Munson falls in Tillamook, Oregon. sky blown out.
Feb 9, 2015 15:54:28 #
I was trying to do just that. Make the mossy tree be the focal point and the falls be a background. But again my location was not very good. I couldn't get on the other side of the mossy tree. When I had a good lighting on the tree, the sky would be to bright. I will go back and try again.. :)
AdamK wrote:
I might make that tree with all the cool green moss the subject, crop out the sky and the little bit of wood platform in the lower left corner, and let the waterfall act as a background element - doing this with the existing photo may not work out too well - some lighting to pop the tree out from the background would have been the ticket.
The sky definitely wasn't interested in being a model for your shoot on this day.
The last photo is quite nice!
The sky definitely wasn't interested in being a model for your shoot on this day.
The last photo is quite nice!
Feb 9, 2015 15:55:22 #
I like the last one. No sky problems there. I remember reading one of the well known landscape gurus advising to eliminate the sky on gray dull days.
Feb 9, 2015 19:46:17 #
I will remember that!! ;) TY Dbez
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Dbez1 wrote:
I like the last one. No sky problems there. I remember reading one of the well known landscape gurus advising to eliminate the sky on gray dull days.
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Mar 3, 2015 18:04:07 #
If you shot in Raw you can probably retreive it. The was to get the shot you should bracket your photos and then stack them in post processing
Mar 4, 2015 15:29:37 #
You'd think it would be bright sunny days that would give you the most problems with blown skies - not so. Cloudy skies can themselves be bright but they keep the ambient light low. And if you're really unlucky the skies are a flat grey and not textured like a "properly" cloudy sky.
I'd say bracketing is the best advice offered so far. To do it properly means lugging a tripod along with you - not everybody's idea of fun.
Another possibility is in-camera HDR which can be done hand-held with most decent cameras. The quality won't be up to the standard of bracketed shots, but from an exposure point of view it will be better than single-shot exposures. Hand-held in-camera HDR shots can come out just a little on the soft side sometimes, but compare that to a single-shot exposure that has an un-reclaimable blown sky and detail-less shadows.
I'd say bracketing is the best advice offered so far. To do it properly means lugging a tripod along with you - not everybody's idea of fun.
Another possibility is in-camera HDR which can be done hand-held with most decent cameras. The quality won't be up to the standard of bracketed shots, but from an exposure point of view it will be better than single-shot exposures. Hand-held in-camera HDR shots can come out just a little on the soft side sometimes, but compare that to a single-shot exposure that has an un-reclaimable blown sky and detail-less shadows.
Apr 26, 2015 01:40:56 #
I enjoy fooling around with PhotoShop. Pasting some new clouds is difficult because the cloud area is surrounded by leaves which give a very irregular surface for masking. With lots more time, the area where the sky meets the trees could be cleaned up.
In this example, I made the sky bluer and then darkened some areas and lightened others to give the impression of clouds. I added some blue to the waterfall and burned some of the sides to allow the eye to focus on the waterfall. I also lightened the foreground and burned the tree, which I found an interesting point in the photograph.
How lucky you were to walk in such a beautiful place.
In this example, I made the sky bluer and then darkened some areas and lightened others to give the impression of clouds. I added some blue to the waterfall and burned some of the sides to allow the eye to focus on the waterfall. I also lightened the foreground and burned the tree, which I found an interesting point in the photograph.
How lucky you were to walk in such a beautiful place.
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