This is one that I bracketed heavilly on. However, I am still learning how to blend images in a way that is satisfactory to me. If anyone has advice, I will be glad to listen.

Cheers
James

James, look like you had some very tough light!

Did you blend that shot? if so, how come the dark parts are so underexposed? I was under the impression that blending in PS means you blend two shots, with different exposures together to get one what that contains a better balance. Each photo in the blend is shot at it's optimun exposure and them "blended" together.

It looks to me like your reflection is right, but I think the dark parts of the photo need to be a lot lighter.

I dont know how to blend, I've only read about it.

I like the composition, but can you lighten it up by blending a different middle ground?

Hey,

I should have been more clear. I took 3 shots of this scene - at -2, 0 and +2 stops. This is the '0' stops shot. It was very early morning, and the light was just hitting the tips of the mountain. It was beautiful.

I agree that I would like to lighten the forest area, but not too much as I think that it would take away from the marvelous light as I was seeing it.

The question is - how? This current shot is a simple one - just playing with the curve a bit. I would rather not introduce too much noise into the shot by kicking up the shadow tones too much.

Thanks
James

Gorgeous photo! I love the light on the mountains, like you said perfect light. Like Tony I have never done a blend of multiple exposures so I can not comment there. What I can say is there seems to be a nice seamless blending though as I don’t notice any aberrations or otherwise funny areas.

My two comments photographically are to much sky and to little contrast. First, I would crop a little off the left and a little more from the right and then bring down the sky. If there were some clouds or something I wouldn’t mind so much.

Second is contrast. I see a general theme in all your shots, most recently the elk where you are in my opinion lacking a little in contrast. I wonder if it’s different computer setups? But in this shot, I think the reflection looks beautiful and the real Mt. Are a little light in contrast. I would add some contrast with a general curve to the entire shot. I think that would darken the foreground trees more, but would be beneficial.

Nice shot....shoot me an e-mail and I will send you my blending tutorial. Its WIKID simple.

Hey Roman,

Thanks for the e-mail. I hope to try blending a few images with your forumula after I finish work.

-JM