this is one time that I have participated in the One Photo Focus, where we are given a photograph to edit.
This is one that Stacy sent me, of the London Eye. I have been on that thing. It is one expensive merry go round!
Anyway, the original picture is shown below.
I am a somewhat dramatic fellow, and decided that I wanted to add some drama in the sky.
In Lightroom, I added in a graduated neutral density filter. I angled it, to avoid a dark shadow from falling on the buildings. Please look at the lines! That will give you an idea
Next, I boosted the colours in the water. Click on the picture below, and you will see where I made hue and saturation adjustments; If you look at the two Lightroom pictures, you will see a difference in the water colour.
After this, I took it to Photoshop. I tend to use luminosity masks a lot, so please look at the layers. This will give you a fair idea of the steps that I finally adopted. I use the panel created by Tony Kuyper.
Between the LR and Photoshop versions you will see:
- A slightly enhanced drama in the sky
- Slightly deeper hues in the water
- The chimney have a bit more separation, and the cyans stand out a bit more. I am talking of the windows.
- The farthest building has a little more sheen.
- The Eye itself stands out just a bit more from the clouds.
Cheers!
I hope you like the final edit. I did not use any jazzy filters…
Very nice editing. I really like what you have done. 😀
Hey thanks!
Ominous! Why am I not surprised? 😉
Oh come now!!! Be nice to me!
LOL…just a little tease. Wait till I really get going!
Now, i am officially scared;)
BWAHAHAHA
Hey!
🙂
Rajiv, you did it 🙂 Wonderful moody image, as if a storm is blowing in! And the screenshots are great – it’s always interesting and instructive to actually “see” how something was accomplished. Thanks so much for playing along this month!
Oh, most welcome. I still need to link to your blog
Shall remind you to include me next month as well
You took an interesting picture and made it very dramatic. It looks like a storm might be coming through.
Leslie
Almost so!
So moody .. Laughed when I read what Laura said! So you and so good! 😄
Heh!Heh! Maybe so!
Thank you for sharing your process…I like how you brought out the details in the image
Thanks a lot! Glad you like it… I thought that sharing the process would be good
Great job. You really heightened the drama in the scene. And thanks for the excellent details on the steps.
Well thanks very much! I enjoyed this challenge a lot. Excellent photograph. I ended up staring at it for some time, before I started on the edits