Can anything be done to this Eurofighter photo?

MugabesDeadCat · 25 Aug 2011

We spent a few days down Lincolnshire last week, and whilst there we visited the BBMF at Coningsby (well worth a visit BTW). Anyway, just down the road sits the end of the runway so we thought we'd take a look down there as the son is an air cadet who is planning on joining the RAF.

I managed to get this photo of him standing there with a Typhoon coming into land. The son loves it and wouldn't mind it putting onto a canvas for his wall. :lol:

Just wondering though if pp could do anything with this photo though to make it more interesting?? I was an awful day when it was taken, and it's in JPEG only. I'm a complete noob when it comes to pp so any advice is very welcome. The only programs I own is Adobe Lightroom and Canon DPP, but I'm not very familiar with Lightroom.

EDIT: the pic isn't showing for some reason. Any ideas?

jon ryan · 25 Aug 2011

MugabesDeadCat said:
We spent a few days down Lincolnshire last week, and whilst there we visited the BBMF at Coningsby (well worth a visit BTW). Anyway, just down the road sits the end of the runway so we thought we'd take a look down there as the son is an air cadet who is planning on joining the RAF.

I managed to get this photo of him standing there with a Typhoon coming into land. The son loves it and wouldn't mind it putting onto a canvas for his wall. Just wondering though if pp could do anything with this photo though to make it more interesting?? I was an awful day when it was taken, and it's in JPEG only. I'm a complete noob when it comes to pp so any advice is very welcome. The only programs I own is Adobe Lightroom and Canon DPP, but I'm not very familiar with Lightroom.

EDIT: the pic isn't showing for some reason. Any ideas?

It's a stealth Typhoon? I can see it by c&p-ing the image code into a browser, but not on this page.

MugabesDeadCat · 25 Aug 2011

jon ryan said:
It's a stealth Typhoon? I can see it by c&p-ing the image code into a browser, but not on this page.

I've switched from Flickr to Picasa Web Albums, still no joy.

jon ryan · 25 Aug 2011

I can have a go with photobucket if you like?

Delta Skies · 25 Aug 2011

Hi Mark. You'd pasted the link to the page rather than the jpg. Here's the image for you.

jon ryan · 25 Aug 2011

Sorted then!

I've chucked some PSE 9 over it - opened as RAW, played with curves, high-pass sharpen, crop:

wallyboy · 25 Aug 2011

just a thought if you copy and paste maybe just the head of son in corner of pic, with maybe some relevant text of the day

Vantage · 26 Aug 2011

I changed the sky to give it a little more detail and a couple of adjustments in PS and slight crop. I tried to keep it within the constraints of the original.

jon ryan · 26 Aug 2011

Frankly I'm slightly amazed that no-one has added a few explosions and the odd Lancaster, this place being this place...

admirable · 26 Aug 2011

Muttley99 · 26 Aug 2011

Vantage said:
I changed the sky to give it a little more detail and a couple of adjustments in PS and slight crop. I tried to keep it within the constraints of the original.

I like that edit, nice work.

MugabesDeadCat · 28 Aug 2011

Vantage said:
I changed the sky to give it a little more detail and a couple of adjustments in PS and slight crop. I tried to keep it within the constraints of the original.

That looks fabulous mate!! Would I be able to do that with Lightroom?? The original has a resolution of 3888x2592. Would that be okay for printing a canvas of maybe 50.8cmx40.6cm?