Calgary from the Jewish Cemetary....

[casil403]

Holy HDR blue cast Batman!

Casil do you have software to isolate the lower half of the image (everything below the city) and then drop the blues out? HDR is horrible for making shadows blue and learning to correct that afterwards sure helps.

Nice images though ... I like the 1st one the best for the leading line of the path taking us to the city. Really like this composition!!

Levelling looks good to me in the 1st but the 2nd may be dipping a tad to the left.

Thanks...I have no idea how to do these things...remove blue casts.
I have PSE7 but I just end up mostly confused and frustrated when i use it. i don't find these progams particularily user friendly.

[casil403]

Here's one with a different HDR program used.....
Blue seems to be gone.....I actually like this progam a bit better than Photomatrix.

[JAS_Photo]

Casil in PSE7 go to Enhance > remove color cast or Enhance> color variations. If you make a duplicate layer you have the ability to make it partially transparent which will make your changes more subtle. Or you can dump the whole layer if you don't like it and start again. Don't forget to flatten layers when you are done.

[Marko]

These are nice casil - I prefer shot 2 and i favour your second version of it. That shot still slopes slightly to the left. (slightly). Shot 1 slopes to the right (slightly)

Just curious what program did u use for the second version of shot 2?

[casil403]

I used Dynamic Photo HDR. I find it to be much more friendly and variable than Photomatrix.
I still haven't leveled them quite right yet...been having some huge vision problems lately and what to me seems level doesn't quite seem so again after looking at it.

[casil403]

Used the leveling tool in Lightroom to level it now.

[kat]

I don't know..but it still doesn't look level to my eye

What are you using to make it level?

[Mad Aussie]

Desaturate the blue?

Yes but without taking it out of the sky.


Leveling this one is tricky Casil because of the flat elements of the graves etc. But they could be on sloped ground.

The tops of the buildings however will be level so I'd choose a couple of buildings that have flat tops and drag a line down in PS or use LR to level to those.

[casil403]

I give up.......
I think I like it the way it is...thanks.

[Mad Aussie]

Hey Casil ... I just copied your images into PS for a look at the leveling.

That last one is slightly off ... dipping left.

BUT .... that 2nd image in the 1st post ... is close enough to perfect! Only a frag out.