Thank you Dave, I actually got both of them to work.

Nanaval, which of Serge's tutorials are you referring to?

Thank you for these examples Bob. Image 1 looks like a normal case of ETTR, and image 4 looks like flat, overcast lighting. I'm intrigued by images 2, 3, and 5. It appears that more is going on behind the scenes on these. Please explain.

I have found Dan Margulis' "Photoshop LAB Color" an excellent source for this.

I have found Dan Margulis' book "Photoshop LAB Color" to be an excellent source.

Great job of painting the subject back in!

Hi Erich. With that format you are eligible to join Club f/64. Tilt works great when there are no close tall objects. Adams' book will be very helpful on this. Also a good dof calculator will help. I use Photographer's Friend on my phone, which covers a wide range of formats.

f/22 or 32 would probably have worked well on both of these photos.

Here's the picture. It needs straightening, but illustrates the concept. I've also included a screen shot of the processing. I got the mask from TK7 at the top of the screen shot.

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Mark, I think you're on to something. I tried something similar with a dark exposure of a lamp and applied a luminosity mask in Photoshop to select the darkest values. Then I added a solid color layer of blue, similar to your blue, with the mask. To me, the result is striking.

I'll post it if you like.

I like Uuglypher's definition of art and would add: Any creative simple expression that reveals an object or a concept in a unique way qualifies as art. The simpler the expression, the better. And the expression can be anything: a picture; prose writing; poetry; computer code; anything.

I like the picture. It is framed in shaded leaves except for the bright cars, so I burned the lower portion to put the cars into shade also.

I have upgraded and did receive the new PhotoLab raw image processor. DXO is in the process of upgrading the NIK software and have included the control point technology in PhotoLab. I am still learning how to use PL and have been watching YouTube tutorials produced by two experienced NIK users. These tutorials have been coming out about twice a week and are very informative. Check the DXO website and DXO on YouTube to access these tutorials.

The NIK software is quite useful so I feel supporting DXO is important to keep NIK available. Also, PL provides a very interesting approach to raw processing.

Oops, sent the wrong one. Sorry for the clutter.

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Thanks for the suggestion R.G., fixed.

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Much sunnier this time, but how do I get rid of the thin blue edge at the skyline?

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I see you have to click store original before you click add attachment.

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