Photo #1 - Paragliding in the Sierra Foothills.
Photo #2 - Paragliding in the Sierra Foothills.
Sometimes I have a hard time tossing out a photo just because it’s out of focus. This photo is one of those photos. What I like to do when this happens is to apply my favorite artistic filter in PhotoShop CS3 “Poster Edges.”
Photo # 1 – In Lightroom 2, I set the White Balance to daylight and applied the Nikon D300 preset. Then, in PhotoShop CS3, I turned this out of focus photo into a digital art photo, by applying the “Poster Edges” filter.
Photo #2 – This is the way the NEF looked straight out of the camera.
Does this work for you? I’d love to hear your comments.
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Hi Sherri!
i think you captured a very nice picture with clear clue skies and no disurbing objects around the main object. That’s great!
I think though that the very blue sky with the developed one in Lightroom is a little too saturated in the blue. It is nice to have a good contrast between the parachuters and the sky.
Then i don’t know if the published version on your blog shattred the blue sky or if it is my uncalibrated workscreen. The blue sky seems pixly and broken and very noisy.
Great work though!
Hi Sven – Thanks for taking the time to comment on this post and for your feedback. The noise you are referring to is from using the “Poster Edges” artistic filter in PhotoShop CS3. Perhaps I should have worked with it a bit more??? Thanks again for stopping by!
Hi Sherri!
I think The Poster Edges doesn’t give the reult that I look for. Sometimes it only looks noisy. I’m not sure that the filter needs to be applied at all to make the feeling in the picture.
Maybe a litle more clearblue sky is enough.
Great work though!