The Boathouse

C&C please!

I'm not quite happy with this, I think I'm mainly concerned about the left side of the image, but any ideas appreciated.

I've also just noticed while uploading the halo around the roof Will see what I can do about that!

Tim nice image I would clone out the boats and bring in some pure black and white into the sky.

James

I find your avatar very distracting and rather Unsophisticated
I fact I don't generally reply to your posts for this reason

Thanks James, The clouds were quite overdone so I had to mess around with the sky to try and avoid blow outs. You're right, it is very grey - I'll see if I can improve it.

Don't worry about the avatar, I'll change it - i like it as it always cracks me up but I have plenty of others I also like

A cat avatar for you Mr Joker

thank you Tim much much better and no crazy man around cheers

James

try a layer mask and then play with your clouds and sky

James
send me the image by pm or email you can find this on my website and I will have a go (colour image please)

Like the shed a lot. Not sure what you've done to the sky. It looks very odd on my monitor. Is it two exposures? Or HDR? Don't like it whatever it is. No opinion re. the boats - not that bothered by them (though I would clone out the one closest to the edge), however, perhaps cloning them all out might make it a cleaner image.

Thanks Mhuni. It was a single exposure. The clouds were quite heavily blown out in the original. While messing around trying to retrieve some detail there the skies all went the sort of putrid grey you see now. I was so focussed on the blow outs that I didn't notice what was happening elsewhere Will have another go at this photo later today, and post results here.

Okay, new version. I gave up trying to sort out the clouds using highlights/shadows etc. In the end I used a layer mask of a severely under-exposed shot for the sky, and a nicely exposed boathouse. I also cloned out the tilting boat masts (and most of the boats )

nice and clean Tim I did tell you to use layer mask didn't i

and the shot looks getter with out the boats/ships to the left

I would hang this in my home 10/10

James

Like the house more - it's full of character. Think the removal of boats is probably a good thing, though I'm not that bothered. The sky's better, but I still find it rather odd. I think this is in effect a kind of HDR isn't it - combining exposures for f/g & b/g? And generally speaking I don't go for HDR because to my eye it just doesn't look quite right - which for me is the case here.