How do they do this?

[mdg]

When I look at the image I'm drawn to the poor edge masking of the tree on the right (look to where the sky is showing through). It immediately looks fake and spoils the whole image for me.

 

[jboeckler]

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[Forsj]

Great explanation, thanks for sharing

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[wrider]

It looks like those are multiple images that have been placed in
layers via masking. For example, the images that have the sky
properly exposed have a layer over it that uses a mask to hide the
foregroup. Then the image with properly exposed foreground is
placed on top and it has a layer with a mask that hides the sky.
This is kind of fun and you can get some interesting effects since
the layers themselves can do things like shift colors, etc.

BTW, the Retouching forum is probably a better place to ask this
question.

jerry

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Good response. If you know PS then you know how this was done and if you read the photogs comments you know why. This is the look he wants. Very creative. I like them. It's not HDR at all. It's more about the colors.

If you are a so-called "purist" you probably will find fault. If you are in the retouching forum, you will be interested. This is also why you cannot replace PS with LightRoom.
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