Possible or not?

[Orinoco]

After a particular crappy day a Manchester weather wise wonder if the pic below is good enough to get in the DB, 1st time shooting from this spot

[airPLAINcrazy]

phenominal shot!! It looks like you climbed the up the landing lights :-| lol

[magic48]

Slightly overexposed and oversharp (seeing as there are jaggies around the titles), but nothing that can't be fixed in PS.

[BA747-436]

It looks compressed as all hell to be totally honest. Or it has been run through neat image (or a similar) noise reduction program with not so great effect....?

[Orinoco]

No neat image, shot at iso 200, which I can normally get away with, thanks for the honesty thats what I wanted, guess it will go in the personal collection folder, thanks to all for your comments

[brianw999]

Have another go with less sharpening. Did you shoot in RAW ? If you did, there is a very good chance of processing this one to get in. Could you post an unprocessed original ?

And why did you shoot at 200 ISO ? With a shutter speed of 1/500 and focal length of 115mm you could have dropped to ISO 100 and still got a shutter speed of 1/250 ?
A lesson I learned some time ago when shooting in poor light/weather was to constantly check the light readings and keep ISO as low as possible conducive with a useable shutter speed.

[Greg Wilson]

Nothing wrong with shooting at ISO 200....just means that any underexposure can be more of a problem.
Bet the original was very underexposed and hence plenty of noise, and your need for NR.

[Orinoco]

Hi Brian,

Yeah picture was shot in RAW, unprocessed JPG and RAW on my website, so you can have a look, any pointers greatly appreciated as always, yeah after I had taken these shots about 10 in total I changed my iso to 100 these were the 1st shots I took immediately after arriving at this location, much to my dismay I should add

Tony

[E-Diddy!]

I'd resize that one down to 1200 or 1024 pixels wide too. For those kinds of conditions, 1600 pixels is a bit much.

[brianw999]

OK, lets try this for starters...

From the RAW original...

Level.
Crop to 1200x800.
Set histogram contrast in levels.
+18 contrast
4 x passes of overall USM at 100_0.2_0
1 X pass of selective USM on the registration (although I think that overdid it a bit)
In curves, a slight "S" to close the contrast gap and put some detail into the highlights.

.......

[Orinoco]

Thanks Brian, I think lately I have become guilty of overprocessing my pics again, this happened last year when I started writing action sets, I then spent some time away and didnt do any picture processing, then I submitted about 25 pics all processed by hand and had 1 or 2 rejected for things like wrong category and wrong reg not for my processing, so I started writing action scripts again to aid my workflow, but they have had the opposite effect...so back to basics again I think.....as always your help has been greatly appreciated


Tony