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Bill Allsopp
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Bill what was your technique for straightening and the sky?

Cheers

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First let me say this is a great image to work with because there is a whole range of tones with almost nothing off the ends of the scale.

WORK FLOW

I'll put it all down then I can safely get the notes off my desk

Straighten.

I started off with the transform tool but didn't like it so I went into lens correction dialled in-62% of vertical and cropped to that.

Tones

There were ever so slightly blown whites in the sky so next I opened up a curves layer and pullled the whutes into zone 9

Merged

Processing

This was done thro' Nik Silver efex using a high structure with a 60% green filter and highlight and shadow protection set at 30%

This left just a small area of cloud looking overprocessed so I applied 3px gaussian blur to that area

Dodged path and area to the left (only a little)

Brightness and contrast layer over the path only

Burnt in the far hills a tad.

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Its more subtle and effective and gives you more control than the hue/saturation sliders.



Excellent I'll give it a bash.

I've just done a spot of googling on LAB and it sounds an interesting, the reviews on the book suggest it's quite heavy reading is it a book you'd recommend?

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Straighten.

I started off with the transform tool but didn't like it so I went into lens correction dialled in-62% of vertical and cropped to that.

Tones

There were ever so slightly blown whites in the sky so next I opened up a curves layer and pullled the whutes into zone 9

Merged

Processing

This was done thro' Nik Silver efex using a high structure with a 60% green filter and highlight and shadow protection set at 30%

This left just a small area of cloud looking overprocessed so I applied 3px gaussian blur to that area

Dodged path and area to the left (only a little)

Brightness and contrast layer over the path only

Burnt in the far hills a tad.

That's it.




I shall go back to the image and have another go.


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Excellent I'll give it a bash.

I've just done a spot of googling on LAB and it sounds an interesting, the reviews on the book suggest it's quite heavy reading is it a book you'd recommend?




I'd recommend asking the library to get it for you if they havent got it in stock -its a lot of theory which is interesting but not something you really need to keep - so worth a read but not worth buying unless your a bit of a geek
(I bought it but Im only a wannabe geek not a real geek cos I never finished it :lol:}

had another tiny tweek on your image - it's been a really useful exercise for me- thnaks

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That looks slightly moodier which is what I envisaged. emoticon

Glad it was of help.


In my searching I found this On dgrin might be of interest.


Think I'll go back to it tonight.
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That looks slightly moodier which is what I envisaged. emoticon

Glad it was of help.


In my searching I found this On dgrin might be of interest.


Think I'll go back to it tonight.



I just stretched the adjustment brush effects I already had on that image further into the image - one from top one from bottom
wow interestign link - I have put it in here btw


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