Photoshop and Lightroom - a touch too far?

I take it that this is a comp of a Hawk over a sky?

If it is, I can't tell, although at 1024px it's hard anyway.
 
Its a nice shot and a great aerial view of the aircraft but nfortunately the image is underexposed.

Can I suggest that the first change you make when you bring an image into photoshop is to do a levels/curves correction to set a white point? You can correct the exposure most of the way in Lightroom but I find the additional control of Photoshop good to get it perfect. Correct exposure is in my opinion 80% of making images 'pop'

I have recently created a couple of video tutorials which should help you to recognise and correct underexposure in photoshop:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReQgUtJwmb4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43wScHdr3Gc
 
Personally I would like to see more detail on the belly of the jet, it looks a bit dark to me but I'm no expert.
 
specialman said:
I take it that this is a comp of a Hawk over a sky?

If it is, I can't tell, although at 1024px it's hard anyway.
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The only composite element is the water mark. The image was shot over Wales last Friday at about 1530.

alexnail said:
Its a nice shot and a great aerial view of the aircraft but nfortunately the image is underexposed.

Can I suggest that the first change you make when you bring an image into photoshop is to do a levels/curves correction to set a white point? You can correct the exposure most of the way in Lightroom but I find the additional control of Photoshop good to get it perfect. Correct exposure is in my opinion 80% of making images 'pop'

I have recently created a couple of video tutorials which should help you to recognise and correct underexposure in photoshop:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReQgUtJwmb4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43wScHdr3Gc
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2nd tutorial was really interesting. I guess I can use the LR Curve Tool in a similar way?

I'll have a look reprocessing this image again tomorrow.

Thanks for posting!

Regards,

Cheesy
 
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I found the tutorials both informative and professionally presented, many thanks, Alex.

If you have more to share, I for one would be most appreciative.
 
John1964 said:
Personally I would like to see more detail on the belly of the jet, it looks a bit dark to me but I'm no expert.
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You should be able to get a bit more detail on the underneath by careful use of the "Shadows/Highlight" tool - Image > Adjustment Shadow/ Highlight - using just the shadow section - an adjustment of 10-20% should be enough to give more detail.

Thanks for sharing the photo from a perspective not normally seen by land based photographers. (y)
 
Cheesy said:
The only composite element is the water mark. The image was shot over Wales last Friday at about 1530....
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Aaah, right.... when you mentioned doing a fair bit of photoshoppery and it looking 'real', I naturally assumed you were playing around with a couple of shot :)

With that knowledge, I'd say that the image doesn't shout that it's been PPed - in fact, it look pretty regular TBH, up to your usual standard, but nothing jumps out as being processed aside from what's been said about detail on the underside.

What did the original, unedited shot look like, just out of curiosity?
 
The original suffers from the problem of a multitude of reflections in the canopy. These were all removed in PS3.
 
sorry I find it under exposed too :shrug:

Can be saved in Photoshop


Les (y)
 
Like the recent air to air shots; good composition and PP.
Do I see some vignetting in #2, more evident than #1, or is a trip to SpecSavers called for? Not sure the effect adds to the end result in my opinion (for what it's worth!).
 
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