Improving Pictures

Another time I was on the road to several locations and at the last minute I was asked to swing by a location and shoot a set up in a quarry, I arrived in mid afternoon and a storm had just passed. The sky was gray and as the afternoon proceeded it wasn't getting any better. So I took some shots of the equipment that was wanted and here are the results.

Not very impressive, so I went to work and sharpened the picture a little, carefully striped out the gray sky, and added a different blue sky with fluffy clouds. What a difference adding a blue sky can do for a picture, it brings out the best of the colors in the picture.

At the same location was another shot they wanted, here is the unaltered shot.

Not at all impressive, so I did alittle Photoshop and achieved these results.

This shot was used in a equipment calendar and in a Job story in a publication.