What some simple editing can do

[Anark]

Original

Edited


And heres another.
Original

Edited

Made in MS Picture It!  :P

Who can name the building in the last shot for a bonus point.

[Woodlouse2002]

Personally I prefer the original. Assuming you havn't made a silly and the top one is the edit.

[Anark]

The top is the original but i was just showing what can be done to make them look different  :P

[Woodlouse2002]

Ah yes. That is a point. It's amazing how much detail there is in a seemingly black photograph. Problem with increasing the gamma though is that the end result doesn't look very nice. But useful if you want to look in dark spots of photographs.

As for the tower, I can't name it but I can tell you that it's in Dubai.

[VVM]

nice shots.  the building is the burj al arab.
http://www.asiarooms.com/united_arab_emirates/dubai/burj_al_arab.html

[Anark]

It is indeed the Burj.
We didn't stat there though we stayed at the one next to it, the Madinat Jumeirah.

[Tweek]

You'll never see a photo from me that hasn't been edited in some way or another (and I know that'll be the case for many other people). Usually, it'll be a touch of sharpening, cropping, level adjustment and colour correction.

For example. This:
     

would turn into this:



I could have probably edited it a little better, but I did it quickly to make my point!

[Woodlouse2002]

You'll never see a photo from me that hasn't been edited in some way or another (and I know that'll be the case for many other people). Usually, it'll be a touch of sharpening, cropping, level adjustment and colour correction.

As with me you'll rarely see a photograph from me that has been edited. So far the most I've done is a minor rotation to get the horizon on the level. For some reason I'm just not happy with the result if I've had to edit it to achieve it.

[Tweek]

As with me you'll rarely see a photograph from me that has been edited. So far the most I've done is a minor rotation to get the horizon on the level. For some reason I'm just not happy with the result if I've had to edit it to achieve it.

I'd like to see you get a perfect, full frame, properly exposed, properly coloured shot of a moving aircraft, at the end of a 420mm zoom lens, though!

With normal pics it's a little easier, and they tend to need little-no editing (usually just a quick level correction).

Have a look at any recently (by recently I mean any pic taken with a digital camera. Film scans may not need to be edited) submitted pic to Airliners.net. I can guarantee you that 99.9999% of the pics will have been edited in some way or another.

I think a better word for it would be 'processing'. Editing would have to involve changing the picture somehow (which is why I don't like to clone out unwanted items in a picture, unless it's a small bird that got into frame, or something).

Check this thread out, to see the kind of things people do when editing/processing their pics.