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Steve Spencer wrote:
brainiac wrote:
Steve Spencer wrote:
Rokkor 58mm f/1.2 shot at f/2.8
Beautiful shot. Have you been burning in by hand? The front left side of the haystack seems to lack contrast.
Hi Richard,
I would appreciate any advice about how to process this shot. It has given me fits. Here is what I did. As you might guess this shot has a lot dynamic range. I shot this so that it was exposed to the right. Then I processed the sky and the rest of the shot differently. Bringing back the sky so that it looked as near as I could remember to what I actually saw, and bringing back exposure to the foreground. I then cloned out a distracting corn stalk in the lower left corner; darkened the right side of the corn stack by hand as I though it gave it a little more depth, and then sharpened it just a little using Fred's smart sharpen plug-in. Any suggestions about what I might have done better, would be greatly appreciated. I have seen that you are a master of post-processing and I am very much a novice.
Best wishes,
Steve
I'm not an expert, and my opinions are just that. I like the way you've processed it, but I personally never like inconsistencies in lighting. They are often visible when skies have been burned in too much so that the foreground looks lighter than it could possibly have been. I believe good image processing should try to be invisible. In this case I think it's the darkening of the right hand side of the haystack, and perhaps around its footprint that makes the lighting seem odd. The more natural, the better, in my view. Sometimes you just have to leave it out and let the picture be, even when it's not as perfect as you want it to be.
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