Seeing through car window!

[Ashwin]

Hi Ali.,
I am little bit unorthodox, I dont note down I am doing for correction, my hand just move and it is finished within no time.,
If you know cooking., and U R preparing some good dishes., you dont have to measure all the required ingrediantly., your hand will pick every thing in right proportion, and you have delicious dish ready...

anyhow, next time i will be careful to note down this may help others

thanks

[Alis]

Hi Ali.,
I am little bit unorthodox, I dont note down I am doing for correction, my hand just move and it is finished within no time.,
If you know cooking., and U R preparing some good dishes., you dont have to measure all the required ingrediantly., your hand will pick every thing in right proportion, and you have delicious dish ready...

anyhow, next time i will be careful to note down this may help others

thanks

Good enough, Ashwin. If you do not remember what you did, probably it was nothing crazy, just the regular stuff done in an artfull manner (which is easy for me to reproduce except for the artfull part ). I was just curious to see if there is any crazy thing people know that I might not know, like USM with a radius of 200 @1% .

Thanks, again.

[Alis]

Hi Ali.,

BTW, you have been here for two days and you already know my name! Good job

[KentDub]

Thanks, Kent! For 29 second, it is actually very good .

But seriously, it is very close to what Ashwin came up with but his is a bit brighter which can be achieved with yours too I guess.

If you compare them side-by-side (or better, overlay them), you'll be able to see into the car a bit more on the higher-contrast version. Now that I look at the picture again, I noticed a green color cast from the glass on the car (look at the color of the bricks through the rear windshield. Removing 1/2 of the color cast (We don't need to fix the rear windshield), should restore a lot of the color to the skintones.

While it always comes down to personal preferences and intrepetations, I found it interesting that you ended up with four completely different approaches:
1. Dave did his in an attempt "as if" to remove the effect of the windshield completely, and thus increased the contrast pretty dramatically
2. I did mine to about 1/2 of what Dave did - I increased the contrast, but wanted it to still be noticable that it was a windshield, favoring a natural (in my opinion) look
3. Ashwin looks like he took a different approach, and did global adjustments and aimed to correct for the faces.
4. Will went 180 from the rest of us and salvged the image by making it more artsy (b/w conversion, with IR effect)

Even with all of these different approaches, if you overlay them with the origional they all show improvement. While this image will never have the refelections completely removed, this is a great concept in practice that even shots with "issues" can be improved upon, and sometimes even salvaged.

The more I look at it, the more I want to give it another 29-second makeover!

[willgoss]

Oh well...I thought I should at least look at Topaz Details to bring out detail.......sure a lot of ways to chase improvement....didn't take time to cleam it up.....from the opiginal used Topaz Details, Denoise and Adjust....

[Ashwin]

Good enough, Ashwin. If you do not remember what you did, probably it was nothing crazy, just the regular stuff done in an artfull manner (which is easy for me to reproduce except for the artfull part ). I was just curious to see if there is any crazy thing people know that I might not know, like USM with a radius of 200 @1% .

Thanks, again.

Hi Ali,

Correction is not always globally, it depends on your requirement, you wanted printable
image...in Photoshop I simply copied image on another layer, and with QUICK SELECTION TOOL selected the glass reflection area except leaves, feathered it 5 pixels
and copied that selection on another layer, changed mode of this layer to screen
again made copy of this layer and changed mode from SCREEN to SOFT LIGHT, thereafter I quick selected two faces and some level control, & colour corrcted by adding little red and some yellow,
on the right side of the image it lacks detail in shadow portion, so I simply selected IMAGE > Adjustment > Shadow/Highlight .. I changed amount to 30, and all is done..

If you want further corrction that is details in other parts it can again be done quick select the portion and with level control increase little constrst as required, I have done this in this picture hope you will enjoy the procedure.... I missed one step, I could have selected background bricks and could have colour corrected to match the wall brick colour... it did not take me more that 30 seconds to do all the above steps... except above five steps I have done nothing... no USM or any
other thing.

If you have PS, try steps as suggested here and you will have very good printable image ready for PRINT within no time....