Edit this, please (Page 2): Thank you, Mike! A natural, appealing result.

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

UTMike wrote:

Just some Lightroom tweaking.

Thank you, Mike! A natural, appealing result.

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

SalvageDiver wrote:

Hi Linda, Here's an edit. The challenge was it had a lot of noise and was underexposed. The sun was setting behind the camera resulting in a bright moon on the horizon with a darkening sky. However it wasn't dark enough to push the middle ground hill into shadow. After basic and local tone adjustments, I removed the noise and a bit of colorcast.

Mike

Thanks so much, Mike. I like the crop, bright white moon, lighter landscape. A neat interpretation!

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

kubota king wrote:

I just used some auto adjustments in PS .Auto Tone - Auto Color - Auto remove noise for this photo .Tommy

Thank you for your time and interest, Tommy. The light blue sky is very appealing to me.

AZNikon Loc: Mesa, AZ

Best appreciated in download - very nicely done!

E.L.. Shapiro Loc: Ottawa, Ontario Canada

All right! I'll apologize in advance-Sorry- I could not help myself! Everyone did such lovely interpretations of your landscape. I could not do better so my "morbid streak" kicked in and I turned your beautiful sunset into "NUCLEAR WINTER" or Armageddon or what's gonna happen if we keep messin' around with nuclear weapons, dumping all those plastic bags in the oceans, ignoring global warming, generating all that pollution and feeding our cows too many beans!

Actually, lately, I have been experimenting with digitally replicating some of my old darkroom effects- solarizations, high contrast and cross-processing and shooting inferred too! An ad agency client of mine is working on a government contract for a report on environmental issues and I was asked to provide some visual material. I am gonna shoot some pretty landmarks and tourist attractions and mess them up.

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

E.L.. Shapiro wrote:

I am gonna shoot some pretty landmarks and tourist attractions and mess them up.

You are a delight, Ed

brucewells Loc: Central Kentucky

Linda From Maine wrote:

I've never been happy with my attempts. The pink c... (show quote)

My attempt. I wanted to embellish that foreground more, but I found any more would create an unrealistic scene.

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nanaval Loc: Cornwall

I duplicated the layer and in Photoshop raw filter I altered the sky in the bottom layer to what I wanted and the same with the foreground in the top layer. Using a mask I took out the sky in the top layer that I had edited the foreground to make a whole picture then merged the layers...

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Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

brucewells wrote:

My attempt. I wanted to embellish that foreground more, but I found any more would create an unrealistic scene.

Thanks, Bruce, good to see you

A very pleasing rendition, much appreciated.

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

nanaval wrote:

I duplicated the layer and in Photoshop raw filter I altered the sky in the bottom layer to what I wanted and the same with the foreground in the top layer. Using a mask I took out the sky in the top layer that I had edited the foreground to make a whole picture then merged the layers...

Dramatic! Thanks so much, Val, especially for the reminder of the excellent option of combining layers you've worked on separately in ACR.

Jim-Pops Loc: Granbury, Texas

While I looked at all the edits and then your comments it became difficult for me to decide exactly what to do with colors and brightness. I decided to make look like an early morning around here when I still see the moon in the sky. Not sure if the moon is too saturated, that was my only dilemma.

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Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Jim-Pops wrote:

While I looked at all the edits and then your comments it became difficult for me to decide exactly what to do with colors and brightness. I decided to make look like an early morning around here when I still see the moon in the sky. Not sure if the moon is too saturated, that was my only dilemma.

Very realistic, thank you Jim-Pops. I've seen a white moon, and a yellow moon - both rising and setting. Just depends on atmosphere and time of year, I would think. Appreciate your interest!

htbrown Loc: San Francisco Bay Area

Not sure what you're looking for. Personally, I think it needs very little. I like the blue shadows. Shadows are naturally blue, and make a nice contrast to the pinks.

Here's my take on it, a quick edit in LR. Minor tweaks to the W/B points, a grad filter to the sky to which I added a bit of blue, and I added a tiny bit of contrast to the moon itself. I think I fiddled with the shadow slider a tiny bit too.

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Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

htbrown wrote:

Not sure what you're looking for. Personally, I think it needs very little. I like the blue shadows. Shadows are naturally blue, and make a nice contrast to the pinks.

Here's my take on it, a quick edit in LR. Minor tweaks to the W/B points, a grad filter to the sky to which I added a bit of blue, and I added a tiny bit of contrast to the moon itself. I think I fiddled with the shadow slider a tiny bit too.

Beautifully done, thanks so much!

Waterfall9

Linda From Maine wrote:

I've never been happy with my attempts. The pink c... (show quote)

Linda, thank you for all that you do for folks on this web site. You have a dedicated skill with images and It was late tonight, but I had a curiosity as to what photoshop browser and a preset from Topaz might do with the image. It is not particularly an improvement, but reflects what I think I see in the afterglow often following a sunset here in Ellensburg. Somehow the brightness dropped about a quarter to half a stop in the transfer so the landscape returned darker.