Hi Dexter :) I quite like this photo, I'm digging the desolate atmosphere! I hope you don't mind but I did a really quick and dirty edit of your photo to show what I'm so bad at explaining. I basically just cropped the left and bottom, played a bit with the exposure and contrast and added a ND grad filter to it.
Hi Paul! Thanks for putting time into giving it a quick edit. I'm digging the crop, I'll have to have a play around with that. I also think I need to calibrate my monitors as my original looks much lighter on my ipad than at work in comparison to yours. Cheers!
I recently did some muddy weather photos and converting them to black and white was not especially successful. Paul has offered a quite workable solution in this case. The basic trick I feel is to lift the mid tones and to drop the shaddow tones a bit. Then add either an ND grad or a darkening vigniette to play to the atmosphere. In this case, if you choose to crop to a wide aspect ratio then the grad will work better than it might in a full frame version.
Make sure you calibrate your monitor, or you are just wasting your time, and use adjustment layers, ideally or work on a copy of the original. So you retain all the quality if you change your maind after the edit
Hi Dexter :) I quite like this photo, I'm digging the desolate atmosphere! I hope you don't mind but I did a really quick and dirty edit of your photo to show what I'm so bad at explaining. I basically just cropped the left and bottom, played a bit with the exposure and contrast and added a ND grad filter to it.
Hi Paul! Thanks for putting time into giving it a quick edit. I'm digging the crop, I'll have to have a play around with that. I also think I need to calibrate my monitors as my original looks much lighter on my ipad than at work in comparison to yours. Cheers!
I recently did some muddy weather photos and converting them to black and white was not especially successful. Paul has offered a quite workable solution in this case. The basic trick I feel is to lift the mid tones and to drop the shaddow tones a bit. Then add either an ND grad or a darkening vigniette to play to the atmosphere. In this case, if you choose to crop to a wide aspect ratio then the grad will work better than it might in a full frame version.
Make sure you calibrate your monitor, or you are just wasting your time, and use adjustment layers, ideally or work on a copy of the original. So you retain all the quality if you change your maind after the edit
Thanks Ian!