Looks good Kyle. It's always amazing to me how an image can be inetrpreted so many different ways and still look right.
Lets Play 6-30-2018
- Thread starter Ben Egbert
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Kyle Jones
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I think you made a good call cropping out the white part at the bottom. I wanted to leave the greenery but this works better for me.I'm glad you guys finally got the horizon straight
I would like to see the sky darkened along the horizon, a bit more.
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Here is my take. The bright rock in the foreground was a distraction for me so I cropped it off. Some selective color adjustment in the sky to tone down the cyan. A touch of selective dodging/burning.
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Kyle Jones
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Another shot from me - going for the crop too.
Darcy Grizzle
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I had it cropped but decided to just make the white rock look as though it is in the cloud shadow as I liked the greenery at the bottom. I too am glad ya'll straightened your horizons, that drives me crazy for some reason LOLOL. I had a hard time with the blue of the sky so I had to go a little brighter in the whole sky to get to a closer to a real sky color!
Darcy Grizzle
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Jim I think the clouds have some purple pixellation or what do I call it...like outlines around them. I see mine does too on the top right cloud where it switches to the dark color. I have to go fix that hahaha.
Roger Bailey
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Here is my take on this. I personally felt the white rock in the foreground was a bit too much and distracted from the rest of the photograph. So I cropped it in a more panoramic size so I could leave the rest of the photo in place. I changed the colors some and also sensed a little out of plane on the original so shifted it to be more level to my eye. Nice Original photograph, what a beautiful place!
Wow, what a turn out, much approeciated folks, and you are all homing in on the real second problem, the proportion of sky to land. If you crop the bottom, it gets sky heavy. If you crop the the top it takes away the best part of clouds and leaves a lot of the central blue area between the horizon and clouds.
It is obvious to me in hine sight that a 3 stop gard was way too much as most of you needed to reduce luminance in the top half. Also the filter was the cause of the color cast.
It is obvious to me in hine sight that a 3 stop gard was way too much as most of you needed to reduce luminance in the top half. Also the filter was the cause of the color cast.
Darcy Grizzle
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I went back & I believe fixed that line in my cloud, and decided the sky was a little too bright for the color of the clouds and did some overall warming. I think now though that I lost detail in the mountains LOL.
Hey Darcy, If you feel the blue is too dark, just use Selective Color and adjust only the blue in the sky leaving the reds, yellows and whites of the sky alone. Doing a global adjustment for the whole sky makes the clouds feel washed out.
And thanks for the catch on mine, it looks like a red halo around each cloud, I am not sure how or where I got that into the photo. Thanks for the heads up.
You need some more contrast put back into the ground layer.
Ryan10
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Ryan, I like your version, this weeks voting is going to be tough.
Darcy Grizzle
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Ryan nice motion blur, love it!