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These two were taken by the River Deben, leading out to the North Sea on 4 January.
Both were taken on the same settings - f.5.6, 1/80 sec, ISO 400, 55mm

Comments welcome as still learning about my camera and these are some of the first really foggy ones I have taken.

Regards
Jane

(Jan 13, 2015, 04:50)snaphappy Wrote: [ -> ]These two were taken by the River Deben, leading out to the North Sea on 4 January.
Both were taken on the same settings - f.5.6, 1/80 sec, ISO 400, 55mm

Comments welcome as still learning about my camera and these are some of the first really foggy ones I have taken.

Regards
Jane

I don't see any need for critique here Jane. My favorite is the first one.

Peter

Jane, regarding the compositions, I prefer the layout of the boats in the second and the appearance of the human figures in the first (though there's not much you could do about those!). The colour balance in both is tending rather towards blue, so perhaps I might have tried the Cloudy White Balance setting in the camera rather than Auto.

However, all of this is subjective comment - a matter of personal preference, or "To each his own" as Ed always writes!

Cheers.
Philip

Quote:These two were taken by the River Deben, leading out to the North Sea on 4 January.
Both were taken on the same settings - f.5.6, 1/80 sec, ISO 400, 55mm

Comments welcome as still learning about my camera and these are some of the first really foggy ones I have taken.

Regards
Jane

Jane, while looking at your photos again I thought I would remove the ovarall blue colour cast using the 'Remove Colour Cast' in my Photoshop Elements software - what do you think?

Peter

Only a minute between our posts, Peter!

Cheers.
Philip

(Jan 13, 2015, 06:32)MrB Wrote: [ -> ]Only a minute between our posts, Peter!

Cheers.
Philip

Philip, yes I soon began to feel unsettled about the blue cast so did a bit of post processing.

Peter

Jane, in camera settings as Philip suggests should be the first concern towards securing a good image, together with careful composing of the subject. A little post processing is sometimes required; the camera is not infallible.
Here I have lightened my previous image and also removed the portions of boats at the extreme left.



Peter

(Jan 13, 2015, 06:30)Plantsman Wrote: [ -> ]

Quote:These two were taken by the River Deben, leading out to the North Sea on 4 January.
Both were taken on the same settings - f.5.6, 1/80 sec, ISO 400, 55mm

Comments welcome as still learning about my camera and these are some of the first really foggy ones I have taken.

Regards
Jane

Jane, while looking at your photos again I thought I would remove the ovarall blue colour cast using the 'Remove Colour Cast' in my Photoshop Elements software - what do you think?

Peter

Thank you Peter. Looking at the photo again I can see what you mean about the blue tinge, your photo is much better. I do not have photoshop, but have paintshop pro so will see if I can do it on there.

Jane

(Jan 13, 2015, 06:29)MrB Wrote: [ -> ]Jane, regarding the compositions, I prefer the layout of the boats in the second and the appearance of the human figures in the first (though there's not much you could do about those!). The colour balance in both is tending rather towards blue, so perhaps I might have tried the Cloudy White Balance setting in the camera rather than Auto.

However, all of this is subjective comment - a matter of personal preference, or "To each his own" as Ed always writes!

Cheers.
Philip

Thank you Philip. I completely forgot to check the white balance setting before taking these. I will give myself a slap on the wrist. Thanks guys for your input, it is nice to know you can get help to improve. I love your photos and would like to be able to produce something like that one day. Practice makes perfect as they say

Jane

Jane, as a simple way of getting close to Peter's last edit in Post #6, but using PaintShop Pro, you could change the overall RGB colour values in PSP's Adjust Menu.

With your first image in PaintShop Pro's Edit window, click on Adjust, go down to Color, then across to click on Red/Green/Blue. Insert the values: Red 40, Green 20, and Blue 4, then click on OK. Obviously, you should experiment with those values as you wish, to get the image to suit your taste.

Cheers.
Philip

(Jan 13, 2015, 08:10)MrB Wrote: [ -> ]Jane, as a simple way of getting close to Peter's last edit in Post #6, but using PaintShop Pro, you could change the overall RGB colour values in PSP's Adjust Menu.

With your first image in PaintShop Pro's Edit window, click on Adjust, go down to Color, then across to click on Red/Green/Blue. Insert the values: Red 40, Green 20, and Blue 4, then click on OK. Obviously, you should experiment with those values as you wish, to get the image to suit your taste.

Cheers.
Philip

Many thanks for that Philip

Best wishes Jane

(Jan 13, 2015, 08:18)snaphappy Wrote: [ -> ]

(Jan 13, 2015, 08:10)MrB Wrote: [ -> ]Jane, as a simple way of getting close to Peter's last edit in Post #6, but using PaintShop Pro, you could change the overall RGB colour values in PSP's Adjust Menu.

With your first image in PaintShop Pro's Edit window, click on Adjust, go down to Color, then across to click on Red/Green/Blue. Insert the values: Red 40, Green 20, and Blue 4, then click on OK. Obviously, you should experiment with those values as you wish, to get the image to suit your taste.

Cheers.
Philip

Many thanks for that Philip

Best wishes Jane

Had a go, what do you think?