Post by Frank Comisar on May 15, 2010 12:33:34 GMT -5
. . . if you made a photograph this weekend. Here's my attempt:
I worked this image pretty hard in post-processing. It was captured with a Pentax K7 dslr and Pentax smc FA43mm at 1/250s at f/8 iso200. To deal with the dynamic range of this shot, I started by processing two versions of the RAW image; one with the exposure adjusted extremely dark to maintain some detail in the sky and star burst at the sun. The second one was adjusted with a better exposure for the trees, fog, and water. I layered the darker image on top of the lighter one and used a layer mask to selectively reveal some of the lighter areas from the first image.
After the two images were combined I used curves to increase contrast, applied shadow/highlight adjustment to the trees, and finally, pushed saturation with NIK Viveza 2 (plug-in for Photoshop). I saved it for the web by resizing to 72 dpi, sharpened the trees and river bank with NIK sharpener, and changed the color space from aRGB to sRGB. Comments welcome.
If you made a photograph this weekend, let's see it!!!!
I worked this image pretty hard in post-processing. It was captured with a Pentax K7 dslr and Pentax smc FA43mm at 1/250s at f/8 iso200. To deal with the dynamic range of this shot, I started by processing two versions of the RAW image; one with the exposure adjusted extremely dark to maintain some detail in the sky and star burst at the sun. The second one was adjusted with a better exposure for the trees, fog, and water. I layered the darker image on top of the lighter one and used a layer mask to selectively reveal some of the lighter areas from the first image.
After the two images were combined I used curves to increase contrast, applied shadow/highlight adjustment to the trees, and finally, pushed saturation with NIK Viveza 2 (plug-in for Photoshop). I saved it for the web by resizing to 72 dpi, sharpened the trees and river bank with NIK sharpener, and changed the color space from aRGB to sRGB. Comments welcome.
If you made a photograph this weekend, let's see it!!!!
