Shepherds Delight

[lumix]

Red sky at night, Shepherds Delight. Red sky in the morning, Shepherds warning.

Not sure if I have captured the mood here. What do you think.

[Stephen]

Re: Shepherds Delight

Red sky at night, Shepherds Delight. Red sky in the morning, Shepherds warning.

Not sure if I have captured the mood here. What do you think.

Ron its a beautiful sky, no question. However my impression is that because there is still so much light in the sky, then there should be a little more detail in the shadow area.

In fact this would be an ideal candidate for an HDR image. What do you think?

[Mowgli]

Re: Shepherds Delight

I have been playing around with sunsets recently (the sun has finally come out) and with some of the cloud formations. I seem to be getting the same problem, the darker area`s are not easily visible. I have played with this one and selected the lower area and lightened it. All the other pics I took the sky was far too red and were consequentially binned

[Stephen]

Re: Shepherds Delight

I have been playing around with sunsets recently (the sun has finally come out) and with some of the cloud formations. I seem to be getting the same problem, the darker area`s are not easily visible. I have played with this one and selected the lower area and lightened it. All the other pics I took the sky was far too red and were consequentially binned

I think there is loads of detail to got out of the shadow area yet Mowgli. I even applied a subtle vignette to this one

[Tinka]

Re: Shepherds Delight

A super image with great potential, try to lighten the shadows a touch more by HDR as suggested by Stephen, or you could try the lasoo trick. Useing the lasoo tool select the sky area but overlap the foreground area by a small amount and do not use straight lines when you overlap, wiggle it a bit to make a wavy line selection, then feather the selection by 150 to 200 pixels, depending on the size of the image, you then invert the selection to select the foreground and tweek the foreground for the result you want, however this method is not as good as HDR as it can result in noise in the shadow areas. Just a thought, if you are shooting raw, you can adjust one image for shadows and another for the sky and HDR the Two images.
Good luck.

[Ian]

Re: Shepherds Delight

Ron its a beautiful sky, no question. However my impression is that because there is still so much light in the sky, then there should be a little more detail in the shadow area.

In fact this would be an ideal candidate for an HDR image. What do you think?

This is always going to be a matter of personal preference, but I really like it as it is - the sky is near perfect in my mind and I love the hint of moonlight effect on the foreground. This gets a big thumbs up from me !

Ian

[lumix]

Re: Shepherds Delight

This is always going to be a matter of personal preference, but I really like it as it is - the sky is near perfect in my mind and I love the hint of moonlight effect on the foreground. This gets a big thumbs up from me !

Ian

The original image is a bit lighter. There was, I felt, to much detail in the foreground and have darkened the image to give, as Ian describes, just a hint of light. Most of my sunsets have silhouettes for the foreground and I was trying to get away from this trend. Have tried a HDR but not happy with it. Also tried Tone Mapping and that looked horrible. Guess I still have a lot to learn.