Thanks Moose,
I think I have the original on a backup drive at home, but can't really
remember what it's like. I had worked the sky on a separate layer but
only adjusted the levels & saturation. On my first attempt to separate
the sky from the ground I ended up with a line along the tops of the
trees which I had to get rid of, I'm experimenting with differing
feather settings to see what works best. I'd underexposed in camera to
reduce the burned out highlights.
Thanks for the advice, I think I'm heading in the right direction.
Stuart
Moose wrote:
> I like the composition a lot.
> I don't know what the original looks like, but the posted image sky
> looks unnatural because so much of the cloud detail is lost to blown
> highlights. Large areas are pure white, with no detail. With Contrast
> set to Hard and shooting JPEG, the detail may just be gone. Perhaps the
> EV setting of -7/10 saved some that was lost to overenthusiastic,
> unsubtle work on the sky in post.
>
> Working to enhance sky with bright clouds takes some care. If working
> with it as a separate layer, I sometimes lower the brightness a lot,
> work with the tonal graduation, then bring the brightest parts up to
> white at the end. Or sometimes Shadow/Highlight can bring down and
> spread out the sky/clouds so they can be touched up without losing the
> highlights.
>
> Moose
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