yet another castle rework and digital art added!! now a buzz

I don't even know the name of this one, just saw it at the last minute and made Sandy stop in a hurry so i could get the shot, it was too pretty to pass up, this one was nearer Fort William c&c welcome

Wonderful - looks like a painting - maybe a bit of clarity needed in the sky (??) but an awesome landscape shot - well seen and captured ~ John

thanks John, yeah agreed, the sky was slightly blown so not too much couldn be done with it, i did try a bit of contrast but it didn't look much better, i'll try working on it some more cos it's too good to trash i think

There is detail in the sky so there is something that could be done with it.

A great shot of a very picturesque place Sharon.

Lovely scene Sharon, and the sky looks fine to me. I have this felling the land is washing away around the castle. That has to be a very old one.

Very pretty shot Sharon, nice capture !!

thanks Stewart, Jan & Kathy, I'm going to work on it some more Stewart and see what i can do, Jan i think you might be right, it looks as though it was built on mainland but they put a moat round it and the sea/loch has washed away at it for many years

i did a rework to see what i could get out of the sky, what do you think?



also tried a painted effect after John saying it looked like a painting, not sure if it quite worked though, i'd like to see version with Tracy's buzz X i think that would work better

Hey.........well done Sharon - the original looks sharper and more 'Autuminal' in colour - the dig art painting is a great dimension. Prefer the original however........... John

thanks John, i'm still working on the dig art one as i really wasn't happy with this version, but it's not doing what i want oh well

I'm not real sure about the painted one, but I really like the way the sky turned out. It gives the shot an erie feel and that's what I feel when I think about castles, kinda erie/creepy !!!

thanks Kathy, i'm not happy with the digital art one either, i wish i had buzz X

The sky looks superb.
Try adding a duplicate graduated layer of pale brown at about 10-15% opacity to warm up the rest of the pic, see if it works or not.

thanks Stewart, can you elaborate on the duplicate grad layer? i'm not sure i know how to do that

I like this a lot Sharon...well composed and I like the new sky as well.

thanks Terri, i like the new sky better too

Stewart you got me thinking and i decided to try playing around in photoshop, i ended up at something called variations which allowed me to choose more Yellow, red, magenta, green or blue, i chose more yellow then more red (should make a warm brown of sorts ..right?) then tried it at various opacity percentages

original and 30%
35% and 40%

Graduated fill layer!!

When I get my puter up and running I'll post the procedure.
Can't remember offhand so need to look it up on PS.

ok i managed to acquire a version of BuZZ and had a quick play with it, let me know what you all think please

Hi Sharon

I like the composition of this Picture, and I like the digital enhancements to the sky but some thing about it doesn't sit quite right and I think I just realized what it is. If the sky were that yellow the water wouldn't be as blue as it is. Not really sure what to do about it (ask one of the digital wizards *lol*) but I thought I'd toss my 2 cents on the table.
If there was some way to take some of the color out of the sky and darken the shadows to give more contrast to the clouds?

-Griz

PS: What is buzz?

thanks John, i had to sort the sky so that it wasn't so blown and to do that i warmed it up with filters in photoshop which turned it more yellow than blue (actually almost purple in the original) so maybe some tweaks to be done to it yet, i'll keep working on it till i'm happy with it, all the feedback is a great help, BuZZ is an editing program for doing digital art with your photos

If you want an overall colour cast then add a fill layer with a yellow fill at around 20% opacity.

thanks to mum & dad i've got the name of this one now it's called Stalker Castle this is a link to a couple of photos and some info on it

it was fun looking for it