p.1 #2 · Silver Sisters ... (same scene as Touch of Gray)
In addition to being a nice shot capturing the mood of a late afternoon fall day its a good lesson in how to fit an outdoor scene to the range of a digital sensor: put the sun at your back so all the important detail falls within the sensor's range and the shadows which don't frame the full range content in front of it.
The image you've posted has a red / magenta cast apparent in the sky. Below I used the Levels highlight eyedropper (reset to 240) to snap the clouds to neutral "by the numbers" for comparison, and then tweeked the middle slider left a bit to open the mid-tones more. The file you posted is difficult to see all at once so I resized my edit also,,,
I find dark mats help define landscapes with sky, acting like a buffer to bounce the eye back down when it starts to wander up and out the top. It also does the same thing on the sides when the eye scans the horizon line. The rule color is a case of "when no other color choice is obvious use gold".
p.1 #3 · Silver Sisters ... (same scene as Touch of Gray)
That's a beauty, Kent. I'm not sure if you meant to have the magenta cast in the sky. I tried a version without that, just for comparison. Also slightly brightened the trees.
p.1 #4 · Silver Sisters ... (same scene as Touch of Gray)
RustyBug wrote:
Thanks guys ... yeah, I knew I had some color issues in the sky ... just hadn't worked through them fully yet as to how I wanted to approach them. I figured someone would come to my rescue.
I didn't quite get the whites of the clouds evened out, so I'll give that another go. I masked out everything below the sky because I think the slight magenta cast actually helps that part. http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/9926/582304dt3.jpg
p.1 #5 · Silver Sisters ... (same scene as Touch of Gray)
Thanks Karen ... and for all the reworks. Always so many ways you can go with something like this, and so many pieces to the puzzle ... make one little forward change and then you need to make four backward changes.
