digital_AM wrote:
Our Lady of the Lake University behind the cormorant and egret colony at Elmendorf Lake in San Antonio. This one was tricky to edit since I wanted to bring out the subtle color in the sky and texture but retain the long exposure in the water while keeping tonal values in check.
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Interested to know the basics of how you did edit this lovely image.
The white pelican scooped up a big, no, a huge fish! It struggled for 10 minutes in an effort to swallow the fish. Its entire body was shaking, and trembling, trying to push the fish down the gullet. I have never seen a pelican swallow that big of a fish. Of course, everything is relative. What a show for the morning!
FYI, I crossposted these in the N&W board, as well.
chiron wrote:
Interested to know the basics of how you did edit this lovely image.
Thank you for the interest and nice comment. I did my foundation edits in LR (tone, color, lens, and post capture sharpening) on my 3 selected images (base, long exposure, and under exposed). I took those into PS CC and used luminosity masking to recover blown highlights from my base layer using the under exposed image. I use Lumenzia for this. I then blended in manually the bottom portion for the water from the long exposure shot. I cloned out dust spots from a stamped layer. I then exported to Color Efex and applied one of my recipes consisting of pro contrast, detail extractor, and darken/lighten. Back into PS CC. Then finished it with some dodging/burning and final output sharpening. It was about an hour's worth of work.
digital_AM wrote:
Thank you for the interest and nice comment. I did my foundation edits in LR (tone, color, lens, and post capture sharpening) on my 3 selected images (base, long exposure, and under exposed). I took those into PS CC and used luminosity masking to recover blown highlights from my base layer using the under exposed image. I use Lumenzia for this. I then blended in manually the bottom portion for the water from the long exposure shot. I cloned out dust spots from a stamped layer. I then exported to Color Efex and applied one of my recipes consisting of pro contrast, detail extractor, and darken/lighten. Back into PS CC. Then finished it with some dodging/burning and final output sharpening. It was about an hour's worth of work....Show more →
Thank you for the explanation! It gives many of us something to aim at in terms of nuanced post-processing!
The image is very lovely, and the work you did with luminosity, blending of exposures, and the other fine adjustments all tell in the effect on the viewer.
Mathieu18 wrote:
Fantastic work as always on this page. Christmas at the Carolina Inn with the Samyang 35mm f/1.4. Like most folks I'm pretty impressed.
Looks great.
Is this the AF version?
I had a MF version and my copy wasn't nearly that nice.
