Waves of Wilma

[ThomasT]

Hey guys I just got done edit this one I think it turned out okkk but I still need some help on it can anyone tell me what I can do???

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1mWTpd4guKj9JxhySyFMWVUBRzIbl90

Thomas

[jazzfisher]

Thomas,
I played with levels---& took out some of the cyans & blue out of the colors levels, contrast & sharpened.

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1XGhoLrh7PnNTDhgjcCONmYJF0vlx1

[ThomasT]

Its looks good sherry, but......I still isn't what I was shooting for... No offense or anything it looks good but still it just needs something..

Thomas

[jazzfisher]

Thomas,
No offence taken, what are you trying to do?

[GaryK]

Thomas

I find when I take a pic that lacks "something" (lots of those) :D

I try different crops and filters and stuff to learn more about the program.
sometimes, I get lucky, and things turn out really good, sometimes just so so.

One thing about playing with the crop is, it helps you visualize better for next time..if I had of put that buildng here or that person there or had more sky and less land or visa-versa.

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1ZfCng3KP3ED8rxl9GdIfDtrjeuiBV

Not outstanding... but interesting and a bit different.

I should have straightened it first :oops: :oops:

[ThomasT]

hmm Very Different... I tried and I got it as close as I could because straighten and crop doesnt work too well....


Thomas

[Pauline]

Well here's my version

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1BePnMLq78SfsE4SL8h5mT2PuCIwu0

I still don't like the 'baby blue' quality to it. It was just too much for me. But then taste is personal.

[michoumisalade]

I don't know what color are the stones. What do you try to do? more calm? more dramatic? looking like a nice sunrise before the storm or after?
This is my version:

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=17rUIwYtgoL5H3YjngAwOjrQb6cA51

[ThomasT]

Sunset and that sunset is from a different picture that I cropped out I wanted to go go along with the picture itself....You know how it casts those colors....

Thomas

[Pauline]

Sorry Thomas. It's just not working for me. It just looks "fake" and no matter what I try the colours look wrong. None of these are technical terms, it's just a feeling. :cry:

[michoumisalade]

Pauline,
the way I did mine is to make many hue/saturation layers masks: one by color you wish to modify for different working areas of the pictures. The smoothness can be done in playing with the % of opacity where colors merge themselves.

I made the same but with the grey stones rather ochre stones:

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1uMxUVxgV8L3fZFnLRd7GITCh43Pf

BTW Way to go! Great that your pictures were chosen for magazines. You rock! :D

[Pauline]

Thanks Michoumisalade.

I also did a copy using hue/saturation masks, but still didn't like the way it turned out. It's hard to tell whether that is beach sand (clumpy) and should be ucre, or rocks as you suggest. I think the pastel looks is what is really turning me off. Sorry Thomas!

Now I must go and visit some elderly people with my dog!! We missed last week and if I don't exit now, another hour will go by!!

[Wendy]

Well I couldn't get it to look right either ... so I drifted off into playing :)

... here is mine: :) :)

click here (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1qxaDvnxY4lbvVMQ3XdlOzFK8iu2J1)

Wendy

[michoumisalade]

Wendy: love this one, great montage!

[Jodi Frye]

Wendy that's totally brilliant !

here's mine

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1LKtxp0PduSjPFNflVO7YD6BpZiLr

[Pauline]

:lol: Well Thomas, I guess you now know what you have to do! This is no longer just a photograph, but it's turned into a creative challenge. Wendy great job!! The silouette really took my mind off those pastel colours!
Jodi, yours was also a great idea. I am done playing with this one though. It's time to move on to other things.

[Wendy]

Jodi ...

Oh I like that ... what a great idea :)


Wendy

[ThomasT]

Lol Wendy I love what you did... Thats kind of what I was hopeing for. Jodi yours is well lets just say interesting... lol just kidding thank you guys for the helpp!!!


Thomas

[Wendy]

Thomas ...

... now its your turn to do something creative with it :)


Wendy