A window on the river

[Seb]

Here is some architectural experimentation on ruins.

Taken right this morning with THE 17-35mm Nikkor zoom.

Please criticise.

Seb

[Old Timer]

Here is some architectural experimentation on ruins.

Taken right this morning with THE 17-35mm Nikkor zoom.

Please criticise.

Seb

Good concept and well executed. My only nit on this image is I would like to see a little more detail and color in the sky portion. The stream tends to lead you eye upward toward the sky and than you are kind of lost without any detail to focus on. Nice eye as usual. Gotta love that 17-35mm beaut of a lens.

[Seb]

Good concept and well executed. My only nit on this image is I would like to see a little more detail and color in the sky portion. The stream tends to lead you eye upward toward the sky and than you are kind of lost without any detail to focus on. Nice eye as usual. Gotta love that 17-35mm beaut of a lens.

Hello Old Timer,

Thank you for commenting. I to am concerned about the sky. I need to learn how to work with layers in photoshop. I know that there would be a way to adjust the sky without touching the rest of the image but I am clueless regarding how to do it.

The 17=35mm zoom (unfortunately!!!) isnt mine. I just rent it for the week end and I don't feel like giving it back anymore lol!! My Tamron look like a toy in comparison.

Seb

[Chunk]

Hello Old Timer,

Thank you for commenting. I to am concerned about the sky. I need to learn how to work with layers in photoshop. I know that there would be a way to adjust the sky without touching the rest of the image but I am clueless regarding how to do it.

The 17=35mm zoom (unfortunately!!!) isnt mine. I just rent it for the week end and I don't feel like giving it back anymore lol!! My Tamron look like a toy in comparison.

Seb

This is a nice composition. Since the sky is the brightest area in the shot you can probably just use curves or a curves adjustment layer on the whole shot to bring out more detail in just the sky. This shows the Paintshop pro adjustments dialog but PS should be somewhat similar. First put the point I labeled A to keep the darker areas of the shot from changing. Because of the way PS handles curves you may have to use two points close together. Then pull down point B to cause the brightest input levels to be spread down into the darker output levels. It's kinda fun to see the effects curves adjustments have on a pic. Play around with getting negative slopes for some bizaar effects.

[SmartWombat]

Here is some architectural experimentation on ruins.
Taken right this morning with THE 17-35mm Nikkor zoom.
Please criticise.
Seb

Can't criticise it
Can criticise the weather, looks flat grey dull light.
Even a Nikon can only work with the light that's there I guess.

[villenadecorte]

Hi Seb,
This is a great subject to shoot. I think I would have liked to see a little more DOF to the window.
I agree with Chunk on the settings to correct the sky...
Otherwise, great shot!

VillenaDeCorte

Can't criticise it
Can criticise the weather, looks flat grey dull light.
Even a Nikon can only work with the light that's there I guess.

[Seb]

Hey guys,

Thank you for the imput.

Chunk: I gotta try levels asap. Thank you for the PaintShop Pro grab that you have included here and for the detailled explanation.

SmartWombat: Thank you for your comment. Actually, I didn't expected the 17-35mm zoom to achieve miracles. The lighting wasnt optimal. I was mostly excited to have such a piece of gear in my hands. It is by far the finest lense that I have personally used.

Villena: I am not sure to see what you mean here. Would you like a more blury foreground or the opposite??

regards

Seb

[PuckJunkey]

Really cool idea Seb. The only suggestions I have are to crop about 30 pixels or so off the bottom and right, and maybe 15 px off the top. That and I'd probably try to push the saturation a bit with curves and see what Highlight & Shadown could do to improve the contrast. Otherwise though I really like the mix of architecture and landscape. Very nice composition and perspective.

[villenadecorte]

After letting my eyes adjust to the windows closeness to the viewer, I find that I like it better now. I initially felt that the depth to the window was too shallow... but now I feel it really compliments the picture.
Great stuff!

Hey guys,





Thank you for the imput.

Chunk: I gotta try levels asap. Thank you for the PaintShop Pro grab that you have included here and for the detailled explanation.

SmartWombat: Thank you for your comment. Actually, I didn't expected the 17-35mm zoom to achieve miracles. The lighting wasnt optimal. I was mostly excited to have such a piece of gear in my hands. It is by far the finest lense that I have personally used.

Villena: I am not sure to see what you mean here. Would you like a more blury foreground or the opposite??

regards

Seb

[Seb]

Penny: Thank you for commenting. I do like the dof I got out of this lense too!

Chunk: I tried to find curves in Photoshop, unsuccesfully... I use PS Element 2.0
Would the curves be an exclusivity of the full version?? Anyway, I went for Plan B as I used the magic wand to select the sky and I worked it's levels and contrast without touching the rest of the picture. I managed to recover details in the cloud but the sky appears hopeless. It is nearly solid white both on the original and on my second take...
Bottom line, I will reshoot this shot at another time of the day to get the proper lighting.

regards

Seb

[Chunk]

Penny: Thank you for commenting. I do like the dof I got out of this lense too!

Chunk: I tried to find curves in Photoshop, unsuccesfully... I use PS Element 2.0
Would the curves be an exclusivity of the full version?? Anyway, I went for Plan B as I used the magic wand to select the sky and I worked it's levels and contrast without touching the rest of the picture. I managed to recover details in the cloud but the sky appears hopeless. It is nearly solid white both on the original and on my second take...
Bottom line, I will reshoot this shot at another time of the day to get the proper lighting.

regards

Seb

I don't know anythingabout PS Elements, I hope someone else will answer that.
I'm not too worried about the sky being white as long as you get detail in the clouds. The Picture has a lot of strength due to its overall composition and depth, a lot of what we suggest is fairly minor. I think sometime we lose the overall feeling of the moment by trying to make everything perfect.