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 leviathan-ish
 
Location: Saginaw, MI
Gender: Female
 |  | How can I fix this photo?
< on 6/17/2009 10:38 PM >
|  | | | First off, my apologies if this post is not in the proper place.
Ive never been that great with photoshop. I googled some, but I cant find what Im looking for...maybe I dont even know what Im looking for....anyway...
Any hints for fixing this photo? Or is it just that bad it cant be fixed?
Thank in advance....be nice please.
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insanedArk
   
Location: GTA
Gender: Male
| | Re: How can I fix this photo?
<Reply # 1 on 6/17/2009 10:47 PM >
| | | | In photoshop I guess you could try to sharpen it. But what's MUCH more effective is making a sharp photo before any photoshop. Did you shoot this with a tripod? If not, you should look into one. I carry one all the time when taking photos.
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trent
 
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Location: Drainwhale hunting
Gender: Male
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| |  | Re: How can I fix this photo?
<Reply # 2 on 6/17/2009 11:14 PM >
| | | | A shot in a dark room with a bright window is difficult. Either the window comes out too bright with the room good, or the room dark but the window visible.
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Intrinsic
Location: Collingwood
Gender: Male
| | Re: How can I fix this photo?
<Reply # 3 on 6/17/2009 11:38 PM >
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Neither attempt are very good but...
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Crab_Soul
| | Re: How can I fix this photo?
<Reply # 4 on 6/18/2009 12:03 AM >
|  | | | i would say use the burn tool on the window
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leviathan-ish
Location: Saginaw, MI
Gender: Female
| | Re: How can I fix this photo?
<Reply # 5 on 6/18/2009 12:37 AM >
| | | | Posted by insane_dark
In photoshop I guess you could try to sharpen it. But what's MUCH more effective is making a sharp photo before any photoshop. Did you shoot this with a tripod? If not, you should look into one. I carry one all the time when taking photos.
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Nope, I dont have a tripod. Booo, I know. I figured its not really "fixable" but thought Id ask incase there's some super PS secret out there.
Thanks all for the suggestions....Ill mess around with it, if at least just for practice.
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Wilk
Location: NYC
Gender: Male
| | | Re: How can I fix this photo?
<Reply # 6 on 6/18/2009 2:38 AM >
| | | | My suggestion would be to use the quick selection tool and select everything inside the window frame, then try and darken it. Then select everything outside the window frame and brighten it up a little bit. No matter what you do, your going to have to adjust them separately just because the contract is so great.
But I am just a photoshop noob so I may have no idea what I am talking about.
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Bittersweet
Location: Mohawk Valley
Gender: Female
| |  |  | Re: How can I fix this photo?
<Reply # 7 on 6/18/2009 3:40 AM >
| | | | I just played around a little bit. I changed the photo to black and white. Then lightened it a bit. here is your photo....
I hope you don't mind me changing your color. I love black and whites, and I only shoot with color but usually play around with PS and see what the b/w's will look like.
Sometimes sharpening a photo in PS can do more harm to the photo than good. I have one photo of an old factory in my hometown where I changed the color to black and white and kept the color only on the graffiti.
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mre770
Location: atlanta
| | Re: How can I fix this photo?
<Reply # 8 on 6/18/2009 6:09 AM >
| | | | for something like this I will shoot 2 shots and blend them in photoshop - exposing 1 for the outside and 1 for the inside.
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Dagon
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Location: Greater Boston Metropolitan Area
Gender: Male
| | Re: How can I fix this photo?
<Reply # 9 on 6/18/2009 3:33 PM >
| | | | Before you even think about using Photoshop, you need to contrate on taking better photos. Too many would be photographers go stampeding ahead into software editing before they develop any skill. This one belongs on the scrap heap; it just has too many problems to bother with, unless it was your only photo of some amazing place or thing that you wanted to wring the best you could out of.
1. Most obvious problem is that it's blurred. A sharpened blurry photo will never look nearly as good as one that was sharp to begin with. If you don't have a tripod, sometimes you can find a piece of furniture over a board or something to stabilize against, or even use a doorway across the room and then crop if you can't zoom to whatever photo you want. Barring that, just take a bunch of them, and you'll increase your chances of getting a sharp one. Concentrate on your breathing and try to pause between inhaling and exhaling while you take the photo. Shooters (of guns) find that this maximizes their aim and accuracy.
2. The other big one is the composition; the window is placed awkwardly in the photo. Since the very old graffiti is also of interest, I would have shot this so that the window was farther to the left of the photo (look up the "rule of thirds" if you haven't heard of it. This would also have minimized that distracting darker stuff at the left edge of your photo.
3. I also would have backed up a bit so that you've got more wall above and below the window.
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willskith
Location: Boston, MA
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: How can I fix this photo?
<Reply # 10 on 6/18/2009 4:05 PM >
| | | | Back up two feet, meter your exposure for the wall, and take some more time to focus your lens.
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leviathan-ish
Location: Saginaw, MI
Gender: Female
| | Re: How can I fix this photo?
<Reply # 11 on 6/19/2009 4:00 AM >
| | | | Ahh yes, I need photog lessons badly. Thanks for the help...I need much more practice to break all of the horrible habits I have.
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Naaman
Location: Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Gender: Male
| | | Re: How can I fix this photo?
<Reply # 12 on 6/19/2009 1:40 PM >
| | | | haha you aren't alone, leviathan
there are trolls like me who learn a lot from these threads
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Oryx
Location: Who knows
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| | Re: How can I fix this photo?
<Reply # 13 on 6/19/2009 8:21 PM >
| | | | Actually, you might be alright with just changing it to black/white then adjusting the exposure and levels a bit.
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mesomewierdo
| | Re: How can I fix this photo?
<Reply # 14 on 6/20/2009 11:39 AM >
| | | | You could have used (yuk) fill flash, it wouldn't have been noticeable in daylight probably. To dim and soften it you can put a piece of paper in front of the flash. It's flat lighting, regarded as uninteresting, but you're shooting a flat wall head on so not much of an issue.
I assume you're on a point and shoot but the advice of others is on.
Was there another light source in the room? Or was it just that one window bouncing off all the walls? The curtains helped, they're interesting, and they cut the light coming in, like window gels would in a movie.
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metawaffle
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Location: Brisbane!
Gender: Male
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| | | Re: How can I fix this photo?
<Reply # 15 on 6/20/2009 11:44 AM >
| | | | Posted by mesomewierdo
You could have used (yuk) fill flash, it wouldn't have been noticeable in daylight probably. To dim and soften it you can put a piece of paper in front of the flash. It's flat lighting, regarded as uninteresting, but you're shooting a flat wall head on so not much of an issue.
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Being indoors, there's always the option of just bouncing it off the ceiling 
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mesomewierdo
| | Re: How can I fix this photo?
<Reply # 16 on 6/20/2009 11:56 AM >
| | | | and with a p/s and piece of paper you can either diffuse the flash or hold the paper at a 45 degree angle to bounce some flash on up. depends on how white the ceiling is and how ballsy the flash is (usually not very)
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