I was asked if I could take some aerial photos of a archaeological dig, the light was terrible and the wind very bumpy meaning most of my pictures were trash.

I managed to get this one looking OK but was hoping I'd missed a few tricks and things can be improved, any advice appreciated.

http://www.californear.com/pics/archeology1s.jpg

Full size and untouched http://www.californear.com/pics/archeology.jpg

All the rest http://web.mac.com/aylesbury/iWeb/Jack%20Clark/Last%20Roll.html

P.S. I can't spell archaeology.

Have we got a member of Time Team on the forum then ? :D

Adjusted Levels

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v479/kbsub/archeology.jpg

Where abouts in Aylesbury?? I used to work there and have a couple of friends parents that live by there!

Had a quick play. And this is what I came up with. I'll have more of a play later

The 2 rings look like more parch marks. (guess who has an intrest in this subject!!! Albeit from a marine point of view)

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b122/dragonsmc/archeologytrial.jpg

http://www.alwyngreer.com/temp/arch.jpg

Shadow/Highlight, curve tweak, unsharp mask. Filename is arch.jpg because I can't spell archaeology either :)

Thanks everyone those are excellent. I'll pass them on.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0803/CharlieWhiskey/Miscelleanous/archeologyHC2r.jpg

Don't suppose you have it in RAW?

No RAW unfortunately, I need to check that my camera can shoot RAW - Canon Ixus 750