John: You did a nice job of the lighting. Have had to work mine a lot to even the lighting out. You sure got some nice images from that trip! Pat
Posted by Richard Ennis on October 18, 2006 at 9:04 AM
Nice Shot John! I haven't even starting processing this scene yet! I would try and get more detail out of the dark area on the left if possible.
Posted by Jim Salge on October 18, 2006 at 9:08 AM
Nice shot John. I see so many shots with the summit in the clear, but I've always been fond of dramatic in the clouds shots. Only nit is the dark shadow at left streambank, but otherwise this is very nice.
Can I ask where this was shot from, looks like a tremendous view!
I'll do a shadow adjustment on this and see if there is approvement without effecting the other areas of the photo. I'll repost it.
Jim, I recall it was taken off of Rt 2. Jim Deasy has it marked on his map. I failed to mark my map.
John
Posted by Richard Ennis on October 18, 2006 at 12:05 PM
John, Instead of S/H Tool, try this:
Create a new layer, setting your blend mode to "Soft Light" and click the "fill with 50% gray" box. Then, on the new layer, take a soft WHITE brush, with the oppacity set to about 20%. Now just run the brush over the dark area to lighten it. You will only be using 20% oppacity, so if one pass doesn't lighten it enough, just run the brush over again until you like it. If you go too far and it's too light, just switch to a BLACK brush and paint back the darkness.
I like this method, because I can always remember WHITE BRUSH = Ligher, and BLACK BRUSH = Darker.
Don't use the Dodge and Burn tools, they are way to harsh and do more harm than good in my opinion.
I used the S/H tool and it worked pretty well. I will post it tomorrow after the 48 hrs is up. I tried your technique and it didn't work too well. I must have done something wrong. I opened up new layer and blend to soft light and checked the 50% gray box. After this is where I probably went wrong. I opened up brushes and it didn't show white or black. It only showed different types and diameters. I did try that with 20% opacity. I passed several times and nothing happened. I changed to normal and increased the opacity to 100% and went over the photo I then did get lightening of the area. It turned the area like there was a fog. I can put in my own fog in now. I played with other %. I didn't see anyplace for white or black brushes. I will will have to play around with this technique some more. Thanks.
John
Posted by Robert Near on October 18, 2006 at 10:33 PM
John
I just processed my photo from this location which I processed the Nikon RAW image with Capture NX. I love this shot and angle which I think we all got. I found by shooting RAW I was able to bring out more of the shadow details during conversion using Nikon Captures D-Lighting, I will post my image in next day or so.
Robert
Posted by Richard Ennis on October 19, 2006 at 8:32 AM
I love the D-Lighting feature in Nikon Capture. I think it works much better than the Shadow Highlight tool in PS. It would be interesting to see everyone's version of this shot. We all had relatively the same angle, but I am sure many different focal lengths were used, as well as Horizontal vs. Verticle comps!
Wonderful shot John! Aside from the darkness in the left part of the frame, this photograph is very nice and soothing!
Also how did you get to this spot? I've done the Crawford Notch south towards North Conway and Conway and back up north towards Jackson to turn into Mt. Washington, but I don't remember seeing this before.
I have an idea of a shot of this place I'd like to make
Discussion
9 repliesCamera/Settings:Canon 5D, 1/160 @ f/10, ISO 500, Focal Length-70mm
John
Can I ask where this was shot from, looks like a tremendous view!
Jim, I recall it was taken off of Rt 2. Jim Deasy has it marked on his map. I failed to mark my map.
John
Create a new layer, setting your blend mode to "Soft Light" and click the "fill with 50% gray" box. Then, on the new layer, take a soft WHITE brush, with the oppacity set to about 20%. Now just run the brush over the dark area to lighten it. You will only be using 20% oppacity, so if one pass doesn't lighten it enough, just run the brush over again until you like it. If you go too far and it's too light, just switch to a BLACK brush and paint back the darkness.
I like this method, because I can always remember WHITE BRUSH = Ligher, and BLACK BRUSH = Darker.
Don't use the Dodge and Burn tools, they are way to harsh and do more harm than good in my opinion.
Rich
I used the S/H tool and it worked pretty well. I will post it tomorrow after the 48 hrs is up. I tried your technique and it didn't work too well. I must have done something wrong. I opened up new layer and blend to soft light and checked the 50% gray box. After this is where I probably went wrong. I opened up brushes and it didn't show white or black. It only showed different types and diameters. I did try that with 20% opacity. I passed several times and nothing happened. I changed to normal and increased the opacity to 100% and went over the photo I then did get lightening of the area. It turned the area like there was a fog. I can put in my own fog in now.
John
I just processed my photo from this location which I processed the Nikon RAW image with Capture NX. I love this shot and angle which I think we all got. I found by shooting RAW I was able to bring out more of the shadow details during conversion using Nikon Captures D-Lighting, I will post my image in next day or so.
Robert
Also how did you get to this spot? I've done the Crawford Notch south towards North Conway and Conway and back up north towards Jackson to turn into Mt. Washington, but I don't remember seeing this before.
I have an idea of a shot of this place I'd like to make