Show Us Your RAW Conversions, BEFORE And AFTER

it kinda does

Not to mention the banding around the sun.

Heh! I'd say that sun area would be pretty impossible with anything, but the rest of the shot came out nicely. Maybe paste a mushroom cloud in the middle of the sunburst?

tonylong wrote in post #8423498
Heh! I'd say that sun area would be pretty impossible with anything, but the rest of the shot came out nicely. Maybe paste a mushroom cloud in the middle of the sunburst?

And a UFO coming down to land!!!!!

I didn't think such ends could be reached with some of them pictures

Fun thread - not a fantastic pic, and not night & day, but here's something...

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So, WhyFi, what did you do? What adjustments did you make? What software did you use? Do you have a pic of your monitor with the software running and this image up so we can see what your screen looked like as you were editing? It'd be nice to be able to see just what you did.

Tom Reichner wrote in post #8427040
So, WhyFi, what did you do? What adjustments did you make? What software did you use? Do you have a pic of your monitor with the software running and this image up so we can see what your screen looked like as you were editing? It'd be nice to be able to see just what you did.

Whew - I've been looking at my screen, seeing if a screen shot would tell a story - I don't think so, unfortunately, but I can describe what I did and in what order. This was done exclusively in LR2

* Lowered the overall exposure a little bit.

* Bumped the Fill Light to open up some of the shadows that got a little too dark. Not a problem with this photo, but I always keep an eye out for too much of an increase in noise when I lighten.

* Graduated Filter on the sky - this has become a favorite tool of mine. Within the graduated filter sliders, I:
- lowered the exposure on the sky even more
- increased saturation (rather than increase the blue saturation for the entire photo, I like to increase here, in the Graduated Filter, to avoid over-saturation elsewhere. Not really a problem with this photo, but if you had blue objects on the ground, they might get too hot)
- increased clarity (I think of it as a Local Contrast adjustment) to give more pop in the clouds, darkening the shadows on the bottom - just watch out for halos. Again, I like to do 'Clarity' for the sky here, as opposed to bumping it too much on the whole pic - with the amount of clarity I added (63! on the slider), there probably would have been really unnatural light/dark transitions elsewhere in the pic.

* Corrected for chromatic aberration

* Lots of dust spot removal (time to clean the 5D!), including covering the little radio tower on the left

* Added a little more saturation/vibrance on the whole photo, and tweaked the adjustments previously done in the Graduated Filter, if the cumulative effect got to be too much

* LR2 'Landscape Sharpen' preset

Nice sky recapture WhyFi - sounds like what I would do except I always, always leave final sharpening in Photoshop (Smart Sharpen). I do accept the default values in "Develop" on export...(I assume you last comment was all the sharpening you did)

WhyFi,

Thanks for that shot and your detailed explanation! You definitely have a great show and tell for the tools in LR2 with that gradient demo!

I went out to Seattle and had a few trips to Mt. Rainier National Park -- just after sunrise on Sunday, August 2:

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WhyFi wrote in post #8426863
Fun thread - not a fantastic pic, and not night & day, but here's something...

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I like the finished product, but I would spot heal that cloud. The filter definitlely brought out the cloud imperfection.

Tigeroter,

That is definitely a beautiful scene with Mt. Rainier you captured! I've been negligent in getting up there and taking pics of it myself, nice to see someone in POTN is capturing the beauty!

I'd love it if you could post the After shot full forum size, not in the screen capture. It looks like the foreground could use some lightening, maybe just a touch of fill light or shadow enhancing?

tonylong wrote in post #8446679
Tigeroter,

That is definitely a beautiful scene with Mt. Rainier you captured! I've been negligent in getting up there and taking pics of it myself, nice to see someone in POTN is capturing the beauty!

I'd love it if you could post the After shot full forum size, not in the screen capture. It looks like the foreground could use some lightening, maybe just a touch of fill light or shadow enhancing?

Thanks for the encouragement. I tend to have a habit of making this thread go away after my posts here.

The "after" picture at 800 pixels wide:

that is a great image, love the light on the mountain, if you fill just a tiny bit - it gives great depth to the image with the "dark " bottom!