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Very Very difficult exposure... To get the subtle colours in the sky and not lose the foregrround....

Fullsize:
http://images.potofgrass.com/host/f_woden?full=1

Scott

This is good, especially given the challenge of keeping the foreground. Couldn't you now bring up the foregorund a little more using layers in PS? Or did you want to keep it this dark so the sky wasn't lost?

Yep...
I tried bring it up using curves (ie amplifiying the darker tones) but it just looked "unatural"

Scott I think that image and your comments reinforces why I admire the top landscape photographers so much. It is just so difficult to expose correctly over such a vast distance. I think that is a very good effort.

Its instances like these when most colour trannie workers (slides as opposed to the ones outside your hotel in Bali) use a Graduated or Grad filter to pull back the bright horizon so that you can expose more for the foreground. Black and white workers never bothered with Grads because they could simply burn it back in the darkroom.

The modern equivalent to the Grad is to shoot RAW, convert the image at two (or three) different exposure settings and then combine them as layers in Photoshop. By applying a mask to the upper layers you can then use the Gradient tool on the mask to run a grad over the boundary of the horizon so that you can blend it and get the smooth transition from sky to wooded foreground.

Oneputt wrote:Scott I think that image and your comments reinforces why I admire the top landscape photographers so much. It is just so difficult to expose correctly over such a vast distance. I think that is a very good effort.

Indeed!!!

Antsl wrote:Its instances like these when most colour trannie workers (slides as opposed to the ones outside your hotel in Bali) use a Graduated or Grad filter to pull back the bright horizon so that you can expose more for the foreground. Black and white workers never bothered with Grads because they could simply burn it back in the darkroom.

The modern equivalent to the Grad is to shoot RAW, convert the image at two (or three) different exposure settings and then combine them as layers in Photoshop. By applying a mask to the upper layers you can then use the Gradient tool on the mask to run a grad over the boundary of the horizon so that you can blend it and get the smooth transition from sky to wooded foreground.

Hmmm... interesting... I will try this one out some time, thanks!