Working On Photo Editing
Here is another photo that can be visually enhanced with the lightbox effect. But this is not my main concern here. For some reason I have become interested in the clouds from last weekend’s graduation ceremony. We had massive clouds and massive amounts of people together. And this is a new subject for me. I find it interesting as a subject for a photo. BUT i am having trouble with the light balance between the people and the clouds! Also I want to describe the clouds in much greater detail.
The overall effect should be of the predominance of nature even in a ceremony of this sort when we are outdoors and up in the mountains of Virginia.
I have been reading a very interesting blog called My Camera World recently. He writes about these sorts of subjects and many others of interest to those of us who enjoy photography.
Hopefully I can work this out. It’s not a difficult problem. But I have been trying to work with code and lightboxes. Now we are going to another area of interest. Here are two reasons why I enjoy this sort of thing.
Blogging is always challenging.
And it encourages us to grow in different ways.
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David, thanks for the kind comments.
In looking at this photo there is a certain dynamism being setup between the clouds at least in the brightly lit area and with the crowd and podium speaker.
The scene looks like a commencement ceremony and those large lofty clouds with the central lit area has the appearance of a radiant light guiding these graduates to new beginnings.
Most people eyes will tend to move the highest contrast and/or brightest area in the image and this tends to be the white area within the clouds and it may have been through increasing the brightness but there is a lack of detail now in this part of the image.
If you have a program such as Photoshop of gimp then trough the use of masks you can play around with just the clouds.
The blue channel makes a good starting point and if you duplicate this channel and the apply a curves this mask (about 2 in on the top and just before mid-point on bottom a good mask is created. Just a bit of clean up in the white parts where the people where.
If you are not able to recover this detail, then maybe in another photo taken at the ceremony you could replace this area only.
As for the image to create a link between the 2 elements a beam of subtle light from the bright area to the speaker and crowd near him might re-enforce the though I had.
Also a little darkening on the left and right edges more so with the foliage and crowd to keep focus near speaker.
Niels Henriksen
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