Ibiza Town

[Dan Cattermole]

Some shot of Ibiza town (Old Ibiza town)

Fantastic place and I wish I was more serious about photography when I went.
However here's a couple....

I tried to take them as straight as possible... but I think the town is pretty ******! lol

Thanks for looking

 

[Pete Askew]

You've got a bit of a treasure trove lurking in those HDDs!! Really like the second shot (reminds me of Mykonos - and probably pretty well any of the other similar places). Good choice of PP and crop (of course!). Shame there's not a touch more detail in the highlights of the first shot though. Especially withe way the lines lead the eye. Is there any more that can be squeezed out of the file?

 

[Tim Pindar]

Nice. I love exploring old towns.

The place I'd love to go back to with a good camera and time to spare is Istanbul. Went there in the 1980s and the backways and alleyways were amazing.

 

[Dan Cattermole]

Thanks guys.

Love to of seen those alleys Tim!

Pete, I tried to do some selective clarity to recover some detail from those highlights as mentioned.
However, when I took all my Ibiza shots I was none of the wiser when it come to RAW and jpeg, and unfortunately these were all taken in jpeg. So I've lost all that important detail.

I could kick myself over it.... But we all had to start the learning curve somehow.
Maybe this could be used as an example to newly joined Peter from Scotland that jpeg could effectively loose that detail one is looking for.
I will NEVER shoot in jpeg again.

 

[Pete Askew]

Of well never mind I guess you could layer it over something with appropriate detail in PS and blend something back to take the harshness away. What do you think?

 

[Dan Cattermole]

That sounds like a great idea pete... I'll that a go after tonight's carnage!! Lol
So use another image of some sort to overlay it with this image that's appropriate and fits? I'm very interested in this idea....
Do explain more

 

[Pete Askew]

Here's a very rough example.

Here I copied part of the image and pasted it as a new layer and then used a mask to partially reveal it within the image at the upper left. For the arch I copied that area twice and used multiply as the blending mode and then a mask the control the amount / density of the reveal. It would be much easier to do on the full size image and you could even clone bit more of the sea in.

 

[Dan Cattermole]

Brilliant pete, just brilliant!!
I'll take every step of that in consideration when I get round to it... That's fantastic advice that.
I do have PS elements that I use very occasionally and PS CS4 which I haven't loaded on my laptop yet.
I've been glued so much to LR 2.6 that's served so much purpose to me, that I haven't considered PS at all really.
Maybe a new years reg would be to utilise what I have already and get cs4 on there to carry out such brilliance!!
Thanks again pete. you are ........ A legend!!

 

[Pete Askew]

And the nice thing is you can dive in and out of PS from LR to get the most of them. And if you re-open the file in PS (file open recent or whatever it is in Windows - or click on the actual modified copy shown by LR), make some changes etc they will be reflected in the copy in your LR library.