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ben egbert Offline • • • • Upload & Sell: On p.1 #1 · Fix the sky Nothing artistic here, just a problem to solve. When shooting brightly lit aspen leaves against a blue sky, it is hard to avoid blowing out the leaves. I like to use a polarizer to reduce glare, and underexpose to the histogram. This often results in a sky that is too dark as shown here. I used a gradient mask on the entire sky even behind the tree at about +1. Then I also used hue saturation in the blue channel where I reduced saturation and lightness. Here are my results. I am including a SOOC for you to work with. My version   Canon EOS 50D    17 mm    f/8.0    1/200 sec    100 ISO    -0.7 EV   SOOC Sep 30, 2012 at 05:03 PM

sbeme Offline • • • • • • Upload & Sell: On p.1 #2 · Fix the sky I think it looks great! Scott Sep 30, 2012 at 06:06 PM

ben egbert Offline • • • • Upload & Sell: On p.1 #3 · Fix the sky Thanks Scott. This was taken near Flaming Gorge last week, hand held while I was double parked by the highway. The local aspen are just starting so I wanted some advice for both shooting and post processing. Sep 30, 2012 at 07:21 PM

Mister Bean Offline • • • Upload & Sell: Off p.1 #4 · Fix the sky Here's one that's just slightly different. I did the following in Lightroom: - Increased blue and orange luminance - Added a graduated filter to the sky so that it goes from dark at the top to light (yours is slightly lighter at the very top than further down) -Increased clarity -Increased vibrance and decreased saturation -Increased saturation on green, orange and yellow -Increased exposure -Cropped -Cloned out stuff on the right -Sharpened it a bit Oct 01, 2012 at 05:03 AM

ben egbert Offline • • • • Upload & Sell: On p.1 #5 · Fix the sky Good job, I will try to find the equivalent stuff in ACR or Photoshop and try it out. I got all of it covered but not sure the best way to increase specific channel luminance in Photoshop. You have a nice even sky with a good color. Edit: I figured out luminance by channel in ACR, I seldom go to that page. Oct 01, 2012 at 02:45 PM

oldrattler Offline • • • • Upload & Sell: On p.1 #6 · Fix the sky I couldn't help myself, I had to mess with your image... First, it is a very nice image with a Bright, Blue, monochromatic sky... I ran it through LR4, Nik software and CS5... Mostly I just played with Tonal contrast, Vibrance, and content aware fill... You will note the limbs, upper right, are gone and the foreground log has lengthened... I eliminated the small patch of road on lower, left corner... Hope I did not mess it up too bad... Jim Oct 01, 2012 at 10:33 PM

ben egbert Offline • • • • Upload & Sell: On p.1 #7 · Fix the sky Looks good, I also used content aware to remove the branches. Oct 02, 2012 at 12:41 AM

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