Thank you Boris. I just wasn't quite able to keep the sky colours saturated without the double processing as the sun is just hidden by the cliff face.
James ----- Original Message ----- From: "Boris Liberman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 8:39 PM Subject: Re: PESO - Dawn from the clifftops > If I haven't read in your message that it was processed twice and then > blended, I wouldn't have guessed. It is done really well. > > I think this is great *work*! > > On 10/30/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[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. >> >> I processed the RAW file twice, once for shadow detail and once for >> highlights and >> sky colour. I then blended them in PS CS2. 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. >> >> Cheers >> James >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> > > > -- > Boris > > -- > 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
