A Winding Road

[AquilaEagle]

I took this on our "Wooly Bollard Tour" of the Highlands in Scotland back in September. Not cropped or anything. Would be interested in your comments :)

http://www.thephotographyforums.com/albums/album113/IMG_0008.jpg

[Venomator]

:Ponders: Good shot with great depth and a lovely place to take it ... lack of foreground interest maybe ?

[digitalfailure]

It's a nice image, if a little flat.

A little Ps work might pep up the colours and give it a warmer feeling.

apart from that, it just needs my car blasting down :driving:

[GfK]

Just to add to whats already been said - it appears that the horizon is 1-2 degrees off level.

[CT]

I've seen this shot before Ian, and I like it as you know. It's a good shot, nicely composed with the horizon on a horizontal third. I really like the way the road changes angles and carries your eye into the distance. Some foreground interest would have really added to the great feeling of depth and alleviated the rather empty foreground.

It would really come out with some good editing. You might get lucky if one our landscape geezers get tempted by it. :)

[AquilaEagle]

Thanks folks. I agree, it needs something in the foreground, but at the time the coo's were over to the left somewhere! :D

Here is is with the colours auto adjusted.... ?

http://www.thephotographyforums.com/albums/album113/Winding_Road_Coloured.jpg

[Arkady]

A good place to start, needs some tweaking though. Darken the sky about 80% for a start and do something with the saturation.

[matty]

i would have a go at it in a similar way to Kencos processing, the image is ok but the light on the day let you down, give some 'ken' and make it stand out!

[AquilaEagle]

How would I darken the sky in CS2?

And what should I do with the saturation, erm and how? :D

[AquilaEagle]

what is kenco processing?

[matty]

what is kenco processing?

search for user Kenco1974(i think) and look at his shots, somewhere he says what hes used to get the effect..(not much help am i, lol)

[KenCo]

search for user Kenco1974(i think)
Thanks that makes me feel 10 years younger!

[matty]

ah here he is, tell him Ken! (look, its early ok?)

[Arkady]

There's several ways - one is to select the sky area and make a second layer from the selection, then darken through levels or curves.
Another is to make another layer and add a graduated tint (17% grey or something) and adjust the opacity of the layer til it looks right.
Or a combination of the two.

There's really no one 'right' way of doing things in Photoshop - there's at least 5 or 6 ways of doing almost everything - personal preference comes into it a lot.
In fact there's as many ways of doing things as there are photographers, as we all do things slightly differently.
Experiment and find what works best for you.

[AquilaEagle]

Thanks, Arkady, I just needed a pointer to start me off - I'll play :)

[KenCo]

I'm in no way saying this is the correct way to process your pic, just the way I do things. So all I did was to auto levels and colour, small amount of shadow and highlight, adjusted gamma (in exposure) by +3 selective colour black +1 and neutral+3, brightness and contrast -3 & +3...then sharpened. All in cs2. Working on an image this size though is hard as it's only 34kb.
http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/1247/img00088yb.jpg
Hope that helps a little.
Ken.

[AquilaEagle]

Cheers Ken, I will have to follow that slowly using the original, which is much bigger :)

[KenCo]

Sharpening....I always use the save for web action downloaded from this site....think it's in the tutorial section by Matt. (TPFAction). I'd also straighten the horizon.;) :)

[Boon]

looks so much better now, just add one of those nice black borders to it, and shazzam, its done.
stevannie