Welding glass filter shot

[alfbranch]

I have been to the beach today and took a few pics here are a couple what do you think.

First the one with the welding glass as a big stopper filter.


Parton beach by alfred.branch, on Flickr

This is just a control shot.


Parton beach 2 by alfred.branch, on Flickr

Does anyone have any advice other than a B&W conversion for long exposure

[pburness]

Alf,
You need to be careful with the colour cast of the 'welding glass' the top image has a marked green cast. One other twist I've seen recently ( and could be done here because the land & sky can be easily masked) is to layer the two images on top of each other, and mask the land / sky out on one layer to just let the water have the motion and not the clouds. Can't say it's looked brilliant on all the ones I've seen but there have been one or two....

Phil

[alfbranch]

I will show what the original looked like when I get time to show the severity of the cast

I had already started on this conbersion when I read this


Parton beach 3 by alfred.branch, on Flickr

[alfbranch]

This is what it started out like


Parton beach unprocessed by alfred.branch, on Flickr

[silversnapper1]

Hi Alf,

A trick that I have learned is that when you open the file in Adobe Camera RAW pick up the White Balance Tool from the toolbar at the top of the screen and click on a part of the picture that should be white, say one of those clouds and hey presto, it should be somewhere near where you want to be.

Hope that this helps.

Steve.

[pburness]

Quite a difference, still some to go though until it looks like the control shot...

Phil

[pburness]

Alf,
If you are using Photoshop CS - then open the image and add a curves layer,
Select the white eye-dropper and click on an area that should be white. This will remove the main green stain, next on the menu at the top right of the adjustment layer control panel (where it says RGB), open the pull down and select the green channel. Pull the green diagonal down across it's range until the green cast has gone from the image.
You can then save this curve and re-apply it each time you are editing a photo that has the filter on it.
(I think you can do a similar thing in ACR - but not sure if you can save/reload for later use.)

Something like this, although I may have gone a bit to far...



Phil

[dan123]

Nice attempt though alf... i suffer from magenta/orangy colour casts with my filter.... so some great tips from the others.... i use the white balance and the Photofilters to cool my shots down.....

shame it gives a green cast, its a bit harder to deal with really... blue would be easy and so is magenta and orange..

bit of practise you should get it though

well done for trying..

dan

[alfbranch]

Originally Posted by silversnapper1

Hi Alf,

A trick that I have learned is that when you open the file in Adobe Camera RAW pick up the White Balance Tool from the toolbar at the top of the screen and click on a part of the picture that should be white, say one of those clouds and hey presto, it should be somewhere near where you want to be.

Hope that this helps.

Steve.

Steve
Thanks for that it work really well. I forgot about that tool. Phil thanks for that too as I may need a bit more adjustment in PS as the tint went fullscale to 150

I will try again tomorrow as I have to get up early for work tomorrow

[alfbranch]

I may have made the grass too green but I am still wondering about this shot


Parton beach 4 by alfred.branch, on Flickr