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  • Q: acceptable level of blowing out of the sky?

    While I was reviewing some of my recent shots, somewhat peculiar question came to my mind. It is about the blowing out of the sky.

    I would appreciate your opinions/comments/critiques as to the acceptable level of blowing out of the sky in the first three shots attached.

    The sky of the three pictures are not fully blowing out but nearly so with different degrees. Is it ok for you or none of them is acceptable just for that sake?
    Or even if the sky is blowing out, when the area of the sky is only a small part of the whole picture frame, is it ok for you? (no samples here - could not find soon)
    Or none of them is ok regardless of the size of the sky once you see a blowing out portion in the shots? In other words does the blowing out destroy that shot as a whole?

    Here the sky of all the pics attached was not intended as the major theme. It is a supporting player in the landscape pics.

    Kindly disregard dusts or others if you see them on some. Resized/sharpened only.

    As we can attach now up to five pics, the fourth and the fifth ones are attached for comparison purposes to show the level that I think the sky is not blowing out at all in any sense.
    yoshi
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    Re: Q: acceptable level of blowing out of the sky?

    The sky is too far gone in the first image for my taste. I think blownout sky can be okay it just depends on the image. IMHO.
    The older I get the better I used to be!

    Glyn's Gallery

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    • #3
      Re: Q: acceptable level of blowing out of the sky?

      IMO Yoshi, only the sky in the first picture is blown in parts.

      I have taken it into Photoshop and cropped the top. It still may be a touch blown, but it is a nice picture.

      I could be wrong here (and I am sure someone will correct me if I am), but when we talk about a sky being blown, I thought it meant that there was absolutely NO colour it, ie, if it were printed, there would be nothing on the paper - it is pure white, (in Photoshop, when clicking on the Information tab and running your mouse over the light areas, the number of the pixels would be 255). In image No.1 there are quite a few of these and I could not retrieve any information, but it image No. 2 I could not see any pixels of the value 255, therefore, IMHO I don't think it is blown at all.

      I think I know what I am talking about but if some of the techies are about they might clarify this for me and for you Yoshi.

      Anyway, they are all pleasant pictures, but the first two come up really well when put into Photoshop - a lot more detail and vibrancy is available to be retrieved.

      HTH
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      Audrey

      https://www.flickr.com/photos/autumn36/

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      • #4
        Re: Q: acceptable level of blowing out of the sky?

        Originally posted by yoshi View Post
        While I was reviewing some of my recent shots, somewhat peculiar question came to my mind. It is about the blowing out of the sky.

        I would appreciate your opinions/comments/critiques as to the acceptable level of blowing out of the sky in the first three shots attached.

        The sky of the three pictures are not fully blowing out but nearly so with different degrees. Is it ok for you or none of them is acceptable just for that sake?
        Or even if the sky is blowing out, when the area of the sky is only a small part of the whole picture frame, is it ok for you? (no samples here - could not find soon)
        Or none of them is ok regardless of the size of the sky once you see a blowing out portion in the shots? In other words does the blowing out destroy that shot as a whole?

        Here the sky of all the pics attached was not intended as the major theme. It is a supporting player in the landscape pics.

        Kindly disregard dusts or others if you see them on some. Resized/sharpened only.

        As we can attach now up to five pics, the fourth and the fifth ones are attached for comparison purposes to show the level that I think the sky is not blowing out at all in any sense.
        yoshi

        Hi yoshi,

        I would say that I consider the sky being blown out only in the 1st photo.
        The rest look to me OK.

        George

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        • #5
          Re: Q: acceptable level of blowing out of the sky?

          If the sky is playing a key role in a given image, I think more people will be inclined to criticise it if the highlights are blown. This probably applies even more in thirds compositions, where the sky makes up two-thirds of the shot.

          However in some shots, the non-sky areas are such that the sky becomes less relevant because the rest of the image is so engaging. I guess it just depends on the individual photo.

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          • #6
            Re: Q: acceptable level of blowing out of the sky?

            I had a quick look for the reason I wanted to go with my gut feeling, I did not spend long on each photo and did not read other comments for that reason, the first two the sky seems to take me away from the ground, which I feel in itself looks great but when I view as a whole it seems flat for some reason, when I got to number 3 the whole shot seemed to come together and then for 4, with the last I got a slight feeling of the sky may be too dark but it did make the tree stand out.

            Stu

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            • #7
              Re: Q: acceptable level of blowing out of the sky?

              Many thanks for all the comments, everybody. I regret I could not say thanks earlier, as I was away home for a while.
              During film days, I almost always use exposure bracketing for three shots or in some rare cases five to seven shots to minimize the risk of over/low exposure.
              I sticked to this habit for a while even with a DSLR but later stopped doing the exposure bracketing all the time. - which makes me somewhat (over?-)sensitive agaist highlights.
              yoshi

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