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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Mjollnir on October 25, 2012, 05:07:14 pm

Title: Which one, if any, and why?
Post by: Mjollnir on October 25, 2012, 05:07:14 pm: (http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8334/8105419551_a2030348e2_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/87368247@N00/8105419551/)
Eye of God #2, Cuyama Valley, NIK (http://www.flickr.com/photos/87368247@N00/8105419551/) by tanngrisnir3 (http://www.flickr.com/people/87368247@N00/), on Flickr

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8043/8102693085_21b2a4b0d1_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/87368247@N00/8102693085/)
Eye of God, Cuyama Valley, NIK (http://www.flickr.com/photos/87368247@N00/8102693085/) by tanngrisnir3 (http://www.flickr.com/people/87368247@N00/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Which one, if any, and why?
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on October 25, 2012, 05:18:55 pm: Burnt highlights kind of ruin both.
Title: Re: Which one, if any, and why?
Post by: RSL on October 25, 2012, 05:23:03 pm: #1 seems less clobbered than #2 but I agree with Slobodan.
Title: Re: Which one, if any, and why?
Post by: Mjollnir on October 25, 2012, 06:05:47 pm: Quote from: Slobodan Blagojevic on October 25, 2012, 05:18:55 pm
Burnt highlights kind of ruin both.

Yeah, I know. LR showed no clipped or burnt highlights in the histogram, but there you have it. Trying to darken those areas yields only very unattractive brownish patches.
Title: Re: Which one, if any, and why?
Post by: Bob_B on October 25, 2012, 07:04:34 pm: Try using LR's paintbrush tool with automask to tint the burnt white to a blue approaching the color of the sky. That might work.
Title: Re: Which one, if any, and why?
Post by: sierraman on October 25, 2012, 07:20:13 pm: I agree No. #1
Title: Re: Which one, if any, and why?
Post by: bdosserman on October 25, 2012, 11:27:28 pm: Definitely #1, but I'd crop off the top down to about 2:1 -- to me, the image is all about the darker clouds, the sun rays, and the hills in the distance, and the spot of blue is just a distraction from all that. Maybe I'm just crop-happy, but that's my take on it.

Brian
Title: Re: Which one, if any, and why?
Post by: stamper on October 26, 2012, 04:08:04 am: Layer Fill mode yellow. Blend mode multiply. Blend if, split sliders to target highlights and lower opacity till you get just a little yellow showing in the burnout highlights.
Title: Re: Which one, if any, and why?
Post by: francois on October 26, 2012, 05:26:40 am: I also vote for #1. The clipped areas are, in my opinion, less distracting in photo #2 but the hills and sky in #1 are much more interesting.