3rd foundation
Norfolk Odyssey's "A Great Gothic Fan"
This is NOT my photo. This is Norfolk Odyssey's image.
I did a lot of tweaks to this image and when I was done I compared it with the original and found the certain portions of the image were better in the original. I then created the original as the top-most-layer and slowly begain erasing to reveal the adjusted photo until I had a perfect blend of the two. It amost felt like doing HDR on an image.
I still think mine is too bright and I'd play more games with it, but I wanted to see what kind of detail I could reveal. My shot is more like "turning on the lights" and loses some of the mystique the original photo has. I'm sure there is some middleground between them.
Norfolk Odyssey's "A Great Gothic Fan"
This is NOT my photo. This is Norfolk Odyssey's image.
I did a lot of tweaks to this image and when I was done I compared it with the original and found the certain portions of the image were better in the original. I then created the original as the top-most-layer and slowly begain erasing to reveal the adjusted photo until I had a perfect blend of the two. It amost felt like doing HDR on an image.
I still think mine is too bright and I'd play more games with it, but I wanted to see what kind of detail I could reveal. My shot is more like "turning on the lights" and loses some of the mystique the original photo has. I'm sure there is some middleground between them.