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Bunbeg sunset
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IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:My turn, Pete!!!!!!!!!
Nice to see a horizon that’s level!
Sky is great, although it could do with a bit more contrast.
Crop out most of the foreground and you are left with a lovely image.Now, that wasn’t too painful, was it???
IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:I think that the sky needs just a little contrast and it looks good.
The foreground (grass and stones) are looking flat. They need more ‘life’. Adding contrast and brigtness would help.Pete,
Simply stunning, you must have a top class mentor.
I told you last night that PTLens would do the trick….. oops
Andy
IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:Pete,
If you are using Photoshop CS2, then use the Shadow/Highlight tool to bring some detail into the foreground.
Lovely sky, although the image as a whole feels a little underexposed to me.
I think it looks good, may I ask what settings you used?…….I may try to emulate it, but I don’t have any experience of this type of shot.
Very nice image, but agree that the foreground needs to be brought up a bit to bring out some detail. 8)
Paperdoll,
It was taken at f22, 0.3 second exposure using (from memory) a 3 stop ND grad filter and an 18mm lens. The exposure compensation was at +1.0.
It still looks better in Pentax’s RAW viewer than I can get it to look in a JPG. I need a PS lesson.
Pete
PeteTheBloke wrote:
Paperdoll,
It was taken at f22, 0.3 second exposure using (from memory) a 3 stop ND grad filter and an 18mm lens. The exposure compensation was at +1.0.
It still looks better in Pentax’s RAW viewer than I can get it to look in a JPG. I need a PS lesson.
Pete
Photoshop? You and me both – I am the auto-brightness/contrast queen!
Anyway, I’m gonna make a note of those settings and give it a bash…I’ll post any results that aren’t toe-curlingly bad.
Paperdoll,
The camera will look after the exposure for you, but the ND grad filter is what makes this kind of shot possible. The sky is a lot brighter than the foreground at dusk, so you use a graduated filter to bring the sky down a few stops i.e. reduce its brightness. This means that the foreground gets a better share of the available light. You need a tripod because you normally get a long exposure once you’ve blocked out a proportion of the light.
It is possible to allow Photoshop to merge 2 or more separate shots for you. For example: take one shot metered for the sky and then one metered for the foreground, then merge them using PS’s high dynamic range functions (HDR). The first shot will have a very dark foreground and the second will have a very blown out (overexposed) sky. PS will attempt to merge the two so that the resulting image is balanced correctly. It can merge more than two – some people take 7 bracketed shots – but I have found that it copes better when there are fewer images. If you do try this, the tripod is still essential, because the photos must be of the same scene.
Hope that helps a bit,
Pete
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