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Countryside south of Mt Horeb WIRelated content
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Great shot! The tech information that you told that other fella down bottom helped.
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thank you, I am glad it helped!
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camera technique, photoshop technique, or both?
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In short I exposed for the sky leaving the ground about 2-stops dark.
In camera raw I lightened this using a fair amount of fill light, and I evened everything out by using a graduated neutral density filter to darken the sky a little.
Within photoshop I made selective and global contrast adjustments with a few curve layers, some with masking. Finally I brought out the color using Nik Color EFEX pro [link] . The orange and blue was already there, I just intensified it using a bi-color warm-cool filter.
Finally I applied a little unsharp mask to the image for sharpening.
Color EFEX is a great plug in, I highly recommend it. If you get into black and white check out Silver EFEX as well, I do all my black and white conversion with it.
I hope this helps
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Ohh now I understand ... you have asked me what technique I want to know ... damn I am so stupid ...
Anyway ... thank you for your answer ... I was hoping for answer like this.
I'll try the software that you have mention (Color Efex Pro). I am using photoshop and lightroom already, but I dont work with layers ... I just set settings and I am playing a lot with graduated filter in lightrom ...
Well thank you again and sorry for my misunderstanding in my previous post
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no problem my friend! glad to help out
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I love the lighting on this it's really dramatic. Great work.
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thank you, glad you like it!
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thank you, its a little embellished, but they were all there! glad you like it
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Thanks as always Jesse!
1 exposure actually, just like we discussed, exposed for the highlights and brought up the low lights with fill light and a GND filter in camera raw.
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Very nice. Well done exposure then, that is tough to bring up the darks that much when shooting into the sun like that.
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The clouds knocked a stop or 2 off the high end, so it was JUST enough for me to do it. I was happy with the result, the noise level was virtually non-existent.
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wow that is so beautiful! i've seen similar shots before but for some reason this one caught me. i mean, it just looks like paradise. i thought, this would be Eden; to sit in that field with someone you love and watch that sun goes down.. what more could there be?
great picture
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thank you! it was my first time shooting in the countryside, took a lot of driving before I found the right place for this
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yeah sometimes you have to look for a spot and then sometimes you just stumble on one.
it paid off though
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