My post-processed Haunted Mansion photo

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jtrain75

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Tell me what you think, what you like, dislike, what you'd do better and opinions.
Through Photoshop I took the original (pictured), added some saturation, adjusted LAB levels and added contrast to it. Then I layered a photo of a sky from another photo, desaturated it and added some contrast and darkened it, added gradient to it and more contrast. Then I copied the background and took out the blown-out sky with the lasso tool, revealing the layered sky.
Then I sharpened some parts and tinkered around. It was a chore but fun of course!

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I like it!
Great job.

It needs straightened a little. the center part of the building is tilted.
 
Ok, I tried straightening it out and got the horizontal lines perfect, but the vertical lines are still out of whack. I think because of the forced perception and because I was a little off center when taking this photo, the center will always look a little crooked. UGH :-\
 
most software packages have a "distortion correction" feature. ; i have found, however, that if you try to make the verticals too straight, it doesn't quite look right. ; remember, you were looking up a bit when you took the picture to begin with.
 
I did more tinkering and decided that the tower was more noticable than any of the horizontal lines, so I straightened that out. Thanks for the advice guys!

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"jtrain75" said:
I did more tinkering and decided that the tower was more noticable than any of the horizontal lines, so I straightened that out. Thanks for the advice guys!
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that looks good.

that's what I was thinking. Just straighten the main long line in the picture, which is the center tower and "ignore" the rest. I wouldnt worry about perspective correction too much in this picture, because you were close, looking up, and using a wide angle lens. Trying to force all the lines square would probably really crop out a lot and start to stretch come stuff too much.
 
i like this, it's growing on me with more looking, i agree with only correcting perspective on the longest line, you didn't take this with a tilt/shift, so it's bound to have some perspective off
it's a real nice angle of hm, i wish those trees were just a little trimmed in the center, so a little more tower was unobstructed, but i doubt if disney is going to start letting tmip direct the landscaping, if so stand by, cause we got a big list
 
jtrain,

Check to see if your camera has a setting to turn a grid on through your viewfinder. ; I know my Nikon D80 and D300 have this feature, but I'm not sure of other makes and models. ; It really helps alot because it's setup to help with the "rule of thirds" but the horizontal and vertical lines can be used to help make sure your shot doesn't come out too askew
 
I like it! ; What you have done is what I need to start to learn, post production. ; I know very little about it and need to start tinkering with it!
 
grump,
; I'll have to check that out. What I've been using for the rule of thirds was the AF points that blink red once they lock in on something.

thanks JB, it took a lot of hours practicing and learning and I'm still learning stuff everyday. But post processing is ADDICTING especially when you start messing with plug ins!

Thank you coolio!
 
I don't think Canon or anyone else has the on-demand gridlines. ; AFAIK Nikon is the only one with the laser etched viewfinder screens.
 
My 40D doesn't have the grid, but Lightroom as a really cool tool to straighten tool to get those horizontal lines abolute.
 
I really like what you've done with this, especially seeing the drastic difference between the before and after.

I do think it's a little oversaturated, but that might be a matter of preference. ; I've found that LAB saturating seems to overdo oranges and reds (at least, for my taste), so I usually dial back the saturation a bit on those.
 
I like it. ; I don't mind the oversaturation, as it is sort of the 'look' it's going for. ; Though I generally like most of my photos to be slightly vivid, but otherwise natural in appearance, sometimes it's fun to do a few extreme processed shots and I've learned to like those too lately. ; I might only do 20 extreme processed shots for every few hundred regular processing...but it exercises the graphic art side.
 
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