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[Tejal]

Kindly share your C&C on my following shots. I have used layers for the 1st time in processing these pics. Not sure whether I succeed in doing this or not .

Thanks - Tejal

IMG_9579 by Tejal Imagination, on Flickr

IMG_9578 by Tejal Imagination, on Flickr

[chauncey]

I might suggest that ya need to be tighter and brighter.

[Geoff F]

Looks a lot better at full screen size; but yes, I agree about a crop of #2 to reduce the amount of plain sky.

[Shadowman]

Tejal,

Were you shooting in the fog again?

[bnnrcn]

Hi Tejal Dark looking birds in a foggy scene seems a bit strange to me. Did you darken them deliberately ? I would brighten them a bit if the image was mine.

[Tejal]

I might suggest that ya need to be tighter and brighter.

Thanks for your input. I will revise the pics .

[Tejal]

Looks a lot better at full screen size; but yes, I agree about a crop of #2 to reduce the amount of plain sky.

Thanks for the feedback. Yes, I will revise it

[Tejal]

Tejal,

Were you shooting in the fog again?

It was a cloudy day. . Something went wrong in processing part. I will correct it Thanks.

[Tejal]

Hi Tejal Dark looking birds in a foggy scene seems a bit strange to me. Did you darken them deliberately ? I would brighten them a bit if the image was mine.

Hi Binnur !!! It seems processing went wrong. I have revised it and have tried to make it little better. Please share your view on this

IMG_9579 as Smart Object-1 by Tejal Imagination, on Flickr

[jcuknz]

Tegal ... I do not know what editor you have but I took your first image and opened it with an adjustment layer/curves above it and immediately I saw a problem that it didn't occupy the whole of the range of tones. I brought the black and white to where the layer was showing and the result was similar to your revised version. I believe from what Manfred has written recently this is something like organizing the black and white points in Adobe but since I do not use Adobe I cannot be more specific.

I follow this process of checking my black and white levels in most shots I take and usually following the programme's suggestion improves the shot. I often do this when thinking about shots I see here on CiC.

further tried something to hopefully explain myself better since I doubt you have my editor
placing the color picker tool over the dark wing of the left-hand bird I get a reading of 38 and off the sky 178 .... the adjustment layer corrections change this to 0-255 ... we are reading on a scale of 0-256 from black to white The correction makes the birds' darker and the sky whiter

[Tejal]

Tegal ... I do not know what editor you have but I took your first image and opened it with an adjustment layer/curves above it and immediately I saw a problem that it didn't occupy the whole of the range of tones. I brought the black and white to where the layer was showing and the result was similar to your revised version. I believe from what Manfred has written recently this is something like organizing the black and white points in Adobe but since I do not use Adobe I cannot be more specific.

I follow this process of checking my black and white levels in most shots I take and usually following the programme's suggestion improves the shot. I often do this when thinking about shots I see here on CiC.

further tried something to hopefully explain myself better since I doubt you have my editor
placing the color picker tool over the dark wing of the left-hand bird I get a reading of 38 and off the sky 178 .... the adjustment layer corrections change this to 0-255 ... we are reading on a scale of 0-256 from black to white The correction makes the birds' darker and the sky whiter

Thanks John for the information. I have done processing in photoshop. I am not so good at processing and here for the 1st time I used masking. It seems I failed in doing it properly. I will practice more on this. Thanks once again

[jcuknz]

Tegal ... I only saw your finished image, working off the original would probably be a five second job following my suggestion, in your case adjusting the black and white points, but I have forgotten how PS works if I ever really knew things like that back when I had PS. Thanks to Manfred's explanation of doing it in PS I realized what I was doing in my editor.

[Tejal]

Tegal ... I only saw your finished image, working off the original would probably be a five second job following my suggestion, in your case adjusting the black and white points, but I have forgotten how PS works if I ever really knew things like that back when I had PS. Thanks to Manfred's explanation of doing it in PS I realized what I was doing in my editor.

I will surely try John. Here is the SOOC shot :

IMG_9579 by tejalmewar, on Flickr

[Shadowman]

I will surely try John. Here is the SOOC shot :

IMG_9579 by tejalmewar, on Flickr

Original looks more interesting. If you plan to work on monochrome conversion, consider only working on foreground area, leave the sky as is.

[Tejal]

Original looks more interesting. If you plan to work on monochrome conversion, consider only working on foreground area, leave the sky as is.

Ohh...this is looking cool. Let me also process the colored version also. thnaks a lot for the input

[bnnrcn]

Hi Binnur !!! It seems processing went wrong. I have revised it and have tried to make it little better. Please share your view on this

The tones look more balanced in your revision, it is better


IMG_9579 as Smart Object-1 by Tejal Imagination, on Flickr

[bnnrcn]

SOOC looks nice too, good idea to edit the color image too

I will surely try John. Here is the SOOC shot :


IMG_9579 by tejalmewar, on Flickr

[bnnrcn]

Tejal, I suggest that you shoul read the tutorials of CinC under the title 'Tones and Contrast'. Here is the link. They are very useful to understand curves and levels in PS

https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/ph...-tutorials.htm

[Tejal]

Tejal, I suggest that you shoul read the tutorials of CinC under the title 'Tones and Contrast'. Here is the link. They are very useful to understand curves and levels in PS

https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/ph...-tutorials.htm

Oh that's great...!! Thank you very much Binnur .