here you go: I like the composition of this shot but that is about it. See what you can do with it and let me know what you did. The color, exposure, noise, contrast and WB seem to be...

drg Loc: Portland, OR

I like the composition of this shot but that is about it. See what you can do with it and let me know what you did. The color, exposure, noise, contrast and WB seem to be off. If I correct the exposure of the foreground using the graduated filter in LR5 (and using the histogram and my eye to confirm it), it still seems off to me. When I correct the WB still off. I haven't totally given up on it yet but I wanted to see what my UHH masters can do with it. This is learning for me. Thanks. Also this is straight from the camera. Any edits I made were reset which is why I know how it seems to be off.

Please post your edits as originals.

buffoto Loc: Wesern New York

drg wrote:

I like the composition of this shot but that is ab... (show quote)

drg

first I ran your photo through Lightroom 5 and opened up the shadows, cleaned up some of the noise and increased the clarity, sharpness and saturation and saturation. I then ran it through Topaz adjust and played with various settings. I settled on classic collection - photo pop. Returned to LR5 and tweaked the light, shadows and highlights in the tone curve. Total time aprox. 12 minutes. Hope you like it.

buffoto Loc: Wesern New York

buffoto wrote:

drg

first I ran your photo through Lightroom 5 and opened up the shadows, cleaned up some of the noise and increased the clarity, sharpness and saturation and saturation. I then ran it through Topaz adjust and played with various settings. I settled on classic collection - photo pop. Returned to LR5 and tweaked the light, shadows and highlights in the tone curve. Total time aprox. 12 minutes. Hope you like it.

Oops. it didn't go through; one more try

jdubu Loc: San Jose, CA

Just a quick ACR adjust and then Viveza for tweaking. Not sure what you envision the white balance to be, but this was to my eye only.

total time about 5 minutes.

drg Loc: Portland, OR

jdubu wrote:

Just a quick ACR adjust and then Viveza for tweaking. Not sure what you envision the white balance to be, but this was to my eye only.

total time about 5 minutes.

What is viveza jdubu? can you make the image downloadable please?

jdubu Loc: San Jose, CA

drg wrote:

What is viveza jdubu? can you make the image downloadable please?

Viveza is one of the Nik software programs. I use it a lot to bring in structure, tweak color and brightness. All the plug ins have great possibilities in PP, but I seem to always go to Viveza as a mainstay.

Captain C also has touted this program in other posts, if I remember right.

Sorry, thought I had clicked original in the first post. Also, didn't work at all on the noise in the photo.

PS: just fooled around in ACR to limit the noise, worked OK, but the landscape got a little soft. Depends on what you want to do with the photo eventually as to how to proceed with processing. didn't post it again. Hope to see other's work on this.

bunuweld Loc: Arizona

drg wrote:

I like the composition of this shot but that is ab... (show quote)

In Adobe Photoshop selected the foreground and increased exposure. Then selected the sky and made it a separate layer and gave it a bluish tint. Then flattened image.

Bill Houghton Loc: New York area

You know you have a galaxy captured in this shot.

bunuweld Loc: Arizona

Bill Houghton wrote:

You know you have a galaxy captured in this shot.

It looks like our own milky galaxy :)

Bill Houghton Loc: New York area

bunuweld wrote:

It looks like our own milky galaxy :)

I have circled the area and then inlarged it, I don't think it's our Milky Way.

drg Loc: Portland, OR

It's Andromeda. Correct me if I am wrong but yeah, I noticed that when I first started making night images. Thank you all for working on this image. The Milky Way is the large colored cloudy mess at the top of the image.

jdubu Loc: San Jose, CA

drg wrote:

It's Andromeda. Correct me if I am wrong but yeah, I noticed that when I first started making night images. Thank you all for working on this image. The Milky Way is the large colored cloudy mess at the top of the image.

That would have been some trick to shoot the milky way from this perspective... you would be the king of NASA!

bunuweld Loc: Arizona

Bill Houghton wrote:

I have circled the area and then inlarged it, I don't think it's our Milky Way.

I thought you were referring to the large diagonal mass of the Milky Way. Hard to tell which minute details may represent other galaxies. The small detail could be one, perhaps the Andromeda.

RmcBUDDY Loc: Morris County, NJ

drg wrote:

I like the composition of this shot but that is ab... (show quote)

This is how I fixed it. I hope it is close to what you saw.

Art Grandpa Loc: Washougal, WA

Instead of trying to recover shadow detail you should consider taking the same shot twice, exposing once for the sky and once for the foreground. Your result will look much cleaner!!