Monument Valley

JimFox

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Here is mine. I actually made 2 virtual copies, over exposed one, under exposed one. On the normal I lowered highlights & brought up shadows, added a touch of magenta and warming, noise reduction & sharpening. Then selected them all and synced them. Opened as layers in photoshop. Put the normal on the bottom, under in middle, over on top. Shut off the over layer & worked on under. Added a mask, image, apply image, then clicked on the mask command "L" and did a level adjust. Then turned back on the over, added a mask and did same. Clicked on all layers except the normal one, went to layers, group from layers. Then did command, option shift "E". Saved and finished a few little things in Lightroom when it put it back in there. Just keeping my blending in my head LOL. That damn finger is pissing me off.View attachment 3067
Hey Darcy, you are getting it! :)

Now what about the road? Doesn't it feel too bright to you?
 

Darcy Grizzle

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Hey Darcy, you are getting it! :)

Now what about the road? Doesn't it feel too bright to you?
yes very much so & that is where I struggle. I was thinking I could brush it darker in lightroom with the magic brush, or I may take it back into ps & use the brush since I am starting to get used to working with it. I really want the road blacker!
 

Darcy Grizzle

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Then depending on what I was going to use it for I might go back into ps & use the lasso tool & remove the couple road posts & the sign, and zoom & remove the cars & maybe even the house with fill & content aware!
 

AlanLichty

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Hey Alan, working on these jpgs reminds me of the old days before Raw... :)
I was using RAW with my Canon D60 from almost the day I got the camera so the only time I have really worked with jpegs is from what I always considered "snapshot" digital cameras. Canon had software that allowed me to make exposure changes to the basic RAW image with TIFF outputs and I was layering those in Photoshop 6.0. I have had a bunch of the point and shoot digital cameras but never spent large amounts of time trying to make the results into something fancy.

That "first landscape" image I posted in Dan's thread was made from a Canon .CRW file which was their original version of RAW for the D30 and D60 DSLRs.
 

Darcy Grizzle

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Girlfriend, I will come show you how I did this, then you can work it & apply your vision to your most beautiful photograph :).
 

Darcy Grizzle

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I do have a question on this though...so after you crop like this do you need to do any resizing as I would think for printing purposes you may need to?
 

JimFox

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yes very much so & that is where I struggle. I was thinking I could brush it darker in lightroom with the magic brush, or I may take it back into ps & use the brush since I am starting to get used to working with it. I really want the road blacker!
Use a Layer Mask.... and then just darken the Levels Midtones to taste. No Brushing needed... :)
 

Ryan10

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It's a great vista, but the sky is really boring. As others have done, I'd crop out a lot of the sky, but I'd also convert to a high contrast B&W while "crushing the blacks" a little.
 
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