St John's Lighthouse, Northern Ireland

[MartinSpence]

This was taken on a stormy morning.

To see other photos from Northern Ireland, check out my website.

http://landscape.martinspencephotography.co.uk/

[davidh202]

Martin,
you have wonderful moody image there. Seems like there is some WA distortion (evident on the lighthouse only)
A suggestion for the only fix it needs, is to use the warp tool and straighten out the lighthouse and fix that halo around it
both very easy to do if you have PS and it would be a tremendous improvement

David

[Paulo Bizarro]

Very nice image. Indeed the keystoning effect on the lighthouse is easily correctable, but I think it is a minor detail, and does not impact the overall mood of the image. I also had a look in your website, some great images there as well. I particularly like the one with the sun and snow, and the one with the tress and flowers.

[Tony Jay]

Wonderful image.
The detail in the clouds is fantastic and provides a great backdrop - really makes the image.

Tony Jay

[MartinSpence]

Thanks David

What is WA distortion?

How would I fix the halo?

Cheers for your feedback..

[MartinSpence]

Very nice image. Indeed the keystoning effect on the lighthouse is easily correctable, but I think it is a minor detail, and does not impact the overall mood of the image. I also had a look in your website, some great images there as well. I particularly like the one with the sun and snow, and the one with the tress and flowers.

Thanks for the feedback Paulo

What is the keystoning effect?  How would I get rid of that?

The sunset & snow shot was taken 3 years ago at the back of our house, haven't seen it look so beautiful since then 

Cheers
M

[MartinSpence]

Wonderful image.
The detail in the clouds is fantastic and provides a great backdrop - really makes the image.

Tony Jay

Thanks Tony

[francois]

Thanks for the feedback Paulo

What is the keystoning effect?  How would I get rid of that?

The sunset & snow shot was taken 3 years ago at the back of our house, haven't seen it look so beautiful since then 

Cheers
M

Beautiful and breath taking, really!

Congrats.

Keystoning effect is visible on the lighthouse, it leans toward the right side of the frame. It's a normal effect when you tilt your camera up or down. Photoshop or any photo-oriented software can correct that easily.

The halo is the thin white outline visible around the lighthouse. Again Photoshop can correct it.

FWIW, I don't see these two "issues" as major problem.

[MartinSpence]

Thanks Francois - I'll edit it again.

[sdwilsonsct]

Lots of good stuff here, Martin, but the sky has more contrast than I prefer.

[davidh202]

WA- wide angle

The way I have fixed these types of halos on a rather straight edged object would be to do a selection of the light house with the quick selection tool making sure you stay on the inside edge of the halo,  invert the selection and use the clone tool just to the outside of the halo and run it along the edge to replace the halo . Your inverted selection protects the lighthouse from cloned pixels replacement.
Learned this little trick a long time ago here...   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5ivRKOX4v8    starts at abuot half way through at 13 minutes.
David

[MartinSpence]

WA- wide angle

The way I have fixed these types of halos on a rather straight edged object would be to do a selection of the light house with the quick selection tool making sure you stay on the inside edge of the halo,  invert the selection and use the clone tool just to the outside of the halo and run it along the edge to replace the halo . Your inverted selection protects the lighthouse from cloned pixels replacement.
Learned this little trick a long time ago here...   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5ivRKOX4v8    starts at abuot half way through at 13 minutes.
David

thanks David

I'll try that..