Help with Hooker

Hi All,

Shot this a few weeks ago in Bonaire with a Nike 5 and scanned it with a Manolta dimage 3. Any suggestions for next time or any post tricks to improve the shot

Thanks in Advance

Joe

ps I added to the dive light a little and tweaked the color and Contrast in PE 3

Hi Joe -

It might look better as a B/W...try desaturating image.. there are various ways to do this...Scott Kelby's books on PS are pretty good and explain several techniques to convert pictures to B/W.

M.

The red channel is non-existant (as expected from an available light image) and the blue channel is un-usable because the image is over exposed. The only usable channel is green.

Inless you can bring the exposure down in the darkroom (I've never used film so I have no idea how or if you could do this) all you can do make a black and white using just the green channel.

In photoshop use the channel mixer (image/adjust/channel mixer). Change the red and blue channels to (R=0, G=100, B=0)

The red channel is non-existant (as expected from an available light image) and the blue channel is un-usable because the image is over exposed. The only usable channel is green.

 

Inless you can bring the exposure down in the darkroom (I've never used film so I have no idea how or if you could do this) all you can do make a black and white using just the green channel.

 

In photoshop use the channel mixer (image/adjust/channel mixer). Change the red and blue channels to (R=0, G=100, B=0)

Hmmm blue channel overexposed(shows you what I know). I have some other exposures let me look at them and maby I can find a darker exposure. I will try the move you suggested on this shot in PSE

Thanks

Joe

Count not find channel mixer in PS elements but found remove color information

tighened it up a little with unshapt mask. Wadda you think?

increased contrast sharpened and croped

oops too big

The last picture displays slightly larger, but it looks not better.

The other B&W images look quite clean, the last one looks very noisy and oversharpened. Maybe the last step to increase contrast and sharpening was too much

Gerard

user error. here it is

thanks