AlanLichty
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Nice pastel skyline, early colors in the aspen, and a few cows to remind you to watch where you step.
Wish I could say I recognize it - not a road I have driven. yet.
Wish I could say I recognize it - not a road I have driven. yet.
Hey Alan, it's a pretty cool county road for fall colors. CR 7 and 9 are better, but this is still pretty nice. As for your seeing it, unless you are towing a suv behind your RV you won't be getting very far down these roads. This one could be the worst for wide vehicles when it gets down into this area it can make for a pretty narrow road as there are not very good pulloffs so the parked vehicles can intrude into the dirt road at spots.
Martín el Escocés
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Very nice, Jim.
lightsgood
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Beautiful scene Jim. Makes me want to be there!
Joe Colozzo
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excellent capture of a beautiful scene
Alan Hoelzle
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It is crisp and looks like a great place to be, but the colors do not look right to me, and shadows too open. Did you do this in PS with a layer mask?
If not, May I ask what your settings were in LR?
If not, May I ask what your settings were in LR?
Hey Alan, I am glad you like this.
I don't use LR, never have. LR for me always felt more like a marketing ploy with limited Photoshop features in it. Now they certainly have improved on it, and I know lot's of people use it. But I just use Photoshop. All of my images are usually 1 image that is processed with layer masks so that I can adjust the sky separate from the ground. And depending on the image I may have 3 or 4 layer masks going to do subtle adjustments and in most cases to preserve the highlights while adjusting the darker areas.
And you are right, I probably increased the DR a bit too much. If I went back to work on this image, I think I would darken the ground layer just a little bit then it is here.
Alan Hoelzle
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Hi Jim. I only use Lightroom, because I am not smart enough to figure out Photoshop.
Like the idea of layer masks--but, want to make sure those layers look real.
Like the idea of layer masks--but, want to make sure those layers look real.
Alan Hoelzle
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What is DR? I assume you mean the range of light and shadow that can be captured. But, here's the thing, in PS, using layers, you can get a a wider range than is even what your eyes see. This, to me, does not look real.
Alan Hoelzle
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And if a pic does not look "real", it loses its artistic sense. Just my opinion.
DR = Dynamic Range
Remember, even with today's awesome sensors our eyes have a larger DR then a camera does. The other thing to remember is that the computer built into us, our brain works with our eyes to balance between the light and dark of a scene.
Like for instance with a reflection. A reflection is typically 2 stops of light less then the sky, that's how a camera will capture it. But most often when we view that same scene with our eyes, our brain actually balances the scene so that the reflection and sky appear to be much closer in exposure then they really are.
And the same is for most scenes we see. Until it really starts getting very dark, our eyes will brighten up the ground naturally. Take a super bright sunny scene, when we view it with our eyes, the ground around you doesn't go dark like it's at night does it? But if you photographed it with your camera and exposed for the sun properly, the ground would go very dark.
Some people make the mistake of taking what their camera captures as reality, it's not. What we actually see is the reality that we perceive. The key is to remember that when are processing and then balancing the same the same as our eyes saw it.
Alan Hoelzle
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Agree, and you are correct. This pic is just not how I think my eyes would have seen it. Midtones look too open.