I see most of you use some kind of post-processing on your photos, or I'm just a very crappy photographer, because nothing I shoot looks as good
So I tried something on my own, and after spending almost 2 hours playing around with photoshop... I didn't do much anything
I ask you to try and do to this simple photo whatever you would usually do to your photos and explain what/why you did it (no need for step-by-step instructions, just basic "algorithm").
Original (resized): orig.jpg
Original (big, 1.5MB): DSC_0434.jpg
This is what I did (resized): edited.jpg
I cleaned up some dirt on car, then did 4 masks for car itself, for snow, for dark trees and for light trees and tried to adjust them separately (mostly curves).
Doesn't give that sharp and contrast effect as most of your lens flair photos
This is what pdanev did in few minutes: mytry.jpg
Show me your skillz plz
So I tried something on my own, and after spending almost 2 hours playing around with photoshop... I didn't do much anything
I ask you to try and do to this simple photo whatever you would usually do to your photos and explain what/why you did it (no need for step-by-step instructions, just basic "algorithm").
Original (resized): orig.jpg
Original (big, 1.5MB): DSC_0434.jpg
This is what I did (resized): edited.jpg
I cleaned up some dirt on car, then did 4 masks for car itself, for snow, for dark trees and for light trees and tried to adjust them separately (mostly curves).
Doesn't give that sharp and contrast effect as most of your lens flair photos
This is what pdanev did in few minutes: mytry.jpg
Show me your skillz plz