Sunset and post Process
Feb 5, 2012 00:06:36 #
Going Digital wrote:
Here's a before and after. Canon T3i. Auto setting. 1/60 f5.6 ISO 125. Looking for did rights and did wrongs. Criticism welcome, that's how I'll learn. I'd like to maintain a little more lighting in the foreground, but intensifying the sky destroyed it. Using Canon DPP for post process. Any suggestions?
i tried to bring up the foreground a bit and reveal some of the barn's red color, while compensating a bit in the most highly exposed areas. There's more available in the foreground and barn color, but I didn't want to get too far from the near-silhouette quality. So, a number of compromises. Quality suffers from using the low-res posted copy instead of the original.
Feb 16, 2012 18:55:27 #
either compose for foreground or background.you can't have both here.
Going Digital wrote:
Here's a before and after. Canon T3i. Auto setting. 1/60 f5.6 ISO 125. Looking for did rights and did wrongs. Criticism welcome, that's how I'll learn. I'd like to maintain a little more lighting in the foreground, but intensifying the sky destroyed it. Using Canon DPP for post process. Any suggestions?
Feb 18, 2012 11:32:08 #
Hope you don't mind but I added a little fill light to bring out the foreground a little better.
Great picture I just love the shot composition/ :thumbup: :thumbup:
Great picture I just love the shot composition/ :thumbup: :thumbup:
Feb 18, 2012 23:28:07 #
Going Digital wrote:
Raised the brightness and contrast a little, saturation a lot, tone a little. Quite a bit more realistic. That's what I was going for. Found that raising saturation darkened foreground severely, increasing brightness a little brought it back without killing the sky. Have to learn a technique? Or maybe it's more just "play with it" until you get what you want.
NICE! It reminds me of my brother's ranch in the south of Brazil...:thumbup:
Feb 19, 2012 10:33:47 #
naturalite
Loc: Up state NY
Well, I just played with the exposure a bit. You have plenty of contrast to work with. So I backed it down and lightened the shadow. Left everything else alone.
lightened foreground
Feb 21, 2012 09:42:27 #
You guys might already understand this, but a good rule for capturing sunsets is to UNDER-expose by 1 f/stop. I suppose you could also spot meter on the sun. Getting the sun right is as good as it gets.
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