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[Edwin Harvey]

I'm curious Antonio, how did you do this & can it be done in Elements 9? Nicely edited by the way.
Cheers.....Edwin.

[Antonio Correia]

I'm curious Antonio, how did you do this & can it be done in Elements 9? Nicely edited by the way.
Cheers.....Edwin.

Hello Edwin
If Elements 9 has layers - and I think it does (in fact I just confirmed and it does have that possibility) - I made another layer via copy (Command+J or Control+J) and changed the blending mode to Multiply.
I then changed opacity at wish and made a mask for the foreground to "see" what was underneath.
A bit contrast and brightness and that's it !

[Antonio Correia]

My previous post 249 is not what I am usually advising people to do: to have something in the foreground to give depth to the image.
It doesn't mean - in my point of view - that this assertion is not valid but that sometimes things also work the other way.
The image I post here in another one of these. It does please me as much as the previous one, the one with the fog I mean.
As a side note: this photo was taken with a 20D and the 70 200 f/2.8 L IS USM @ 153mm which means 153*1.6 = 245mm focal lens f/4.0 and 1/1600 s
Such lens used at this point and even further make us to see the landscape with other eyes.
Have you ever tried ?

[pritcharded]

Antonio
At the time I had in mind the dictum 'less is better - frame out unnecessary detail'. But your suggested change is clearly a superior composition. I should have taken the time to try a couple of other camera angles myself! Thanks for taking the time to consider it.
Cheers, Ted

[arith]

9 hours work trying to straighten this out; so don't laugh.

The Round Church, possibly the oldest church in Cambridge.



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[Donald]

9 hours work trying to straighten this out;

'fraid it still looks round!

[arith]

'fraid it still looks round!

Sure does; I think the problem was to do with it not being straight, verticals may not be vertical and edges to windows are in a dome. But I did find out I can extend edges using the smudge tool.

I thought you was having a laugh; but lenses, especially wide angle lenses introduce distortions which can be corrected in processing. Normally you rotate, straighten verticals and horizontals but also barrel and pin distortion as well as skew and bending.

By straightening I meant correct lens distortions which in this are very difficult to do; but when you do it looks better.

cheers for listening.

[Nicola]

Sure does; I think the problem was to do with it not being straight, verticals may not be vertical and edges to windows are in a dome. But I did find out I can extend edges using the smudge tool.

Steve,
probably I've not understood what's your goal,
but i like very much the way it llokks round!
if only the candelier will be a bit higher (and over the white wall) and the top roof isn't cropped out...

[Nicola]

Steve, your shot make me remembering one of my...
what do you (all) think of it?
it's a 'stolen' one, since in that church cameras are forbidden, so I pointed my 50D with 17-40 at 17 without looking in the viewfinder but handling the camera at the same level of my belt... without firing flaash for sure!

thanks for C&C!!!


Golden Age

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[arith]

Yours is very nice Nicola; all I mean by straight is to be perspectively correct. This is usually easier to do because of vertical and horizontals giving something to line up on. cheers it is a very grand place you have.

[Nicola]

Yours is very nice Nicola; all I mean by straight is to be perspectively correct. This is usually easier to do because of vertical and horizontals giving something to line up on. cheers it is a very grand place you have.

ok, I understand what you mean.. it's not easy to reach in your picture! but I like it and I'll try to emulate it!
thanks for appreciate my own, but that church (San Marco cathedral in Venice) is spectacular in any photo I think.. it's all a gold mosaic..

[Nicola]

Hello Edwin
If Elements 9 has layers - and I think it does (in fact I just confirmed and it does have that possibility) - I made another layer via copy (Command+J or Control+J) and changed the blending mode to Multiply.
I then changed opacity at wish and made a mask for the foreground to "see" what was underneath.
A bit contrast and brightness and that's it !

hi Antonio
i'm studying your good work about my picture...
I would like to ask you... perhaps it's a too general question... and perhaps I 'll be able to answer myself after a little..
anyway, managing contrast (also with LCE) and saturation will not leads to the same goal?
I'm going to investigate...
bye and thanks!!

[arith]

Steve,
probably I've not understood what's your goal,
but i like very much the way it llokks round!
if only the candelier will be a bit higher (and over the white wall) and the top roof isn't cropped out...

I like your bike shots, especially the top one Nicola, it is an amazingly atmospheric shot.

With regards to my old church, I only had a 17mm widest lens on a cropped camera, getting closer and looking up loses a bit in my view but I agree about the light over a white part, moving away just gets the dome obscured by an arch.

A wider lens or wider sensor is what is needed but I am like the church mouse.

[Vandenberg]

Rotterdam early in the morning

[arith]

Very nice morning images

[Letrow]

The Bokkedoorns, a dune landscape near Zandvoort. Freezing cold and not too much light. I was trying out my Nikkor 105mm.

[Antonio Correia]

Antonio
At the time I had in mind the dictum 'less is better - frame out unnecessary detail'. But your suggested change is clearly a superior composition. I should have taken the time to try a couple of other camera angles myself! Thanks for taking the time to consider it.
Cheers, Ted

Ed
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@ All
I try to drop some lines about every image posted here as "responsabel" for this thread I started.
I kindly ask you people to post one image at the time because at this rhythm I can't go because I just don't have the time to.
Thank you for your comprehension
And besides this, if you post one image at the time people has more tendency to comment than 2 or 3 in a row.
Thank you again

[Antonio Correia]

...The Round Church, possibly the oldest church in Cambridge

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Thank you Steve for posting here I mean again
Your image is nice and of course it looks round. I think Donald was just pushing your leg, weren't it Ronald ?
What stroke me at once was the bluish light you have there which could be corrected.
On the other hand apart from small adjustments in framing I do like the image.
What do I mean for small details ? Well, for example you could have got the chandelier over a whiter area for example.
And if you have the opportunity just don't care very much about straightening the lines. If the dome is round, take advantage of it and enhance it not, disguise.
Something like: If you can't beat your enemy just joint him.

And: if you can shoot in there place your camera on the ground just underneath the chandelier (on it's vertical) and make a shot with the timer. I think you will like the result. Move your camera to the right, left, whatever and repeat the process.
Innovative points of view.
Example here

But I like best this one here
(both shot in India)

[Antonio Correia]

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Good work Nicola
You were lucky but you did it. good.
Nothing to say. I like it because it is very dynamic and the church is very nice ...
Thank you ... etc

[Antonio Correia]

Rotterdam early in the morning

The usual Vanderberg. The usual good and coherent work
The only but is the small tree at the right.
Am I nuts or I have seen here two images a wile ago ? It must be the age...
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Music on the background from your site in another window. I will go and have a look later.
Thank you etc.
There must me something not going right here about the images you have posted. I see two on the text but one in "real"