Big Stock Photo - Image 2

My second image was also shot in London and was by far the most well photographed piece in the project. It required very little editing before I could upload it to BigStockPhoto.com. Again, it is of a high rise block taken from a different angle, and the original image is shown below:

The only thing that I felt was necessary to change about this photo was, again, the sky colour. I followed exactly the same procedure as I did in image 1, by creating a new layer and simply painting a blue colour over the sky, before setting the layer blend parameter to Overlay. The finished result wasn't much different, as you can see from the before and after images below.

Before	After

I didn't occur to me until I had uploaded this picture to BigStockPhoto.com, but I could have made the sky look better by actually painting it a completely different colour. I could have used a nice light blue colour to make it look like a clear blue sky. This may have caused problems however with the reflections of the sky in the windows, as it would have made these the wrong colour if the sky was made blue. The window reflections would have been quite hard to edit to a blue colour that looked like it was reflected, so maybe it was best to leave it as it was.

Like with the previous image post, check back here or on the final post (when I write it!) to find out if the image got accepted into the BigStockPhoto.com library, and if not, why not!

I think this is a very good photograph that required very little editing. If anything was to be changed I might adjust the brightness and contrast, or the highlighting just to brighten up the bottom of the block which is slightly dark.