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Great location, wish I was there!
The water level can easily be made to be at the 1/3 level by cropping. What is harder to correct is the blown out highlights in the clouds. That 's a tricky thing though. If you expose for the clouds, the rest might get too dark. There are techniques (and even PS plugins) to take two images, one exposed for the clouds, and one exposed for the rest, and merge them together into one higher dynamic range image. Those images will have to be taken from a tripod so they align. Barthold |
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Barthold,
Do you know where I would find such a plug-in? Regards, Steve PS: Sorry to interupt on the topic! |
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My first visit here, looks a great BB
![]() I think ClearPhoto has the image about right (OK adjust the horizon to get it level and lower it a little but probably needs a bit more water than lowering it to a 3rd). The large body of water acts to balance the large land mass on each side and the horizon near the center, helps draw the eye to the meeting of the 2 cliffs in shadow with the water and the sun lit view beyond. The composition is very strong but as mentioned by Barthold, the highlights are too blown out and I also find the cliffs a little too dark. A good landscape shot. Steve, Clearphoto Not seen a plug-in but if you want to understand the technique mentioned by Barthold it’s called “Blended Exposures”. You can find a good tutorial here http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tu...xposures.shtml. Also check out “Contrast Masking” here http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tu..._masking.shtml. You can get a good effect by processing the same image twice in a scanner if film or from a RAW file, producing one version with good highlights and one with good shadow detail. |
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Hum same eye, using my right alone rotates the image a few degrees clockwise.
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In all fairness, regarding the blown highlights, today I was noticing some nearby snow-capped mountains surrounded by pale white clouds on an otherwise dreary winter Oregon sky and realized that there is no way to capture the total tonal range my eyes were seeing. The highlights looked blown to my eye, so I know the camera couldn't capture them. Short of taking two shots, one exposing for the highlights and another exposing for the shadows then merging them together, the shot would be well outside the range of flim, much less slide or digital.
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Ohenry: Though I think the situation you described is bordering on the give-up-and-find-another-pic category, sometimes you can copy and paste the photo on top of itself, then use "Multiply," adjusting opacity until it's nearly right, and finally, erasing parts of that second layer where necessary to reveal the background layer. Every now and then, it can rescue a photo. |
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Yes, I've used a similar method with the multiply feature to pull out some shadows.
The vesatility of Photoshop continues to amaze me and experimenting comes up with some really interesting results. Unfortunately, I normally forget how I accomplish the results :lol: Thank goodness for history states |
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Barthold http://www.fredmiranda.com/article_1/ http://www.fredmiranda.com/DRI/index.html http://luminous-landscape.com/tutori...xposures.shtml http://luminous-landscape.com/tutori...blending.shtml http://www.bardill.net/projects/phot...dynamic-range/ http://www.erik-krause.de/blending/ http://www.multimediaphoto.com/photomatix/index.html |
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Ohenri, et al., a yes, the problem with tonal range (or its lack, rather), aka lattitude, is also my biggest complaint about the digital medium--and it was the first thing I was going to comment about re: the Lake Louise photo.
About the only thing I've personally found of any help (I haven't tried ND filters yet) is to use the camera's built-in contrast control and lower the contrast by as many steps as necessary (and often that's still not enough), then expose for the white clouds, but give them a step of so of additional exposure compensation. I did spring for a polarizing filter recently, and that helps tone down hot spots, but once again, a EVF is terrible for trying to judge when the hot spots have actually cooled off--about the only alternatives are to continually remove the filter and turn it in front of my eye, then reinstall it and hopefully remember where the position is, or else use P mode and watch the exposure time as I turn the filter; I can sometimes tell when the filter is cutting down the glare by watching the shutter time. |
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Norm, a polarizing filter is something I keep promising to buy but I keep putting it off in favor of other things. What brand and type did you get and are you happy with it?
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