Really, as happens to us all, the timing was wrong. To get a really good shot one must luck out and be there at the right time or be willing to come back at the right time.
All the PS'ing in the world won't make a shot like this as good as the original taken at the right time in the right light would. Yosemite is stunning but this shot is not. It's just a matter of timing and light. Given that, the composition needs cleaned up around the edges. The small portions of trees and plant material encroaching should be cropped because they detract from the scene. Tom C. >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: PESO - Yosemite Reflection #1 >Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:57:56 +0000 > >You're not going to be able to fix the sky with the highlight burn tool. >But the mountains could be improved with the midtone burn tool. The sky is >best fixed through replacement. >Paul > -------------- Original message ---------------------- >From: Paul Sorenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Marnie - > > > > Layers are your friend(s)... ;>) > > > > I've never had much luck w/the Burn Tool. Things seem to get a little > > muddy when using it. I played w/your pix a little and came up w/this. > > I'll remove it from the web w/in 24 hours...sooner if you'd like. > > > > http://home.earthlink.net/~allaround6/quickpage/marnie's_yosemite.jpg > > > > http://tinyurl.com/29xlct > > > > The background mountains were selected and copied to a new layer and the > > blend mode for that layer changed to "multiply". That made the > > mountains in shadow a little too dark and the sunlit ones still too > > light. I hit the mountains in shadow w/the erase tool at about 50% > > opacity and re-copied just the sunlit peaks to a third layer, applied > > the "multiply" blend mode again and flattened the image to a new jpg. > > > > I think it defines the mountains in the background a little better. > > > > HTH > > > > -p > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 10/28/2007 8:06:58 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Wow! That's stunning. i'm surprised you didn't show it earlier. Burn > > > in the peaks in the top half, and it's a first class shot. Good >work. > > > Paul > > > > > > ============== > > > Thanks, Paul. I already burned them in some, not sure I can burn them >in a > > > lot more. They were pretty blown. Though I admit I haven't done a lot >of > > > layering with what I have done and I could play with it again. > > > > > > It's just a fantastic scene. Possibly one of my other reflection >shots will > > > do better, but they all require a bit of post processing. > > > > > > I've been holding them in reserve, because of the above. I may post >another > > > take later. > > > > > > It was incredibly beautiful, for sure. > > > > > > Thanks for looking. > > > > > > Marnie aka Doe :-) > > > > > > --------------------------------------------- > > > Warning: I am now filtering my email, so you may be censored. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ************************************** See what's new at >http://www.aol.com > > > > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >follow > > the directions. > > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >[email protected] >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
