Canon EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

mine1 wrote in post #16821683
I have also thought about completly blacking out the sky

Colosseo is a big challenge, first is so big, and no room enough around, that u need a 12mm to fit it in. And if u fit the whole thing in, there's the risk of "Already-Seen-Cliche". i would crop it hard, leaving trees out.
'bout the sky, if u shoot raw u can make a copy of the file with +1 or even +2 exposure, then in PS u crop the sky with then minutes of work with LAZO tool, or u can do it in "LEVELS" putting SCREEN on the sky section.
yeah, in places like this, people is such an issue, yet with tripod u can do it next time just like this: u shoot every 1 minute, maybe 10 shots or more, then u put in one PS file the 10 LAYERS, so u can erase/crop people that in 10 minutes is moved away from the image, and u have ur monument still in the background. Finally, i prefer F16/22 using Neutral Density filters, maybe ND4 or ND8, so i can have HUGE long exposure times, but this is my style

METAL1 wrote in post #16857426
Colosseo is a big challenge, first is so big, and no room enough around, that u need a 12mm to fit it in. And if u fit the whole thing in, there's the risk of "Already-Seen-Cliche". i would crop it hard, leaving trees out.
'bout the sky, if u shoot raw u can make a copy of the file with +1 or even +2 exposure, then in PS u crop the sky with then minutes of work with LAZO tool, or u can do it in "LEVELS" putting SCREEN on the sky section.
yeah, in places like this, people is such an issue, yet with tripod u can do it next time just like this: u shoot every 1 minute, maybe 10 shots or more, then u put in one PS file the 10 LAYERS, so u can erase/crop people that in 10 minutes is moved away from the image, and u have ur monument still in the background. Finally, i prefer F16/22 using Neutral Density filters, maybe ND4 or ND8, so i can have HUGE long exposure times, but this is my style

thanks for the input. I will try checking is I can just lighten the sky. but being that this was shot around midnight it might be too black to do anything with. and as far as the coliseum thing, it is really just the background the subject of the picture is the arch.

mine1 wrote in post #16858563
thanks for the input. I will try checking is I can just lighten the sky. but being that this was shot around midnight it might be too black to do anything with.

i tried with layers and brightness (u say image editing ok) yet on CR file, or maybe working more than i did, should be better.
yeah, with longer exposure like 30 seconds or minutes, clouds could have "washed" the sky..

HDR & Tractor

Looking through my old pickies

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Fog in Japan

Il Giro @ Dublin

joerg218 wrote in post #16913421

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porta_antunnacensis von Joerg Esper auf Flickr

You certainly have sunsets/sunrises down. Nice work!

Thx

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