Arthur's Seat - Edinburgh - at dawn.

[stellarbeam]

First time in this subforum. Took these this morning. Editing was done in camera raw. Fiddled with the white balance and on the purple one fiddled with the tint slider as well. I know they are not great but it's my first time attempting these sort of shots. The square one is like that as I plan to use it at some point as a backgroud for text on a website possibly.

Any ideas how to make the sky smoother? it seems a tad noisy.

 

[arclight]

Like them a lot - really do.
Personally I'd crop a bit off the bottom of number 2.

 

[joescrivens]

for noise reduction i use Noiseware professional, works a treat

 

[VinnyB]

I love #1 but not too keen on #2 as I dont like the tint and feel that the black is almost wasted space but if have done it for the reason to add some text then I'm sure it'll be different as it would no longer be wasted.

 

[stellarbeam]

for noise reduction i use Noiseware professional, works a treat

Thanks. I'll have a look into that.

I realise that the crop on the 2nd one is odd, but it's as I'll be adding text at some point. It's actually had a portion of black added onto the image to make it like that. But yeah, I agree as a photo it doesn't really work.

 

[steve172]

Nice photos, but agree that #2 could do with cropping out the lower part.