I have a question regarding blue skies... I have a shoot coming up where the client has requested deep blue skies, and high contrast, white clouds as backdrops.
Have they booked it with God?
Recently one of our brides got really upset that the sunset did not happen the way she imagined it. When we got to the jetty, we got an average sunset, not dramatic clouds, like she wanted. She was almost in tears. From :-) she quickly turned to :-(
Colouring and saturation to look very much like the shots that on this site link that Peter Weimann posted... (beautiful photography here, btw...)
http://home.fotocommunity.de/weimann/index.php?id=31851&g=28995&s=12
Look at the clouds at the lighthouse picture. THEY ARE BLUE. Probably used grad blue filter in addition to polariser. Possibly then manipulated digitally. I bet he used slide film, too - in order to achieve more vibrant colours.
My question is this: What is the best way to achieve this effect? Even with using polarizers, I have never been able to achieve such a deep blue colour. All of mine are generally leaning toward the cyan range of blue rather than, true blue. Like for example, in this shot:
http://www.tanyamayer.com/fairmaidens/lexi1.jpg
1. no clouds, no contrast
2. overexpose the foreground in relation to the background, this will darken the sky, maybe giving you the colour that you want
3. use polariser - may (should) help
---- (*)o(*) ---- Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
