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Have a look at this photograph, taken by a friend of mine at an airshow on a particularly grey day:
http://www.esses.co.uk/bigginhill05/321_2147.htm
I figured I could improve that a bit, but it’s not as easy as it looks. I found a number of ways to lift the colour in the smoke trails, and to boost the contrast a bit, but the sky has me stumped. It’s almost purely even grey, so there’s no colour to manipulate.
My clumsy attempts to colourize, or in some way insert some more pleasing colour (blue sky, for example!) just screws the smoke colours. Making a selection of the sky, without the smoke trails, has proved somewhat tricky.
How would the assembled experts improve this photo?
http://www.esses.co.uk/bigginhill05/321_2147.htm
I figured I could improve that a bit, but it’s not as easy as it looks. I found a number of ways to lift the colour in the smoke trails, and to boost the contrast a bit, but the sky has me stumped. It’s almost purely even grey, so there’s no colour to manipulate.
My clumsy attempts to colourize, or in some way insert some more pleasing colour (blue sky, for example!) just screws the smoke colours. Making a selection of the sky, without the smoke trails, has proved somewhat tricky.
How would the assembled experts improve this photo?
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