10-17-2012, 10:52 AM
Since there hasn't been any topics in the past 24 hours I thought I would get people's opinions on a recent shot I took. I took a first shot at processing this photo and decided to mute the colours but wasn't too happy with the results. After some feedback I went fully monochrome and then did a little bit of photoshopping to make the leading line of the road more pleasing.
Firstly, Which do you think is better? I think I prefer the muted colours of the first but like the composition of the second better. However I am not a fan with such an amount of editing. Which leads me to my second point
How ethical is this amount of photoshopping? Where do people generally draw the line?
1) Sort out exposure, perhaps touch colour cast but no more
2) As above but with a dose of sharpening and noise reduction
3) Some basic cloning out of distracting elements, moving birds, dust etc.
4) Major moving of large elements
5) Even more extreme, lets turn it up to 11!!
Anyway, on to the photos!
1:
![[Image: 8072080920_5b1d7c9227_b.jpg]](http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8177/8072080920_5b1d7c9227_b.jpg)
2:
![[Image: 8095012102_efa638ee87_b.jpg]](http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8053/8095012102_efa638ee87_b.jpg)
Thanks
Allan
Firstly, Which do you think is better? I think I prefer the muted colours of the first but like the composition of the second better. However I am not a fan with such an amount of editing. Which leads me to my second point
How ethical is this amount of photoshopping? Where do people generally draw the line?
1) Sort out exposure, perhaps touch colour cast but no more
2) As above but with a dose of sharpening and noise reduction
3) Some basic cloning out of distracting elements, moving birds, dust etc.
4) Major moving of large elements
5) Even more extreme, lets turn it up to 11!!
Anyway, on to the photos!
1:
2:
Thanks
Allan