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Kurt Pas
{K:2267} 1/5/2004
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Brent,
Thanks for the comment. I defenately have to start learning PS!
Nice to hear you?re a climber too.
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Brent Mills
{K:730} 1/4/2004
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Kurt, this is definitely fixable in PS. It just needs a few adjustments. I spent about 10 mins on this one and got the result below. I made a duplicate layer and adjusted it (using curves) so that the sky was what I wanted (coincidentally the boulder itself came out pretty well inthis layer also). then I adjusted the base layer so that the grass and weeds were correct. Then I used a mask on the sky and boulder alyer in order to merge the two properly. After flattening this layer, I used a hue/saturation adjustment layer to fix the saturation problems. This only left problems with the boulder. IT was still blueish in tint and slightly burned out. So I flattened these layers and made a new color balance adjustment layer. I simply I adjusted the highlights and the shadows on the cyan/red slider so that they were closer to the red side to prefect the color (I used this more on highlights than shadows). That gave me the image that I included here. Hope this helps! Great shot originally. Being a mountain climber I especially love it. It reminds me of being on the mountains again. Nice capture.
-Brent
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Paolo Barthelemy
{K:25552} 12/22/2003
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I agree with Hermen about the solution and I agree with you about the composition: it's very well done and the shot has a very nice perspective. Furthermore, you may try to take this shot during late afternoon when lighting is softer and colors are warmer.
My best regards and greetings, Paolo
P.S. Many thanks for you kind and useful comment.
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Robert Gaither
{K:34128} 12/20/2003
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Not sure on scanner make it as big as resolution it can get they say? You can work with it in ps in channels its a lot of work through. Maybe a better scanner or scanning from film or negatives. Drum scanners are the best from what I've read. Maybe just invest in a digital camera for Christmas for they have come down in price.
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Hermen Pen
{K:9168} 12/19/2003
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I would change the settings in such a way that the scan comes out darker.
(Not sure how that can be done with your scanner / software, with my Minolta this is fairly easy to achieve though). If, with the new settings, some parts come out too dark, you can lighten them up with the 'dodge' tool in Photoshop/Photoimpact, etc. Note that lighting underexposed parts (dodging) works much better than darkening overexposed parts (burning). The dodged parts may be a bit more noisy but stil contain detail. The burnt parts will not get detail back, it simply is not in the scan anymore due to the overexposure. Good luck!
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Chris Lauritzen
{K:14949} 12/19/2003
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Sorry I ment to add also that I did use Photoshop 7.
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Chris Lauritzen
{K:14949} 12/19/2003
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Kurt,
I have used that scanner in the past and never really had any good luck with it then it finally died on me. You might want to download Vuescan (www.hamrick.com) which is decent scanner software that can help get the best out of a scanner. You might also want to consider selling that scanner and getting a better one (Canon, Minolta, Nikon?). Your scans will look tons better without having to do a lot of adjustments after the scan.
As far as what I did here, I first did an overall levels adjustment, I made sure the highlights and darkness pointers where at first peaks. Then I adjusted the middle slider (midrange) to find a good balance. I then masked off the sky and burned it in a bit to darken it. I then lighten only the foreground rock to help pull the details out.
Then I opened the saved image in Neat Image to clean up the noise in the sky and smooth out the details of the rocks.
As an added note, when shoot something like this you might want to watch the exposure as the brightness on the rock in the foreground can cause the camera to underexpose this. I don?t think that happened here but it?s something to watch out for.
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Kurt Pas
{K:2267} 12/19/2003
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Just phoned my dad,
It is a "PrimeFilm 1800u" film scanner. We used the soft delivered by the scanner. I do not know the settings anymore. But I have not much technical background in analog or digital photography. So it is difficult to hunt for the correct settings.
Nice fix. Did you use PS? What settings?
Thanks a lot.
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Anouschka Rokebrand
{K:6470} 12/19/2003
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Apart from the brightness, I think you have a very nice image here. Interesting composition.
Anouschka
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Chris Lauritzen
{K:14949} 12/19/2003
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Kurt,
What scanner and software combo are you using?
Here is a fix that I tried...
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Jose Ignacio (Nacho) Garcia Barcia
{K:96391} 12/19/2003
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stunning tones.
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Munzir Khan
{K:8} 12/19/2003
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nice colors, accurate brightness and just awesome!!!
good work Kurt Pas
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Teunis Haveman
{K:53426} 12/19/2003
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Kurt, great work
Beautiful
Teunis
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