Ontonagon Lighthouse

[GeorgeB]

This is the Ontonagon Light...no longer in service but well maintained by the historical society. It is located in the Upper Pennsylvania of Michigan and I got this shot last summer. Lots of post-processing here because when I got the shot it was poring rain...I mean really poring. The shot was completely washed out but I wanted to see if I could make something of it and this is what I cam up with. Not sure if I like the light effect I put on the lighthouse but I will leave it for the time being.

 

[Eggy]

That's a nice photo!

Although the sky doesn't look realistic and the bright blue of the water suggest bright light, so that clashes a bit.
Just my opinion...

 

[GeorgeB]

You raise a good point...I will play with that a bit.

 

[gedstar]

Hi GeorgeB

Maybe you could show the original image so we could see a before and after

 

[GeorgeB]

gedstar - I probably should have done that in the beginning...I'm just getting up to speed in these forums. This is the out of camera shot:

 

[Eggy]

There are so many possibilities...
Just a quick example in gif format

 

[GeorgeB]

Great selection work...especially in the tree line. Thanks for the effort. I need to get better at selections.

 

[gedstar]

Great selection work...especially in the tree line. Thanks for the effort. I need to get better at selections.

For selections like these my favourite method is with channels, here I made copy of the blue channel
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Then add a level adjustment to the blue channel copy
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Then use colour range for the selection
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Result
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[GeorgeB]

Wow...thanks. Did you set any kind of feather?

 

[gedstar]

Wow...thanks. Did you set any kind of feather?

No, no feather