Been away for a while....this was from an earlier trip to Central Oregon.

Hope you all like it.



Roman

Hey Roman,

Glad to see you around!!! What a magnificent photo. I am really impressed with the greens and how they are seeming to pop out in the way that they are. May I ask a bit about the photograph? i.e. filters, etc?

James

This is a blend from one RAW file. Sky at the same exposure of the land is just more than the DR of the camera will allow.....actually not beyond the DR...but as you know...under and over exposure ...you loose the POP of the colors.....so the sky needed a diffrent exposure than the ground to get both properly showing their colors.

The pop and color contrast is also due to a combonation of two things....a polarizing filter, and mild L.A.B. editing.
L.A.B. editing is quite a sledge hammer so I usually edit the curves with only 5-7% opacity on the layer....dont like cartoonish color...just quality color seperation...which this does quite well at that level.

I metered the sky....then the foreground with a spot meter....found it was within the DR I could expect with dual processing of a RAW file. Devided the diffrence and shot in the middle ground.....and shot just a tad (2/3 stops) brighter....as brighter (but not blown highlights) are easier to work with than shadow info...(shadow info is full of noise)

The rest is what you see before you.

Roman

"This is a blend from one RAW file. Sky at the same exposure of the land is just more than the DR of the camera will allow.....actually not beyond the DR...but as you know...under and over exposure ...you loose the POP of the colors.....so the sky needed a diffrent exposure than the ground to get both properly showing their colors."

Wonderful. I am very impressed. How many blends did you do in PS before finishing the file?

-JM

Hey Roman,
Thanks for coming back for a while. Nice shot. I like the composition too along with the colors!
Is the hard(sharp) line delineating the Mt. from the sky part of the HDR processing or from sharpening alone?

It has to be the sharpening.....as I have a 200pixel featherd blend that goes into the edge of the mountain....so no hard edges there.

Thanks!

Roman

It is just a blend of two shots stacked with a layer mask....at 200px feather. Not sure if that is what your asking. I just pop the lighter shot over the darker shot and select the highlights....feather it about 200pixels and add a layer mask. I then use curves on both layers AND the layer mask to tune it. It is that simple.

Roman

For the little old lady down the street, LOL, do you think that you could give me s step by step on how you did this?

Thanks
James

Sure...just shoot me an e-mail and I will send you a document I prepared for my DR workflow. : )

No cane required. :P

Roman