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Last one of this field I promise!

 

Best wishes,

 

Kev

Very nice picture. Jitka

Nice colour and line

Excellent shot. I like very much the colors and the light. Regards

Sunsets probably do not come in much nicer variety than this one. One question though: the whole field has pretty much uniform brightness - how is this possible ?

Very nice 7/6

Fantastic!

 

Regards, Miha

Wonderful composition!! Congrats!

Excelente!! tono, color, y saturacion, una composicion Brillante de calidad y belleza Saludos

Wonderful !

I like the color and the perspective.

 

Best regards

 

Ruggero

there is no coherence between the yellow of the field and the sky

I agree with Erick, the color in the top and bottom of the photo are incoherent.

 

I don't mean to pick on Dr Mills at all, but the extreme color palette and photoshop techniques that have overtaken much of the landscape photography on photo.net over the last few years is the result of trying to compress the wonder of nature into an 800 pixel wide jpeg. These extreme techniques IMHO result in photos that more resemble black velvet paintings of Elvis than the subtle wonder I find in nature.

Neutral Grad filter, polariser, 2 exposures of 20 secs and 30 sec, f22, combined in photoshop, saturation boosted some but not a lot and 4 pixel smart sharpen.

 

Elvis has left the building.

Beautiful Mother Nature!!!

 

 

Biliana

http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00Kvu2

 

A slightly different view from Mr Hecker?

wonderful shot, with a beatiful colors and light, congratulations

Very nice colour

Wow! A fairy tale landscape! Coherence is irrelevant. Beautiful! :)

great composition, and unlike other posters i think the colours are great, the only thing that bothers me is the grey behind the trees on the right and at the horizon the left of the sun. To me that looks like the sky was pasted on over the top and it doesn't appear to blend very well. Here is what i do to blend two images.

Here is the technique I used for two different exposures for the same image and they were slightly more than 2 stops apart.

Step 1 - Open both images in photoshop

Step 2 - copy darker image onto lighter image

Step 3 - create a layer mask on the darker image

Step 4 - paste the lighter image into the layer mask

Step 5 - add a Gaussian blur to the layer mask

Step 6 - reduce contrast on layer mask by reducing output levels to 70 and 180

Step 7 - adjust levels and curves as you see fit.

this works better than photomatix hdr on some images as it makes them look more realistic. Here is an image that I did using this technique. Image

Thanks for that tip Wayne, I have been omitting steps 5 & 6 - I will try again on some images to see the difference.

 

Dear Wayne,

 

Stunning portfolio by the way, amazing images and I salute you.

 

I have been trying to use your technique but have got a little confused in Step 4 - paste the lighter image into the layer mask? How do I do this?

 

I do the same as you but slightly differently, by painting out the lower half of the darker exposure to reveal the lower lighter layer? Obviously, this technique has caused my good Friend Mr Heckler to have a seizure so any tips for bettering my ham-fisted efforts are most appreciated.

 

Many thanks

 

Kev

What I do is select all of the lighter image using Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C on that image and then select the layer mask on the second pic before pressing Ctrl-V.

Another way to do the same thing is to Alt-Click on the layer mask so that it becomes open and then use the Ctrl-A and the move tool on the first image to drag it into the (now open) layer mask of the second image, if you hold the shift key down before you release then the image centres itself so you don't have to worry about alignment.

Dear Glen,

 

You are magnificent, that is so clever and I had not idea you could do this so simply. Just think, no more wacky combinations of exposures for my good friend in Wyoming to moan about. Life will be boring from now on in, what have you done!

 

Many, many thanks,

 

Kev

This is just gorgeous. Kind Regards Andrea