The fight between light and dark (image)

[nik1024]

In the land of banding the battle between the light and the dark:



(D200, 17-55DX, Nikon CP, heavy PP)

 

[Adam Kmiec]

nice shot, love the contrast.
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[JimTech]

very nice, you kept the forces in balance. What a difficult picture to make come out so well.
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[Hans Giersberg]

Love the light and the colors. Nice work.

Hans.

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[rfc151260]

Beautiful landscape. Very Nicely Done !

Regards

RFC

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[Kerry Pierce]

Very interesting image, with good comp and colors. Nicely done.

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[Jr Kehoe]

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[Humanoid]

This is a nice composition!

Very good colors, but the highlites are blown a bit. This would have been a great 2 shot pic. One exposing for the highlites and the other for the shadows and midtones, then blended together as layers in pshop or something similar.

Here is a link on how to do this.

http://olympusdigitalschool.com/photo_lessons/E-1_Getting_The_Best_Possible_Exposure/index.html

Love the greens.
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[nik1024]

Thanks to all.

Yes parts are blown of course, I couldn't get away without it, the greens were almost black and I needed far mountains to still be visible (hence mentioned heavy PP).

I could try multiple exposures if not for the fact the damn clouds kept moving and I didn't know how to stop them

 

[Michael Mohrmann]

Looks like a somewhat difficult shot to get right. I've seen something like this elsewhere in some landscape shots. I think a double raw conversion or some such postprocessing method wasbeing used. Did you do something similar here?

Pretty impressive of what can be done with photographic skill and the tools that let you do it. Thanks.

 

[Gary Woodard]

Graduated filter, (old film trick).

 

[nik1024]

Graduated filter, (old film trick).

Yes, thanks. I'm not a master of such shots, not a master of anything yet, I just accidentally shot it and thought it is a good illustration of the mood of this forum , didn't mean much else...

But I think d200 handles shadows really well, I can't go back and try same with D70 but that's my unscientific impression. The scene was extremely contrasty even with CP (all I had) I didn't think I'll be able to pull off even this image but it came out Ok.

 

[nik1024]

Oranges:



And an old car:



Then you're all set.

 

[THomasAdams]

Hey, in your quest for balance in the universe you forgot about lens flare! I am joking of course Very nice photo, it reminds me of one I had that did not come out so well indeed. You make it look easy! Keep up the great work, and thank you for sharing!

Best regards,
Tom
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[RudivanS]

Looks like you've nailed the 200 down pat.
Your website full of great color and PP.
Rudi - http://www.vanstarrex.com
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[Humanoid]

Graduated filter, (old film trick).

With the limited dynamic range of digital images it wouldn't have helped nearly, as much as, having shot multiple exposures and using layer masks in pshop to correct and merge the exposures. After you do it a few times it is very simple and fast.

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[Humanoid]

Thanks to all.

Yes parts are blown of course, I couldn't get away without it, the
greens were almost black and I needed far mountains to still be
visible (hence mentioned heavy PP).

I could try multiple exposures if not for the fact the damn clouds
kept moving and I didn't know how to stop them

Not following you on the last paragraph. Wheather the clouds are moving or not it doesn't matter. Yes you can pull off this shot.

You shoot in manual exposure mode on a tripod. Meter for the highlites take the shot. Make adjustments if needed untill you're happy with the highlites.

Next, increase exposure for the shadows and or midtones and take the shot.

Here is poor example but an example nontheless

I used 3 exposures for this shot. I metered for the sky, ocean and shore. Blended the three exposures together using layer masks within pshop. This was taken with the D70 and 18-70 kit lens.

Give it a shot, pun intended



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[Kerry Pierce]

Here is poor example but an example nontheless

I used 3 exposures for this shot. I metered for the sky, ocean and
shore. Blended the three exposures together using layer masks
within pshop. This was taken with the D70 and 18-70 kit lens.

It's a very cool photo and your blending was done very nicely, IMO.

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[nik1024]

Yes, thank you, I'll have to try it one day. Very nice image.

 

[Bill Janes]

Thanks to all.

Yes parts are blown of course, I couldn't get away without it, the
greens were almost black and I needed far mountains to still be
visible (hence mentioned heavy PP).

I could try multiple exposures if not for the fact the damn clouds
kept moving and I didn't know how to stop them

If multiple exposures are not feasable, you still can use double development with two settings of the raw converter and then blend the images in Photoshop. Here is a tutorial on the Adobe web site:

http://studio.adobe.com/us/tips/tip.jsp?p=1&id=102213&xml=phscs2at_pixelblend
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Bill Janes