It's a ribbon...

AlanLichty

AlanLichty

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A winding road with neat scenery is always nice since the road offers such a nice leading line for the viewers eyes to follow. In this case you have some really nice light for this part of VoF as well. Nicely done.
 
JimFox

JimFox

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Hi Teresa,

It's awesome to have you here! And it sounds like you and Darcy had a really great trip out to VoF.

I like your take here, shooting that road as it snakes like a ribbon between the hills is something I highly enjoyed in VoF. Good job here with this, if you were able to recover a little more detail from the clouds that would be the only thing you could do to improve this fine image.
 
Teresa Gilbert

Teresa Gilbert

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JimFox said:
Hi Teresa,

It's awesome to have you here! And it sounds like you and Darcy had a really great trip out to VoF.

I like your take here, shooting that road as it snakes like a ribbon between the hills is something I highly enjoyed in VoF. Good job here with this, if you were able to recover a little more detail from the clouds that would be the only thing you could do to improve this fine image.
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Thank you! Darcy and I had a blast, as usual lol. I primarily use Lightroom for editing. I am (very) slowly learning Photoshop so any guidance you or anyone else can give me on pulling that detail would be greatly appreciated.
 
JimFox

JimFox

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Teresa Gilbert said:
Thank you! Darcy and I had a blast, as usual lol. I primarily use Lightroom for editing. I am (very) slowly learning Photoshop so any guidance you or anyone else can give me on pulling that detail would be greatly appreciated.
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As far as the highlight detail goes it actually won't matter too much between LR or Photoshop. The main key is when you are actually taking the photo. Just make sure that you are not blowing highlights when you shoot, the best way to do that is just watch your histogram in your camera. And also to have the blownout Highlight Blinkies turn on.

So what you will do is you take a shot, double check your histogram, and then if the highlights are blown you underexpose the next shot 2/3rds of a stop or so, just depends how much it's blown. Or if you look at the histogram and it's too much too the left, then you know you can adjust your exposure to overexpose 2/3rds or a stop more. The more you use your histogram the more you will get an idea of how much to then adjust the exposure from the first shot you took.
 
Teresa Gilbert

Teresa Gilbert

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So I tried playing around with layers in PS (trying to darken the highlights and sharpen up the clouds a little more)
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and this is what I came up with. Thoughts?
 
Martín el Escocés

Martín el Escocés

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Nice road shot, Teresa. I like the original with its less contrasty look the best. I never made it to here, though it was on a recent itinerary (due to pranging the rental :eek: :oops: and having to go away from Phoenix rather than LV). Looks as if we missed out on a nice area!
 
Teresa Gilbert

Teresa Gilbert

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Martín el Escocés said:
Nice road shot, Teresa. I like the original with its less contrasty look the best. I never made it to here, though it was on a recent itinerary (due to pranging the rental :eek: :oops: and having to go away from Phoenix rather than LV). Looks as if we missed out on a nice area!
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Thanks for the input, Martin. Hopefully you'll get another chance to get out there - there is definitely a lot to see!
 
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