ninanic (69) 2007-08-10 16:49:05

Hi Muna,

The girl's smile is truly beautiful, and you did a great job capturing it. Her personality really shows! However those two really bright lights in the background kept distracting me, so I cropped in to remove them. IMO it's OK to crop in a little on the top of the head, as long as the face is still showing. I also increased the contrast just slightly (+7) - it seemed to play up her cheekbones (and that smile) just a bit.

Best wishes, Nina

Maklella (49) 2007-01-13 13:34:55

I've cut out the 3rd person and made it more straight.

CliffW (2381) 2005-05-20 08:26:18

I do hope you don't mind the workshop Muna. It's as much to teach myself to do these things as it is anything else.

Using Photoshop:
I cropped so that the bright of the white in the corner didn't distract from his face and so he was not as centered. I used the equalize function which is very harsh at first, but then I faded the effect to 24% and used the soft light blending option. I despeckled to remove some of the grain. Added a little more contrast and a frame.

Hoping you like it.

gsgeorge (764) 2005-02-07 22:39:49

Muna,

I rotated this photo about 1.3 degrees CCW.
Then I converted to black and white.
I decreased the brightness -5.
I increased the contrast +10.
I dodged the rock outcroppings near the bottom and in the water.
I burned in the farthest large rock cropping.

Unfortunately, the large tree in the foreground creates a large black area that was mostly unfixable.

Hope you like it!

erdna (5713) 2005-01-27 14:11:48

I just cropped the top.

puister (570) 2005-01-27 04:58:37

After cropping it I also added some extra contrast.

krakus (1581) 2005-01-25 07:13:39

just to compare
Mt. Saint Helens is open from north side.

gsgeorge (764) 2005-01-25 00:32:27

1. Auto Levels
2. Adjusted shadows/highlights so that highlights had less intensity and shadows had more
3. Darkened photo -3%
4. Slight yellow photo filter
5. Burned in area in upper right
6. Dodged shadow of cloud

That's it. Hope you like it!

Miks (1717) 2005-01-25 00:31:53

Hi Muna,

As mentioned I thought the pic was good already so my suggested modifications are minimal and fairly standard. The most important was to correct the levels as there was a bit of a cast over the pic. Then I provided a little more contrast by using curves and finally I sharpened it up. I do think it stands a little more crisp.

Don't know if this is helpful. If its not what you were looking for you should ask one of the many TE'ers who is more of a photoshop- buff than I am.

Cheers,
Mikkel

j_wyatt (685) 2005-01-25 00:30:36

I sharpened and adjusted the levels a bit. The right side of the photo is a bit blury and the sharpening helped a bit I think.