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G'day All,

Well I went and did it.........I got meself the canon 350d.....

The sad thing is I have been too busy to get out and give it a good go..........but it will come with time!

Any way to this post........... I took a landscape snap and I am worried about the difference between the LCD on the camera to that of what comes out on my monitor.
There is a lot of lost detail between the two. I have noticed while checking out pics on the web that I am missing some detail some times as I can not always see what people are talking about! (if that makes sense) I have tried to calibrate my monitor only to be happiest with where it is now.

Could someone please play around with this pic to bring in some detail to the foreground..........I would love to get an idea of how bad my monitor is!

This is the pic straight out of the camera only sized down


thanks for any help
cheers Russ

I tried to add a brightness/contrast layer with a mask made from the inverse of the greyscale image.

Oh not work!

Thanks Adam........ :/ it would be great to see it..

This one I just increased the brightness +58 and this is close to how it looks in the camera.......it's a big difference to on my monitor!

i think this is it
lol

Looking at it again, mine seems to have lost a lot of detail in the clouds

Here is my try.





Edit:: Oh! forgot to say congrats for your new camera

Here's a 'pommie' effort ... from a Pentax owner

I used layers so that I could deal with various sections of the picture separately. Foreground lifted using shadows/highlights and also the exposure tool (in CS2)

I also brightened up the sky a little so that it merged better (hopefully) with the lifted foreground. Flattened the image and finished off by applying a touch more saturation. That's the gist of what I did - can't remember exact setting - sorry.



Pommie .... oops

I meant

Polly

Very nice try Polly. Nice to see you back

Thanks everyone,

I can see the foreground in all the pics and have got an idea of how much detail I am missing on my monitor, this helps me out heaps!

Irma, the new camera is great.........its fantastic to have more controls at my finger tips, all I need now is to learn how to use them..

Cheers Russ

Congrats on the new purchace Russ. I think Polly did an excellent job. Not to take away from anyone elses efforts.

Wow Pol... long time no see!! Where have you been?

shuttertalk Wrote:Wow Pol... long time no see!! Where have you been?

Hello ST, I haven't been very far away actually - just over the little pond pottering about in the Northern Hemisphere

Each board I use has a different 'thrust' to it so I tend to come and go from various forums. I also suffer from 'forum fatigue' from time to time and so I clear off and step back into RL for a while and contemplate the universe from the garden bench or wherever.

Hello there to you too, Irma. I'm waving in your direction so stop stroking Lucky for a moment and wave back at me! ^^^^^^^^^^ (that's a wave)

Pol

Petographer Wrote:Congrats on the new purchace Russ. I think Polly did an excellent job. Not to take away from anyone elses efforts.

Thanks Peto - but I must admit some of the tools in the CS2 upgrade help make the task quicker and easier.

There's a nice "exposure" tool which can be used to tweak an entire jpg or just a small selection - neat tool imho. Handy for making small blends and corrections near joins - if you follow what I mean.

I've had the upgrade for about a couple of weeks now and I'm finding some of the new tools very useful.

Pol

^^^^^^^^^ Hi Polly

Hey, will you share some of your pictures? How about your street photography? Do you have something to share? I'm sure you have, I'd love to see your pictures

Irma.

Irma Wrote:^^^^^^^^^ Hi Polly

Hey, will you share some of your pictures? How about your street photography? Do you have something to share? I'm sure you have, I'd love to see your pictures

Irma.

I don't have much actually, no more recent street pix either. It hasn't been very good weatherwise for ages and when it was half decent, I've been crawling looking for various wild flowers aiming to get shots mainly for my own interest... not really the sort of thing that has popular appeal.

I've also been messing about experimenting with a recently homemade extension cable switch, hoping to get some close-up of birds but haven't got anything remarkable - except flat batteries in the camera and flashgun.

Polly

Here is my version. I may have gotten it too light. I learned Photoshop by rote, so just go by my eye and my monitor color which I have calibrated several times (you get something different every time you calibrate -- my experience -- so I pick what I like best of the different results).

The sky in the first version was priceless. I tried to conserve that exactly but used simple dodging to brighten the foreground.

I did a second one, trying to preserve the dark sky, and used the wand selection tool and feathering between the ocean/land part and the sky, and then lightened the sky a little, and then chose inverse and lightened with luminosity the buildings and land, and sharpened that part a little. This is my second try:

I like your second try, Claire - very nice - it maintains the forboding look of the sky and has a "realistic" light quality on the ground.

Thanks - I love Photoshop, and recently got a Canon 20D and took advantage of the offer for Photoshop CS. It really does have some good features for improving photographs, and I can see why it is supposed to be geared toward photographers (I am an amateur myself, trying to improve(.

It has rained so much around here that I hesitate to take my new camer out. Went on a pontoon boat party this weekend and took a small digital camera, and did have to get it into the bag several times as the water was splashing up into the boat. Those pictures were good snapshots, but possibly not good photography, altho they turned out good, and I did have to use Photoshop on a lot of them as it was real hazy and humid at times.

Stay dry, Claire - I will be in South Carolina for 10 days starting on Sunday - so I hope the weather is better by then.