Help with Blah image
Apr 10, 2014 22:49:53 #
The background kills the tree. Against sky it would be striking, especially with strong cross lighting, dawn or late afternoon. Ansel Adams.
Apr 15, 2014 13:32:30 #
The other tone-mapped examples of fixes are overcooked to say the least. What I would attempt is to darken the background by creating two layers dark on the top layer, and your normal exposure below the dark layer. create a layer mask on the dark layer and with a soft-edged-black brush and the layer mask selected paint over the bushes and branches to bring them through.
If you want to avoid all of this processing. I suggest spot metering your shot and use a fill flash, like the little one on top of your camera.
If you want to avoid all of this processing. I suggest spot metering your shot and use a fill flash, like the little one on top of your camera.
Apr 15, 2014 16:30:22 #
Psergel wrote:
Hi, br I'm not really trying to make this particul... (show quote)
I feel if you moved back and shot wide open with the 200mm you could have achieved a higher bokeh capture, blowing the background out of focus and making the tree "pop" from the distant hills behind it. I recreated this for you in photoshop to show what the possible effect would look like.
Click the download link to see it full frame
Apr 17, 2014 11:02:34 #
Apr 17, 2014 11:47:44 #
Apr 17, 2014 12:15:25 #
Change your camera to shoot against sky. Here is what it might look like.
Apr 21, 2014 00:09:07 #
While it appears to be a "gray on gray" issue, you can see that the tree is in sunlight while the background is mostly in shade. So after applying exposure/highlight/shadow/contrast adjustment in Lightroom, with some increase in saturation and vibrance, I pulled down the blue and some purple to darken the background. Then I applied a brush mask to drop the exposure by -0.6 on the sunlight sand directly behind the tree.
It's a low resolution JPG; I think this can be even better with high res or RAW.
From a shooting standpoint, it appears that moving to the left or right to get away from the sunlight ridge behind the tree might help. On the other hand, I like the way the tree seems to line up against the highlighted parts of the ridge. I would try all three shots and see which gave best results. Shoot in RAW, and you can take a little more time than I spent in post to get what you want.
Remember, if it's worth shooting, it's worth working the shot.
It's a low resolution JPG; I think this can be even better with high res or RAW.
From a shooting standpoint, it appears that moving to the left or right to get away from the sunlight ridge behind the tree might help. On the other hand, I like the way the tree seems to line up against the highlighted parts of the ridge. I would try all three shots and see which gave best results. Shoot in RAW, and you can take a little more time than I spent in post to get what you want.
Remember, if it's worth shooting, it's worth working the shot.
Apr 25, 2014 16:23:03 #
Here is my down and dirty attempt. I blurred the background (Not too carefully as I went over some places that didn't need blurred.)to give it some depth. I did a simple curves adjustment and sharpened.
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