On 10/29/06, [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
>

I like it!

cheers,
frank

-- 
"Sharpness is a bourgeois concept."  -Henri Cartier-Bresson

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