Week One Process:
Tweaked exposure and offset slightly.
Added a little more white into the levels mix.
Increased saturation.
Smart sharpen, edit with pin light.
Linking up with Captivate Me!
March One Four Challenge Week One
Week One Process:
Tweaked exposure and offset slightly.
Added a little more white into the levels mix.
Increased saturation.
Smart sharpen, edit with pin light.
Linking up with Captivate Me!
Turtlemoon Impressions 
Gorgeous, Janis!
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Thanks Donna – it’s a gorgeous beach at dusk!
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you defiantly got some early evening tones in the image will be interesting to see the future edits this month. The sky is a bit noisy and that might be an area to be careful of when sharpening.
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Yes, it is a dramatic sky! And your point is well taken!
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Lovely original image. I wonder whether the sharpening and increased saturation could be lessened a little as the image on my screen seems a bit grainy now. But it could be my screen….
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The sharpening was not great, minimal actually.The original is pretty grainy. It’s a point and shoot digital so I have no control over shutter speed adjustments and such which is especially useful in such low light situations, but I work with what I have. Maybe there are some post editing tricks in PS I don’t know yet that could help?
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I like how you pulled out the evening tones is your edit. I look forward to what you do with your next edit.
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Thanks Kirsten! I’ll be interested too…I have no idea what I’ll do next!
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lovely reflections!
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Thanks Marsha!
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I like how the colour in the sky is reflected in the water and nice texture in the water. As a few people have commented it has a lot of noise in the image, it looks like colour noise. I havent used PS to remove it, as I tend to shoot very low ISO to minimise this problem while using a tripod so can’t help there but maybe a tutorial online?
Otherwise I know a lot of people use special programs to remove noise but it can have the opposite problem of softening them too much. Nothing is easy!
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Thanks! I’ll be looking for some tutes on that!
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Oh this is fantastic … love how you edited this, it vibrates with colour … already a great photo btw, can’t wait to see where you’ll go from here.
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Thanks! The view took my breath away when I was taking the photo!
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I can just imagine!
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This is great. Looks like it could be in a travel brochure because I want to go there. Looks gorgeous.
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It’s such a perfect spot to photograph! I brought a friend who was visiting from SF to see the view when I snagged this pic.
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Ah Janis what a lovely view and those reflections are wonderful. The colour tones are very nice too.
In camera raw, you could try lifting the luminance – this helps with noise, although I dont know if there any side effects. You find it under the triangle with sharpening.
You could also try a trial of Topaz Denoise. Its very effective.
Looking forward to the next ones 😃😃
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Thanks Robyn – I actually don’t understand about camera raw, if it exists in a point and shoot camera or how to find it, nevermind what to do with it! LOL! But I’ll check out Topaz Denoise right now!
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