Yes, I know this is kind of late in the day on Friday but it is still Friday. My friend, Lindsey sent me this picture of a waterfall from one of their camping/hiking trips to…?? somewhere. Anyway, here is the original.
As you can tell, it’s too dark and really doesn’t do justice to the beautiful scene.
So first I sharpened up the image a little bit. Then I did some tricks to brighten the picture while still keeping the sky in the background blue and not overexposed. I also brightened up the foliage some by adding a new layer in photoshop and painting some light green over the areas I wanted to be brighter. Then I used that layer as an overlay to the original picture. There were a few spots that were kind of noisy once the picture was brightened up. I used noiseware to take care of that. I also whitened and brightened the water. So here’s the picture after those things were done.
Then I decided that I really didn’t like the waterfall in the middle of the picture. Following the whole “rule of thirds” thing I decided to crop it so the waterfall is off center.
And then I also did a black and white conversion.
So thanks for playing along, Lindsey!! I’ll e-mail these back to you and you’ll have a pretty new picture to add to your scrapbook.
If you want me to try my hand at fixing one of your photos, send it to jhintze@jhintze.com and I’ll see what I can do. Happy Friday!
Yay! Thanks! This was at the bottom of the Grand Canyon at Mooney Falls in the Havasupai Indian Reservation.
Way fun trip. Highly recommend it if you are up for a hike.