Awesome Sunset + Hatchback

I was driving around and the sun was just amazing while it was setting. So i had to snap a couple shots.

1/200, F4, ISO800, @10mm

Here is the original...

Forget the sun.... I love the EK hatch!! I kid I kid, AWESOME, looks great

Nice light on it. I might have shot another one at a darker exposure so you could darken the sun some more, but I like this one, too.

Great picture! How did you manage get this colors in ps?

wow. visually that is stunning. great shot.

Not to be nitpicky, but the reflections on the windows are a little too bright to match the "time of day" of the shot. Or is it just me?

I think the pic is perfect, but how did you do it.

stunning picture but i too want to know how it was done...

I like it, i like the lens flare too, if you hadnt have told me i would have thought it was real

jlozano180 wrote in post #6460304
I think the pic is perfect, but how did you do it.

gsr x civic wrote in post #6463203
stunning picture but i too want to know how it was done...

Its called Smart Objects. Raw files can be pushed alot more then a jpeg. So it works when you shoot it in Raw.


Open the picture in Camera raw
Adjust the settings to give me the awesome sky
Open the image as a Smart object
Make a copy of the layer
Open the smart object (opens camera raw again)
Set the settings to normal
Then adjust the settings
Re-open it.
Then mask the sky and there u have it.

The rest was stuff like contact/levels/curves/​warmed it up etc.

by open it in camera raw, do you mean like the canon raw software? and what do you mean smart object? what do you mean mask the sky?
do you use cs2 for this?

Sucks when CS3 cant read your raw files

the only complaint I have is the noise seen on the car in the second one.. but other than that.. nice job

http://www.digitalmast​ery.com/content/view/2​9/75/

Smart objects are in Photoshop.