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Don
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Colin Croke
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I like the effect of the clouds, creating a cut out fell and emphasizing (at least on the right) that it's just a solitary wall left standing after hundreds of years.
You've got a wonderfully compelling composition and I love the rock in the foreground, pulling the eye up and into the ruin.
As far as your b&w treatment goes, I think you nailed it (though I am judging on my iPad, not a properly calibrated screen). You have wonderful textures through out and the b&w is highlighting the shapes and forms in the image. And isn't that what should be highlighted when color is removed from a scene?
In other words, very nicely done!
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I could go back on a clear day and avoid the clouds but I don't think it would be an improvement. I did process the clouds differently, to keep the contrast down and keep them darker, and there's more tonal variation in them than may be obvious on a screen.
I'll see if darkening the foreground or the entire image helps. Thanks again.
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Love this stuff! Looking forward to lots of similar shots for myself!
Don
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Thanks,
Don
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Those clouds limit how far you can go, did you try a little more shadow across the frame
Good work
Since you went to BW (and, btw, you could also make a one step further and go duotone, thus preserving the magnificent red color of the local rocks) it's very easy to do whatever you want with the sky, especially considering the rocks are red and the skies are blue, i.e. the humble RGB space places them in completely different channels and you can edit them independently. You can make sky completely white, you can make sky totally black, all that without affecting your rocks and ruins (no masking or selection required).
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I do shoot in RAW and it was fairly easy to reprocess it. This version is better, I think, thanks to all the suggestions.
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Out of curiosity, did you try to "black out" blue/cyan channels in ACR/PS to see how it would look with "infrared"-ish type of skies? Just an idea...
More detail in the clouds and more darkness in the foreground boulder.
Don
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Coming your way in a PM, and feel free to post anything you come up with. I'd be interested to see it. I'm trying to learn and I don't have a fragile ego.
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Thanks!
I think I meant something like that. I tried to preserve the primary rock color and neutralize the sky a bit to avoid "red skies" effect.
I used Black and White adjustment layer with Tint option and RGB Curves Adjustment layer with most edits in Blue channel (for clouds) and Red (for general contrast)
There is a visible halo along the top ruin border. This is mostly due to the small image size, aggressive jpeg compression and, last but not least, my personal laziness, as I didn't want to spend a lot of time on this, just wanted to get the general idea working.
Let us know what you think, and thanks again for the opportunity!
Thanks for sharing, Nikolai
Don
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I agree. And, technically, it would be awesome to retake this shot with a ND3+ (10 stops) filter to get 30..60 second exposure and thus get the real movement.
However, just like I said before, this image provides an awesome opportunity to reach many effects in post, since the rocks and the skies are so easy to separate.
Basically, select sky, apply Motion blur, blend to a taste... et voila!
Plus you get to control the wind direction ;-)
Below is a version of just that, with 20 pixel motion blur blended at 77%. Really took me less than two minutes, most of the time spent trying to find a right blur distance and a proper opacity...