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| Andrys Basten | profile | all galleries >> Galleries >> Photo editing trials | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
| Various experiments while I'm learning Photoshop. Now I'll need to redo old travel pics that are washed out due to bad monitor settings while processing photos. UFFIZI Museum pics: At first, I wanted to show friends how the Uffizi Gallery in Florence presents these famous paintings (choice of framing, glass you have to look through!) -- but the glaring reflections, after I noticed them, were a no-go. They are against even non-flash photos, so what you see is guesswork. So below are the two pics I took there - their Before/After versions. I used pictures from my books to see what was under those reflections and lighter areas and then, by trial and error, found out what color changes are needed to match the unreflected colors. They're both distorted and include only part of the paintings as presented, because I shot from an angle and from the waist (under duress) but it's my personal museum experience rather than someone else's perfect postcard pic or poster :-) I've put the modified versions, plus insets with ultra-degraded detail from iso400 shots, in the Florence2 gallery. VATICAN photos: For the pictures of the famous Pieta at St. Peter's, I needed to do something about the huge distracting glass-window reflection at the top-left. The famous sculpture is protected behind bullet-proof plexiglass now, after a madman attacked it with a hammer in 1972. We ARE allowed to shoot even flash photos of the Pieta in St. Peter's, though I recently read that the Sistine Chapel area is fairly strict re any photographs because the Japanese group who paid for the 7-yr restoration owns rights to the ceiling paintings. They are much more strict with people going in with large DSLRs and zoom lenses though, tossing them out.
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. HISTOGRAMS: Here's a beautiful piece on histograms in general, from the luminous-landscape site.
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. Photoshop CS3 Essential Skills - by Mark Galer and Philip Andrews. I just got this as a very clear |
 By Scott Kelby - Lesson01-as-shot.jpg |
 By Scott Kelby - Lesson01s.jpg |
 By Scott Kelby - Final book result |
 By Scott Kelby - Alternate tint |
 Original shot, from the car, bridge railing at bottom |
 Straightened, with bridge railing removed |
 Badly-Blurred image: First "sharpened" version - still awful |
 San Gimignano, clearer now (in larger version) |
 mImg_0517.jpg |
 mImg_0517.jpg |
 Sky details missing and lighting was averaged. |
 This is what drew me to the scene. |
 Badly underexposed, iso100, 1/250 sec, 300mm at 7:30pm at dusk |
 Via Adobe Photoshop and class info of 9/28/06 |
 Botticelli: Primavera, Uffizi Gallery |
 Botticelli: Primavera, Uffizi Gallery |
 Botticelli: The Birth of Venus, Uffizi Gallery |
 Botticelli: The Birth of Venus, Uffizi Gallery |
 Michelangelo: Pietà |
 Michelangelo: Pietà |
 I liked this but there was no context |
 This is the full scene |
 salvage 3 - ultra-blurred original image |
 Unsharp mask helped some. |
 Flash reflected on glass over photo |
 Cloned other areas (table) to replace flash |
 Restaurant window reflection, with wires |
 Restaurant window reflection, without wires |
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