Desert

[khoek]

Pinnacles of Western Australia. C&C requested.

[Desertraptor]

Very nice.
I've lived here all my life and not seen them yet

[kenyc]

Wow, very nice. Sky seems a bit muted. Did you use an GND on this? I love it, but would love it more if there were more contrast in the sky, whiter clouds in particular.

KAC

[khoek]

Wow, very nice. Sky seems a bit muted. Did you use an GND on this? I love it, but would love it more if there were more contrast in the sky, whiter clouds in particular.
I used a CP on this, but it didn't seem to have quite the desired effect. Thanks for the tip.

[PeppermintP]

I would add a soft light layer (about 50%) and increase the contrast a bit. Love the clouds. I lived in WA for 5 years and i have never been there.

[bryanj87]

Beautiful shot. Love the sky.

[rssfhs]

What a cool place!!!

[bob393]

Great shot but the sky needs more pop!

[Photo-addict]

Amazing. Have to be there once. ;)

[Becca]

Terrific shot! I agree that the sky needs a little more contrast. That should be fairly easy to fix in PS.

[kenyc]

Since you have image editing ok I took a stab at it:



KAC

[khoek]

I would add a soft light layer (about 50%) and increase the contrast a bit.
Ok so this must be a PS thing. I understand the contrast part, but the prior adding of a 50% soft layer is beyond my experience. Can you be a bit more explicit?

Since you have image editing ok I took a stab at it:
Yowza! How did you DO that? Folks, I need help understanding how to give blue sky more pop via PS ... can anyone point me to a relevant tutorial?

Thanks for the hints!!

[jdizzle]

It's a good shot but from the original you probably didn't turn the CPL to the desired effect and you wound up with what is called falloff. This caused the top right corner to darken. I've made this mistake several times so, it's something you should look out for when you look through the viewfinder. Hope that helps.

[kenyc]

Ok so this must be a PS thing. I understand the contrast part, but the prior adding of a 50% soft layer is beyond my experience. Can you be a bit more explicit?


Yowza! How did you DO that? Folks, I need help understanding how to give blue sky more pop via PS ... can anyone point me to a relevant tutorial?

Thanks for the hints!!

There's probably easier ways, but I used the Magic Wand to select all the areas of the sky and then did a (I think) auto contrast, but you could do it manually to the desired effect as well.

KAC

[Becca]

There's probably easier ways, but I used the Magic Wand to select all the areas of the sky and then did a (I think) auto contrast, but you could do it manually to the desired effect as well.

KAC

When I played with it, I used the magic wand tool too. But I used curves and clicked on the whitest part of the clouds with the white eyedropper to bring out the whites. Looks a lot like your auto contrast results, so I would say your solution was easier than mine!

[Avi]

I prefer the Beccanh version over KenyC....

A beautiful image khoek....

[athomefun]

Interesting shot, looks like a fun place to visit and get pics. Shot wise I like the deeper blue sky ones but thats just my preference. Great shot!

[EveryMilesAMemory]

Looks like a movie set from Star Wars or something like that!!

Very Cool shot!