I rather like this one. Your skills look pretty good. It doesn't seem to be overdone. I especially like the composition. The sky helps emphasize the rock structures.
Nice work! -- Best regards, Bruce Sunday, October 29, 2006, 8:05:31 PM, you wrote: jtca> This is a shot I took in February and never really did jtca> anything with. I revisited it on jtca> the weekend armed with a few more months of experience with photoshop. jtca> I processed the RAW file twice, once for shadow detail and once for highlights and jtca> sky colour. I then blended them in PS CS2. I tried to jtca> keep it looking natural so I jtca> haven't gone overboard...I just tried to do enough to jtca> render the scene as I saw it. jtca> I've deliberately kept it a little on the dark side for jtca> that reason. Any lighter and I jtca> started to lose the colour saturation of the sky. If I jtca> compensated for that, then it jtca> started to look over ps'd and unnatural. To me, this jtca> result is as close as I can get jtca> to how the scene looked to the naked eye as the sun rose behind the cliff face. jtca> http://tinyurl.com/y3ak86 jtca> As always, comments and critique welcomed. jtca> Cheers jtca> James -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
