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Tower of Babel Arches National Park
« on: February 09, 2019, 10:50:24 pm »

Having a little trouble nailing the color down on this
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Re: Tower of Babel Arches National Park
« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2019, 12:09:42 am »

My go-to technique to deal with such a situation, if all else fails, is to convert to black & white... :)  Blue clouds don't look natural so something went awry with selecting the correct temperature?   

Seriously though, it will look spectacular if you do a black and white conversion.  Those clouds are to die for!


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Re: Tower of Babel Arches National Park
« Reply #2 on: February 10, 2019, 12:14:05 am »

I agree with Nirjan.
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Re: Tower of Babel Arches National Park
« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2019, 12:57:18 am »

This looks like a canned HDR, which tends to produce garish colors. Not to mention huge halos around the rock.

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Re: Tower of Babel Arches National Park
« Reply #4 on: February 10, 2019, 02:08:40 am »

This looks like a canned HDR, which tends to produce garish colors. Not to mention huge halos around the rock.
My point exactly.


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Re: Tower of Babel Arches National Park
« Reply #5 on: February 10, 2019, 10:27:46 am »

Too much color for Utah's color country! :-) Here's a b&w conversion through Nik, Wet Rocks with canned blue filter, then burning the halo and dodging the monolith. I think I have something similar of the Tower from maybe 40 years ago during my previous life as a b&w film Ansel Adams wannabe. My apologies in advance if I've taken too much liberty.
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Re: Tower of Babel Arches National Park
« Reply #6 on: February 10, 2019, 10:42:48 am »

Larry, that halo is like an eternal flame, you may burn it for thousand of years, it will still be there 😉
« Last Edit: February 10, 2019, 05:54:06 pm by Slobodan Blagojevic »
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Re: Tower of Babel Arches National Park
« Reply #7 on: February 10, 2019, 12:16:59 pm »

Very true, Slobodan! Did what I could do quickly to help bring it down:-)
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Re: Tower of Babel Arches National Park
« Reply #8 on: February 10, 2019, 12:19:40 pm »

There is a much simpler solution: for God’s sake, do not ever use a canned HDR.

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Re: Tower of Babel Arches National Park
« Reply #9 on: February 10, 2019, 01:16:37 pm »

Thanks everyone - it's back to the drawing board!  :D
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Re: Tower of Babel Arches National Park
« Reply #10 on: February 10, 2019, 04:04:47 pm »

Alternatively process the land using your HDR with perhaps a touch less saturation and mask in a sky that has not been HDR'd. Ken
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Re: Tower of Babel Arches National Park
« Reply #11 on: February 10, 2019, 05:52:14 pm »

Alternatively process the land using your HDR with perhaps a touch less saturation and mask in a sky that has not been HDR'd. Ken

I learned about those haloes the hard way, I'd not noticed them around the branches of the trees I'd published until somebody pointed it out to me.
I benefited by learning something I wasn't aware of and that the scene didn't need HDR at all  :( :(
Now I  know a little better  ;D
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