Smokey sunset

[Gray_T]

Hi All,

Would love some feed back on these couple of pics that I took whilst on a drive. They where taken to the east as the sun was setting last Thursday, I loved the colours (due to the smoke and ash).

First one was taken with nikon D50 at 55mm with a 18-55 lense (all that I had with me at the time).
1/125sec , F8 , ISO 400
Put it in photoshop adjusted curves and brightness and contrast. And cropped it.

Second one 55mm 1/300, F9.5 , ISO 400.
Same adjustments as pic one.

Cheers

[muzz]

Hi Gray_T,

the images you posted are too small to say much about except the colours. If you could post larger versions (see the guidelines in the pink box above) that would be great. You can link the smaller versions as thumbnails for larger versions as outlined in this post.

Cheers, Muzz

[Gray_T]

Ok I for some reason I am not able to enlarge it (due to cropping I am guessing?) Joys of being a newbie
So I have added the them uncropped.

Hope this makes it easier to see.

Cheers

[Mr Darcy]

Ok I for some reason I am not able to enlarge it (due to cropping I am guessing?) Joys of being a newbie
So I have added the them uncropped.

You need to go back to your original photo ex camera Hopefully RAW, but your original backup of your JPG if not. You do make backups of ALL originals don't you

DO any PP to that image, save it as a different file (e.g. DSC001_Modified.nef), then resize just when you are going to post. Again, give it a new name (e.g. DSC001_ModifiedAndResized800.jpg). This way you keep a clean workflow, and can go back to any stage as required. Ideally do all the modifications in a lossless format (RAW, TIFF, PSD or similar) and just save to JPG for your final result.

[biggerry]

save it as a different file (e.g. DSC001_Modified.nef),

Correct me if I am wrong or mistaken here...if you have the .nef file, can you not just edit it to your hearts delight and save it as a .nef again and then when you want to post to the web save a copy (jpeg) of the required size. I guess what I am getting at is, you only need to have one raw .nef file right? I edit pictures in capturenx and use only one .nef file, if I edit too much or change my mind it allows me to go back to the original picture - all from the one .nef file. This may not be the case with other programs? PS?

feed back on these couple of pics that I took whilst on a drive

to the pictures....

I prefer the first one, I think you have definitely gone down the correct path by cropping it into a pano style. My only suggestion might to play with the OOF areas (requires re-shoot) or ensure both foreground and background items are clear. Maybe wrangle some more detail out of the grass heads?

Just a few thoughts - take with a large grain of seasalt...