The Beach at Sundeland

Taken on the way to "The Boxing Day Dip" on Seaburn Beach in Sunderland. Over 200 people ran in to the sea, over a beach covered in snow. I kept my fleece and scarf and hat on...

-- BenStephenson - 01 Jan 2010

02 Jan 2010 - 17:58 -- JohnAshford

Without having been there, I'm guessing about how well lit the scene was. However a quick adjustment of levels might make it a wee bit less north-east sombre?

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03 Jan 2010 - 20:09 -- RodBird

I agree with John. There's a first time for everything.

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13 Jan 2010 - 10:03 -- RogerNorton

Re.: revision R5 I like this simple image but lighting was against you. This shows in the histogram with no information in the darkest and lightest stops. Yes, the first thing is to adjust levels to compensate. I then tried the following: - in levels select the mid point eye dropper and click on the roadway which is assumed to be neutral grey. This corrects for colour cast. Then select the sky with the magic wand, copy it to a new layer and set blend mode to multiply. This darkens and brings out colour in the sky. Finally, go to Filter>Render>Lighting effects and select omni directional lighting. Place the centre point of the effect behind the lighthouse and play with the settings to give a slight lightening as if the lighthouse were back-lit. I'm not sure whether the latter filter exists in Elements but there is an alternative: make a circular selection, feather it heavily, increase the brightness using the mid-tone slider in levels and If necessary boost the yellow and red highlights using color balance.

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13 Jan 2010 - 14:19 -- JohnAshford

Roger: I like your effects except for the loss of the snow on the sand which is a local speciality. It would be unprincipled to add a light in the lighthouse now, would it not!

Omni is available in PS Elements though well buried. Follow filters>render>lighting effects and look in the pull down menu in the formatting pallette.

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13 Jan 2010 - 17:43 -- JackRuss

Hello Ben I know your picture was all to do with the snow and the people swiming but I used a Holga filter from silver efex pro. if you don't know what a Holga is then do a search on a holga cameras. It is an aquired taste but I think it give the picture some thing but not to everyones taste?

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