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This is a discussion on landscape touch ups within the Critiques forums, part of the Photography & Fine art photography category; Hello, I've been working on touching up a shot I took in Panama, but to be honest I really have ...

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Mick O\'Tighe landscape touch ups 09-03-2009, 10:42 PM
Iguanasan This is my take on it. I... 09-03-2009, 11:33 PM
Mad Aussie Have you put the before and... 09-03-2009, 11:52 PM
Mick O\'Tighe ah! good catch lol. I had... 09-04-2009, 12:11 AM
Mad Aussie Looks like you fixed before... 09-04-2009, 12:11 AM
Mick O\'Tighe interesting... I took some... 09-04-2009, 12:49 AM
JAS_Photo I really like Mad Aussie's... 09-04-2009, 01:13 AM
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    Hello,

    I've been working on touching up a shot I took in Panama, but to be honest I really have no idea what I'm doing and am basically fumbling in the dark trying to find what looks good. Here are the before and after shots of what I have come up with thus far. I'm especially not sure what to do with the person in the shot, if anything... he just seems to blend in to me... Any feedback suggestions would be extremely appreciated!
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    This is my take on it. I think if you ask 10 different people you are going to get 10 different answers

    Unless you really want that person in the photo then I would crop them out. Try to look for the "photo within the photo".

    I cropped, straightened the tower and cloned out the antenna and boosted the shadows (all with Picasa). My result is here (I hope you don't mind, it's easier than explaining sometimes)
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    Have you put the before and after shots? Or did you accidently put up two before shots? I can't see a difference.

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    ah! good catch lol. I had originally uploaded a large-ish file, spotted the file size limit post, and when I re-uploaded I must of put up two of the after shot... fixed now, original and processed are there.

    Iguanasan, good idea... I'll mess around with cropping it.

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    Looks like you fixed before and after thing now ... it was abit dull looking to begin with I see.

    In the meantime I decided to have a crack at what was there so I used the after version to create what's below. Hope you don't mind.


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    interesting... I took some inspiration from that and tried to make the grassy area and person have more of a 'glow' and seem a bit unreal, and I like the change. I also tried cropping... I like it, but not as much as the full shot, something about the wideness of the sky around the tower I like. Oh, and I don't mind any attempts at editing it you make, in fact I insist and appreciate the effort to help!

    Current version before I hit the sack:
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    I really like Mad Aussie's idea and your interpretation but depending on your taste, you can go the opposite route and make everything supersharp and contrasty which gives the look of an illustration or photo realist painting.
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    Gotta work tonight so I'm out of time myself now but tomorrow I might have another crack with a different crop and technique and see what I can do.

    Not bad Raiven ... not bad.

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