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Night Shooting, almost.........
I have done a tiny bit to this in post. I have not increased the exposure, just took it to photoshop, increased the saturation a tad, probably the brightness and the contrast a tad. Then I sharpened it to the hilt. I used three different methods found in a Kelby book. I kind of enjoy that. This was already pretty sharp in the first fence rail thing.
I used USM, Lab USM and Luminosity USM, smile.
It was taken with a huge cloud inland, black kind of thing, and some light, well you can see the cloud and light. It was handheld at 1.3 seconds f stop 5.6
ISO 800 and my widest lens, at it's widest, 18 mm digital Rebel.
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This is how it came out of the camera, just RAW converted to JPEG.
g again........
After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
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If not, then this is a perfect candidate for the Photoshop challenge. Make one RAW exposure keeping the sky the way you have it right now. Save it. Then make a second RAW exposure, bringing out some detail in the foreground. Save it under a different title.
Then paste one image over the other, make a mask, and reveal the sky from the first exposure, and reveal the foreground from the second exposure. I think you'd have a corking shot.
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Sam was asking about night shots, and I was thinking about this frightful night.
I went and got this shot, converted the orig to jpeg just to show him, which I didn't, lol. Then I brought out just enough in the foreground that I could see detail, that would be a matter of the monitor and the personal artistic taste of the viewer. I did think of some form of pasting, but I don't know how to do what you just said.
However......................... I was going to put this on the challenge, was just about to, had my copy and my finger triggered, was going to call it something like "time to go home", then I realized that it was taken before Monday. Darn and double darn. But that is how close even the informed can be to really messing up, doing something wrong.
I was excited for awhile, smile.
But if you ever have time, perhaps you could tell me how you "paste" yours together. I found one thing in a book, it takes it into layers, then into a blend mode, etc. When you and Andy just say Paste, I would love to know what you mean.
ginger (Thanks so much for stopping by and for commenting, it was so appreciated!)
This was shot fri night, to be truthful, if any other weekend shots are let in, please let me know.
I finally got this "blended". It is so frustrating, I have no idea what I am doing, and to finally get the top layer to come free and go on the other layer, it is just try, try, try, no idea why it does/doesn't work. It should not be so much work. Since it is, I sure won't use it much.
Oh, I also put some G blur on it, put it back in layers and hit multiply, I didn't like it as light as it was. This is as light as I think a night shot goes. And the beach is a bit dirty with all the storms and stuff. I sharpened it every which way again. They all work. Don't seem to work against each other either.
If anyone actually reads this, could you please sign your name somewhere. I think I am talking to my computer..............
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