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11/19/2004 10:10:31 PM · #1 |
Tried to get the perfect picture, but I got this.
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11/19/2004 10:18:49 PM · #2 |
As far as i understand this shot with a digital camera is only possible by taking two pictures, one metered by the sky, another one metered by the dark walls, and glueing those together in an image editor. With film, i understand you can find film that would be able to expose the whole range from bright sky to the dark walls correctly, but not with digital. As it is, the overexposed sky and the tower at the end are not very appealing.
Otherwise, it's not really clear what this picture is about. If it's about an alley with something in the end, then the angle of the shot is pretty weird. I assume though, you wanted to take a picture of the tower, but it only takes a tiny part of the picture and it's overwhelmed by the dark and massive walls of the buildings on both sides of the street. If you wanted to present that tower as light at the end of the tunnel of sorts, again the walls dominate.
And of course, personally, i hate centered composition, but that's just me, some peple like it.
All personal opinions, all subjective, i'm not a pro by any account. hth. |
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11/19/2004 10:23:35 PM · #3 |
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11/19/2004 10:24:24 PM · #4 |
Looks like we've been to the same place ;-)
Message edited by author 2004-11-19 22:27:49. |
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11/19/2004 10:26:51 PM · #5 |
| I like the vertical shot more and there is no overexposed sky, but the building is still too bright, and there is a piece of wire that just crosses it out... perhaps that place is just not a good place to shoot that tower from. |
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11/20/2004 12:26:27 AM · #6 |
| I took this photo in Malta, I think, can't remember the name of the street. |
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11/20/2004 12:44:01 AM · #7 |
One thing you can try--if you shot it RAW you can use exposure compensation to create an underexposed version and a properly exposed version and then combine them. That is in fact what I did here:
You can buy a PhotoShop action which makes this less work (because now I do it quite often): Fred Miranda's DRI. It's a good compromise way to enhance your dynamic range capabilities.
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11/20/2004 01:08:14 AM · #8 |
Originally posted by puma:
Tried to get the perfect picture, but I got this. |
You might try Image/Adjustment/Shadow-Highlight in PS CS. I used 50% and 10% and got a pretty good result which lightened up the walls and darkened slightly the tower n the background. Don't have time to post it but it's easy to duplicate. Good luck. |
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