Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: maddogmurph on February 23, 2016, 09:35:36 pm
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So I'm just going to keep dumping on you guys for opinions because I have 6+ months of backlogged processing going on here.
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I like it, it has a "Mordor" feel to it:)
Not sure about the "burned" sun, difficult to handle in any case.
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This one is worth the "dump". Very interesting image!
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Wow, the sun in the frame wasn't easy to handle but you did very well. I like the golden or bronze colors on the rocks and in the sky and the fantastic shapes/textures of the foreground.
Well done!
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There are many great things about this image...the rocks in foreground, the moodiness, color and tone, the rocks structures in background and how it all relates. The really big problem with the image is the blown out hot-spot. With exceptions, the eye is often drawn to the brightest element in a frame like this. In this case it's at the expense of all the rest. I don't know what your shooting situation was of course or what it is typically - but in an instance like this I would get at least five or six "in a bracket below"...-1, -2 etc. and then blend in detail to bring that down a bit.
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There are many great things about this image...the rocks in foreground, the moodiness, color and tone, the rocks structures in background and how it all relates. The really big problem with the image is the blown out hot-spot. With exceptions, the eye is often drawn to the brightest element in a frame like this. In this case it's at the expense of all the rest. I don't know what your shooting situation was of course or what it is typically - but in an instance like this I would get at least five or six "in a bracket below"...-1, -2 etc. and then blend in detail to bring that down a bit.
Do you have any suggestions given there is no dark bracket exposure to work from?
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Nice drama and great sense of distance. I can stare at this for a long time.
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Do you have any suggestions given there is no dark bracket exposure to work from?
Use a brush (with soft edges) for negative clarity, or even soft focus (negative sharpening, more than -50 in LR, for instance).
Another option is to use a Spot Removal tool in LR (or similar effect in PS or other programs) to patch a nearby area with low opacity, so that it appears that the sun is behind clouds (as I assume it actually was).
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I dunno, hows this?
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Looks good.
I like the 'liquid metal' look of the water.
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Yes to the second, modified version (not that the first wasn't print-worthy).
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excellent. I like both composition and tone/colours (not pumped as we often see) management.
All the best,
sandro
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I dunno, hows this?
Yes! That's a big improvement. You've removed the real eye-catching flaw in the otherwise fine original.
Jeremy
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I dunno, hows this?
This one is an improvement, but I don't think you are quite there yet. The cloned in area is substantially softer-looking than the rest of the clouds. Bring back some of the "edge" - by redoing what you did but with more contrast or adding contrast to what's there - and it will be more successful.
Great colours overall. I'm wondering, though if could stand to be brighter in the mid-tones to liven it up a bit.
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This one is an improvement, but I don't think you are quite there yet...
The three methods I proposed can be used either individually or in combination. The strength or proportion of each is more a trial and error than a precise formula.
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I like the first treatment, and I REALLY like the second, but mostly I commend you on dealing well with what are (for me at least) some of the hardest lighting conditions to shoot/process to a high level.
(And thanks to Slobodan for the suggestions - I may go back and try a few of them on some older images..)
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This one is an improvement, but I don't think you are quite there yet. The cloned in area is substantially softer-looking than the rest of the clouds. Bring back some of the "edge" - by redoing what you did but with more contrast or adding contrast to what's there - and it will be more successful.
Is a little softness in that area really a problem, Terry? It is still a representation of a very bright light, after all. It didn't bother me.
Jeremy
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Is a little softness in that area really a problem, Terry? It is still a representation of a very bright light, after all. It didn't bother me.
Jeremy
To me, anyway, it doesn't quite fit the rest of the photo. Not a huge problem.
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I think that's a little too soft and blurred like a cotton ball. Most important is to make sure that hot spot in sky "matches"/"clearly relates" to its reflection in water. The spot in water is pretty intense...but the sky element doesn't really correspond. Also, getting the surrounding tones of the sun area just a little bit more reddish would relate more to rest of sky where light is coming through clouds
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This is real nice!