You've improved the sky but worsened the foreground which was previously
just right. The trick is to combine the two. If you're using PhotoShop
keep the original as the first layer. Make the modified sky version the
second layer. To the modified sky layer add a mask. With the mask
selected get the paint bucket tool and pour black paint on the mask.
This will suddenly reveal the original first layer underneath. Then
switch to a paintbrush tool using white paint. Start painting the sky
area of the mask with white paint which will reveal the corrected sky on
the top layer.
If this had been shot in raw mode you could have done a separate
conversion for the sky and likely have gotten some more detail out of it
and then combined the two images. The ultimate, of course, would be
multiple exposures for stacking.
Chuck Norcutt
swisspace wrote:
> Here is an alternative view, I had 5 minutes free time to do a quick
> adjust so first is unadjusted and second is after my 5 mins adjustment,
> I couldn't keep the colours and get rid off the blown sky, I thought
> about cropping it out but I don't think it would work as well.
>
> unadjusted - http://thattimeoflife.smugmug.com/photos/93365580-M.jpg
>
> and adjusted - http://thattimeoflife.smugmug.com/photos/93365583-M.jpg
>
> I know I need to find more time in order to learn to do better
> adjustments (maybe I will have more time in my next life ;-) ), but
> most of the time they don't need too much tweaking
>
> cheers
> IanW
>
> Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>
>>That red sky stuff was pretty good but this was my favorite. I'd like
>>to see it on a really big print.
>>
>><http://thattimeoflife.smugmug.com/photos/93171735-M.jpg>
>>
>>Chuck Norcutt
>>
>>
>>
>
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