Been busy and now that days are short

mereimagemereimage Registered Users Posts: 448 Major grins
edited November 5, 2005 in Landscapes
I've had limited time to shoot, but I did grab a few mins. to grab this shot before taking my son back to school after fall break. The light was just right and I had been viewing ths scene out my family room window for a few days wanting to capture it light coming thru the leaves. The raw version required a lot of post work(mostly in lab color space) to lighten it up and make the leaves come alive with the suns radiance and the sky wanted to go white since I was shooting into the sun. I eventually selected the sky and created a layer of the selection, made an adj fill layer set to a solid color picking a light cyan-blue. Then a command click on the layer to open the blend if dialog and adj the highlight sliders on the bottom layer till it looked right. Actually went pretty quick. Exif embedded. All comments critiques welcome.


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.........................................Mereimage

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  • USAIRUSAIR Registered Users Posts: 2,646 Major grins
    edited November 3, 2005
    Wow looks great to me
    I have taken a lot of shots under maples trying to get this but all too dark
    I'll have to give your technique a try see what happens

    Thanks
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  • pathfinderpathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,708 moderator
    edited November 3, 2005
    Pretty nice bro! thumb.gif
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  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,939 moderator
    edited November 3, 2005
    A nice picture indeed!

    ian
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  • mereimagemereimage Registered Users Posts: 448 Major grins
    edited November 4, 2005
    Here are a couple more from the same shoot
    Strong graphically with dense color perhaps too 'painterly' for some folks taste:


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    .........................Enjoy fall colors........................Mereimage
  • PossumCornerPossumCorner Registered Users Posts: 290 Major grins
    edited November 4, 2005
    Like them all, but if choosing it is No. 2 (that is, No 1 of the last 3). The last one has a plant and a piece of something in the lower right that don't belong but you can't crop the bottom off, and I don't know how you would remove them without it being noticed.
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  • mereimagemereimage Registered Users Posts: 448 Major grins
    edited November 4, 2005
    Actually that lower R corner could be cloned out............

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  • snapapplesnapapple Registered Users Posts: 2,093 Major grins
    edited November 4, 2005
    mereimage wrote:
    Actually that lower R corner could be cloned out............

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    I love this one now. But I think it would be perfect if it had some light rays coming out of that center light. I'd be tempted to try some lighting effects for that.

    I love the whole set. I never heard of your technique for getting the blue in the sky. I'm not sure how you do that with all those leaves, but I'm going to give it a try. Thanks for the tip.
    "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." - Francis Bacon
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  • snapapplesnapapple Registered Users Posts: 2,093 Major grins
    edited November 4, 2005
    I tried adding some light rays. I like it. Some people may not. But, I think it looks complete with the rays.


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    "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." - Francis Bacon
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  • mereimagemereimage Registered Users Posts: 448 Major grins
    edited November 5, 2005
    I want to thank everyone for their comments
    And for Snapapple Here is the link to rutts post using this technique to replace white skies..................................Mereimage
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