http://www.photography.ca/Forums/ The place for all digital questions. en Thu, 23 May 2013 20:28:19 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.photography.ca/Forums/images/misc/rss.png http://www.photography.ca/Forums/ http://www.photography.ca/Forums/digital-photography/20188-when-give-up.html Mon, 29 Apr 2013 02:05:34 GMT I took a trip on the Welsh Highland Railway which took me into the hills, with some being in the far distance. With a Tamron 18 - 270 mm on a Nikon 7000 I was able to zoom in a fair bit but the hills were still quite a distance away and I had no tripod with me. So the RAW image looked like this.... I took a trip on the Welsh Highland Railway which took me into the hills, with some being in the far distance. With a Tamron 18 - 270 mm on a Nikon 7000 I was able to zoom in a fair bit but the hills were still quite a distance away and I had no tripod with me. So the RAW image looked like this. with some work I was able to improve it using CS5 and I arrived at this which although better still not great. So when does one give up and put it in the bin? In the depth of winter when the air is clear likely I would get something better and clearly a tripod would help but unlikely I will return to re-take.

I took one image and changed the colour cast and then another and increased the "Detail" which is Photoshop's name for Local Tone Mapping then used layers and masks to blend them together. Likely there is some easy method I have yet to find so I am all ears. ]]> Digital photography ericmark http://www.photography.ca/Forums/digital-photography/20188-when-give-up.html