Rainbow Air

Thusie

I was trying for this sort of. Actually I was going for some nice rays and muffed that ended up with this and thought with a bit of PP help it might just be interesting. What do you think?

Tessa HD

those are interesting rays,
a couple little things that stuck out to me were that the sky is overexposed enough that it seems there is some purple fringing around many branches, which may be tough to fix. On the left side of the rays there seems like a reflection of 'someone', maybe it's just some round reflections, but it even badly distorted one of your trees. There is also a round one to the right of the rays too. i believe those detract from those strong angled lines of your rays. Again, that may be tough to fix also. If it's the idea you're looking for an opinion on, I can definitely see where you're coming from. Without air we wouldn't see rays!

vandana

I agree with Tessa..the rays itself is a good idea for the challenge, but the background is quite boring, not sharp, overexposed - could you do this again? I hope ! I unfortunately am not smart enuf at this to tell what to do differently tho - i don't know if some filter will help with the sortof brash lighting on the trees

Thusie

Thanks Tessa and Vandana.

You are right there is quite a bit wrong with that shot that probably isn't fixable. Could I do it again? Probably not since I'm not quite sure how it happened in the first place (except it is pretty over exposed):D I liked the colors so gave it a try. Yea the PF around the trees is nasty.

vangogh

Thusie wrote:

Thanks Tessa and Vandana.

You are right there is quite a bit wrong with that shot that probably isn't fixable. Could I do it again? Probably not since I'm not quite sure how it happened in the first place (except it is pretty over exposed):D I liked the colors so gave it a try. Yea the PF around the trees is nasty.

Don't know if you are using a polarising filter. Would that make any difference to how the sky holds? - looks questionly at the pros .

Maybe a lower angle to give some dynamics to the actual picture or something that the rays are highlighting or picking out to give a focus.

Nicola
Iconic Creative

rutt

This image gave me a chance to try out Dan Margulis' rainbow enhancement technique from Chapter 12 of his book Photoshop LAB Color...



Pathfinder is supposed to post a chapter summary soon for Chapter 12, but in the meantime, here is what I did:

1. Concert to LAB
2. New curves adjustment layer
3. Steepen A&B curves by 40%, i.e., move each of the 4 endpoints toward the middle by 40% (see this thread.)
4. Select the layer mask from the curves adjustment layer; Edit->Fill and fill with black. Now you won't see the bright colors.
5. With a big soft brush set to low opacity, paint white on the layer mask over the rainbow to reveal the enhanced color differentiation.
6. Fine tune with smaller black and white brushes.

Thusie

Now that is POP Rutt

Off to try and duplicate what you did, thanks.