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Anonymous
Dear /p/ what do you think? I got my 400D a while ago and I'm quite new with it :/
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>> Anonymous
learn some post processing and get exposed to more 'good' photography after reading up technique
>> Anonymous
grats on pretty level horizon though. thats like 5 points.
>> Anonymous
I think it's good.

58590 is right that this needs postprocessing, but otherwise there's nothing wrong with it; it's actually good.

Did you originally shoot it in RAW or JPEG?
>> Anonymous
>>58612
I think it could use a little better composition. Postprocessing could make this a really good pic, though. If you can pull more contrast out of the sky (shooting in RAW would be essential in this case), that's already a great improvement.
>> OP
Thanks for the tips. It would be nice to have a sample of a post processed image to give some direction.

>>58612
Yup, shot it with RAW.
>> Anonymous
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1. Burned the sky; did a sloppy job of it and also went over the trees where they passed over the horizon, but not the little building.
(Burn tool, makes the area dragged over darker, looks like a little hand in a sideways masturbatory position; could be covered on the menu up by a little thumbtack-looking thing (the dodge tool, which does the opposite) or a little thing that initially looks like a soapbar and not a sponge, the sponge tool, which does the same with saturation).

2. Boosted the exposure to .27. (Image, adjustments, exposure.)

2. Played with the levels. Took the black slider up to fourteen, then the white slider back to 226, and the grey slider to .97

(Image menu, adjustments, levels.)

4. Used the aforementioned sponge tool to desaturate the plants in the photograph; previous steps made them look almost lime green. Again, did a less-than-perfectionist job on this one; some overlap happened with other areas of the photograph.

5. Went back and burned again the left-hand-most fourth of the sky or so.

6. Burned the road, the path, and those tan-colored plants off to the side of the path.

>> Anonymous
>>58635
Oh, and something else I should have done: used the clone stamp tool to edit out the little black thing sticking in the the top right hand corner.
>> Anonymous
ffs, seems everyone with a 400d who can take a photo of a old shack, or a rusy car, or somethins is a photographer.

get out there, take pics of things YOU like, not what you have seen done to death 043509435893409453689546459064343 million times

also, shoot raw, save i few exposures and make a HDR for tricky skys like that.

or just take a few shots if you have a tripod.

save this image, look back it at in 6 months time and laugh at it, i know i do that with some of the images i took when starting out.
>> Anonymous
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Not a fan of this pic at all, Its just a shed with a bunch of shrubs blocking its view, the sky is overblown even after post processing and the Main 2 points of interest (the shed and the path) Are obscured.

Post some more, but I don't like this pic at all.

To contrast i went back into the first week i had my cam, so heres one of equal amounts of fail.

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>> Anonymous
>>58639
HDR looks fake. Graduated neutal density filters FTW. Or, if one forgot to take one, expose for the sky or the land and dodge/burn accordingly.
>> Anonymous
>>58635

Thanks for the detailed info you gave about the changes made, they really help since I was almost completely clueless...

Also thanks for everyone who bothered to give some tips and help me with this.
>> Anonymous
>>58646
You're welcome. Contrary to what some other posters think, it seems you have a natural knack for composition.

Oh, and by the way, the dodge, burn, and sponge tools all can have their strength adjusted on the intensity slider up at the top while they are selected, and their size on a little size slider.

The clone stamp tool works by alt-clicking on an area, and then clicking on an area with something one wants edited out. The clone stamp tool stamps an identical set of pixels over that. So just alt-click on the sky next to that black thing and click on the black thing.
>> Anonymous
>>58639
>>also, shoot raw, save i few exposures and make a HDR for tricky skys like that.

ITT tutorial.
>> Anonymous
>>58644
Are you the same person as the one who post-processed? Because the sky in it just looks hella-fake compared to HDR.

>>59657
ITT We learn how to use google.
>> Anonymous
>>59713
Yeah, I am, and yeah, parts of the sky (especially on the left-hand side) do look fake. But like I said:

>A little sloppy and a little extreme in some regards

If I was making a final version and not just a sketch/guide, I would've been much more precise in how things came out.