Dpbours (218) 2009-06-06 05:25:58

I started to enhance contrast in various steps. Then a small increase in saturation, but not too much.
Used a nikefex plugin for polarization to make the colours jump out a bit more. Then last some steps of unsharp masking and a frame added.

Hope you like it!

Dpbours (218) 2009-06-02 08:44:41

First desaturation of the rocks.
Then a polarizer filter over it for the colours. A bit of contrast, and edge sharpening with unsharp masking fading to white and black. Making the whites and the blacks stand out a bit more.

Hope you like it!

Dpbours (218) 2009-04-18 10:56:50

Contrast and brightness layer mainly to darken the sky. Then I used the blur tool to wash away some parts of the noise in the sky.
Then unsharp masking of the foreground in several steps.

Hope you like it!

Dpbours (218) 2009-04-14 03:36:53

I started with Noise Ninja to get rid of most noise in the darker parts of the sky. Then I used the blur tool to brush away all the other pixels in the sky.
After that some unsharp masking faded to lighter to get the construction jumping out.

And to make it all more sparkling a polarizer filter overlay.
I often use a polarizer at night if working with tripod, just to get more impact.

A frame to give it more impact with a small white line.

Hope you like it! Dennis

Dpbours (218) 2009-04-07 02:24:45

When receiving my 14-24 at the office...
Wonderful! Looking forward to this evening ;-)

Dpbours (218) 2009-04-04 03:10:41

Structured layers with the use of masking, contrast, highlights etc.

Dpbours (218) 2009-04-04 03:08:19

An antique filter overlayed.

Dpbours (218) 2009-03-09 05:47:00

Three steps of unsharp masking

USM +80, 0.3pix radius, 0 treshold, fade to darker
USM +60, 0.3pix radius, 0 treshold, fade lighter
USM +40, 0.3pix radius, 0 treshold, fade to darker

Master channel saturate +3
Red, saturate +8
Yellow, saturate +4
Blue, saturate +10.

A little bit sharper on the edges and more punch in the colours. Hope you like it!

Dpbours (218) 2009-02-27 17:28:55

I used photoshop CS2. I'm on a work-trip to Papua and I don't have my own laptop with CS3 with me...

I started with removing the frame and then a 2 degrees clockwise rotation to get rid of the tilted horizon.
Not to loose too much of the photograph, I then selected all, transform - distort and stretched the left and right side.
I cut off the top and bottom part that were white due to the rotation.

After that Unsharp masking 9% - 40 pix radius, 0 treshold.
USM, 80%, 0.3 pix radius, 0 treshold, fade to lighter
USM 80%, 0.3 pix radius, 0 treshold, fade to darker.
Then saturation; yellow +10, red +24, blue +4.
Last another 30% USM, 0.3 pix radius, 0 treshold, fade to darker.

And added a frame again with the canvas option.

Hope you like it!!

Dpbours (218) 2009-02-19 04:44:31

I started with getting rid of the frame, since the black lines were too thick and taking too much attention. Then unsharp mask +12, 30pix radius, then unsharp mask +80, 0.3 pix radius, fade to lighter, then unsharp mask +80, 0.3 pix radius, fade to darker.
Layer with contrast enhancement in the middle light part above the sun. Then another one with contrast and saturation. Then another one with contrast lower to paint the top edges. Last a little saturation with the velvia vision plugin.

And a subtle thin frame added.

Hope you like it!