Grand Canyon
Since the weather forecast called for a chance of precipitation, I ventured up to the Grand Canyon a couple weekends ago. We got a bit of snow Sunday night/Monday morning, along with 30+ MPH winds Monday. With the wind chill factor, it was a bit cold for this desert rat. :uhoh C&C welcome.
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Of these I think #1 is the standout image followed by #4.
The foreground is great in the first and you have good depth and detail throughout the image. I really like the tree on the left side and while the tree on the right isn't visually dynamic it does help in framing the shot.
The focus in #2 and #3 seems a bit soft and they just lack the same dynamics as the other two.
The canyon is always a crap shoot though. How cold was it?
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According to the vehicle's thermometer which seems to be reasonably accurate, it was 28 -31 Monday morning as I was driving around. But the wind...oh man! As I was driving along Desert View drive, at about 30 MPH, a cloud shadow on the ground passed me as if I was standing still. I don't think I've ever seen clouds moving that fast.
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Crokey- I agree they do look a bit dull, more so when I look at them on other monitors away from my desktop's Dell ultrasharp.
It is frequently hazy in the Canyon- sure was this time- and the distances across are much greater than it would appear in a photo, so there's more room for haze to dull the images. That said, I know there's much more I have to learn about PP and in the future I hope to do a better job on making them look their best.
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1.Merge all the layers into a new layer(Ctrl+Alt+Shift+E is a shortcut), or if you only have the background layer and no others, just duplicate that.
2.Then go into Filter>Sharpen>Unsharp Mask
3.Usually for landscapes you set a really small Radius like .8 and quite a large amount like 50percent or so, this time however set the amount to something like 10percent and the radius high, I mean really high, like 60-80pixels. Leave the Threshold alone. This will probably be to strong for your liking, but then you can use the opacity on the layers to act like a Volume Control, or put an empty mask and brush it in as you like. I find this especially good at kicking haze's ass.
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#2 un-hazed
#4 un-hazed
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