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Took a couple of shots on a beach in Devon last week. Was all a bit hurried as the sky was cloud free all week which made them a bit dull until one night some appeared. Got to the beach and set everything up, had my filters, but had left the filter holder behind - AARRGGHHH! Had to hold them in front of the lens.
Exif has gone awol on these, they were 30s @ f22 ISO was about 100 iirc. I used a purple grad and an ND grad (Cokin P) and a screw-in Hoya ND, which in hindsight I should have tried without as that's probably what made the foreground too dark. Didn't get much time to play about tbh, took 8 shots and then it was quite dark so had to head back.
Shot 1 - two shots merged together, one exposed for foreground and one for sky.
Shot 2 - this is a landscape crop from a portrait shot.
Of the two I prefer shot 1. There's a quite nice landscape crop to be had from shot 1 imo, from the very top portion of the shot.
Any thoughts, preferences, criticisms welcome. I would have liked to have gone back and tried a few different compositions but maybe next time...
Exif has gone awol on these, they were 30s @ f22 ISO was about 100 iirc. I used a purple grad and an ND grad (Cokin P) and a screw-in Hoya ND, which in hindsight I should have tried without as that's probably what made the foreground too dark. Didn't get much time to play about tbh, took 8 shots and then it was quite dark so had to head back.
Shot 1 - two shots merged together, one exposed for foreground and one for sky.
Shot 2 - this is a landscape crop from a portrait shot.
Of the two I prefer shot 1. There's a quite nice landscape crop to be had from shot 1 imo, from the very top portion of the shot.
Any thoughts, preferences, criticisms welcome. I would have liked to have gone back and tried a few different compositions but maybe next time...
Mr Noble said:
Very nice. I like them both. Keep meaning to work out how to stitch and merge. Tried it once but the end result was well overdone!
Great shots.
Great shots.
For Shot 1 I took the RAW image and increased the exposure compensation to get the foreground to how you see it now so I had a jpeg with foreground correctly exposed, and a jpeg with sky correctly exposed.
I open the image with the correct foreground, and paste (on a separate layer in PS) the image with correct sky on top of it. Then I get the eraser tool and gradually erase the foreground from the 'correct sky' shot so that the correct foreground, from the image beneath, becomes visible. Then just flatten image and save. It's really very simple.
HTH
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