Variations on a Theme (Please Vote)

[leek]

OK... All of these images originate from the same NEF file...
Just experimenting with various PP options...
Please vote for your favourite (and a brief comment in a reply as to why...)

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

[Killakoala]

Number one because it has lots of intense colour, which i like.

[Willy wombat]

#4 - as all the other ones are a bit too off. #2 is too dark for my liking. I like the sky in #2 though.

[stubbsy]

John

I voted for #4 because the blue greys seem to work best colour wise.

#1 looks unnaturally orange, #2 is way too dark, #3 is too yellow, #5 is unnatural (curves are wrong) #6 - I have an allergy to the pills

But I have to say the image doesn't work for me because of that damned tree in the foreground.

[Frankenstein]

Number one because it has lots of intense colour, which i like.

SAME HERE

[Glen]

#3 or #6 if you are selling the building on location

[bago100]

As Glen says, if you are selling then number 6 reeks of 'residential'

But for natural looks you can't go past number 4 in my humble opinion

All are interesting variations though

Cheers

Graham

[Greg B]

Number 3 for me.

Number 6 for mic.

[big pix]

No 4 as it is the most natural in colour but could do with some work in ACR or PP a bit more saturation would help to improve this image.......

cheers
bp

[leek]

Thanks for the comments... hope you found it interesting...

Just for the record, here's how the shot came out of the D70:


Most of the variations were done using different settings of exposure, hue / saturation & the last one with curves... All done in ACR 3.1 before opening in Photoshop... No sharpening or anything else applied in PS...

It's fun to experiment - especially when it's raining...

[leek]

Sorry... told a lie...

This is actually how it came out of the D70:

[big pix]

if you have PSCS2 you can straighten the verticals using the crop tool........choose crop, tick perspective, use the cornors of the cropped area to align with the building, choose crop.........one straight pix.....

cheers
bp

[leek]

bp... Yep... I saw that tip on your post on Embi's morning pic... A very handy... Is that similar to the lens correction in Nikon Capture?

I'll have to pay more attention in all the new goodness that is packed into CS2...

[Matt. K]

No 4 because all the others seem slightly fake.

[big pix]

do not use Nikon Capture as PSCS2 has so much more.....Photoshop has lens correction as well and other ways to correct an image.......
go Select All
Edit
Transform.....this will give you 6 diferent ways to play with an image, but try distort, perspective, warp as starting points

cheers
bp

[mic]

Leek, do not listen to these people, they are leading you up the garden path with 57% Fooey. It is obvious.

6 is the best.

Mic.

[leek]

Leek, do not listen to these people, they are leading you up the garden path with 57% Fooey. It is obvious.

6 is the best.

Mic.

Thought you might like that one... but did you notice the way it was only half inverted... Strange but true...

[PiroStitch]

I like #3 but for a nice and even pic, combine #3 and #6. The inverted building number actually looks better. Try combining the building number with the rest of #3 and bump up the saturation like you did for #1