Thank you Dario. I find I shoot quite a lot of landscapes vertically and I often prefer to include a fair bit of foreground detail in my compositions, whether vertical or horizontal.
James ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dario Bonazza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 10:40 PM Subject: Re: PESO - Dawn from the clifftops >I like the picture very much, probably because it is the kind of >composition > I often try when shooting landscapes ;-) > By only framing the distant mountains and sky would result in a typical > postcard, while I find this "deep view" far more interesting. Well done! > > Dario > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 5:05 AM > Subject: PESO - Dawn from the clifftops > > >> 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 > > > -- > 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
