Hi James, On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:05:31 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>This is a shot I took in February and never really did anything with. I >revisited it on >the weekend armed with a few more months of experience with photoshop. Beatiful shot! I like the high dynamic range with good detail in the FG rocks and the nice sunrise colors with a little fog in the BG ... >I processed the RAW file twice, once for shadow detail and once for highlights >and >sky colour. I then blended them in PS CS2. Did you do any masking between the two layers ? Or did you just blend them ? >I tried to keep it looking natural so I >haven't gone overboard...I just tried to do enough to render the scene as I >saw it. >I've deliberately kept it a little on the dark side for that reason. Any >lighter and I >started to lose the colour saturation of the sky. If I compensated for that, >then it >started to look over ps'd and unnatural. To me, this result is as close as I >can get >to how the scene looked to the naked eye as the sun rose behind the cliff face. > >http://tinyurl.com/y3ak86 > >As always, comments and critique welcomed. Nice shot, good rendering! Regards, JvW ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jan van Wijk; http://www.dfsee.com/gallery -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
