a Nikon D80 / Sigma 10-20mm /a nikon circ.' polar II filter.
When the images are resized from 3872 x 2592 to 640 x 480 the quality is lost.Image # 2 at full res. is stunning.

Do you like ? The Sigma has some edge distortion at 20mm,(building tilt} I could easily fix {with lense correction tools} in Capture NX,I was being lazy.

Rick

[livin4lax09]

i personally think #1 is the best but it needs to be tweaked with curves to bring back some of the detail in the darks.

[Ronnoco]

i personally think #1 is the best but it needs to be tweaked with curves to bring back some of the detail in the darks.

That would certainly not help with the distortion problem in the lines of the building which remains a problem with number 1.

Ronnoco

[Ronnoco]

I like #2, but the building seems to be tilting away. Nice colors!

#1 is pretty cool to, but the shadows in the bottom take away from everything else.

There is still less distortion in the building in #2 than there is in #1. #1 has more distortion as well as more of a shadow problem than #2.

Ronnoco

[Mr Yuck]

I like the #1 crop and the #2 colors and levels.


Very cool building and area, though I love the rich sky in this shot, I'd like to see it at other times of day.

[livin4lax09]

That would certainly not help with the distortion problem in the lines of the building which remains a problem with number 1.

Ronnoco

And this is exactly the reason why I find it interesting.

[EOSThree]

I like number 1 the best also, and agree that the shadows need some work. I don't mind the distortion in the buildings lines, it adds interest, the corrected lines in #2 aren't nearly as interesting.