Thanks very much Jan. I actually used a photoshop action to blend the two images. It's an action I downloaded and it works really well. It certainly simplifies the process but finetuning is still required in terms of levels and curves.
Cheers James ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan van Wijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 6:57 PM Subject: Re: PESO - Dawn from the clifftops > 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 > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
