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Subject: [OM] Re: Simple Photoshop tutorial
From: Russ Butler <russ@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:09:05 -0400
Moose wrote:
> Jeff Keller wrote:
>> I agree that the correction went too far. 
> As do I. The light is all wrong. If the sun is only just lighting the 
> peaks, how can the barn, etc. be lit so much brighter than the lower slopes?
> 
> As others have said, I see this shot as being about the sunrise first, 
> then about the foreground. Sure the foreground is blah, but it doesn't 
> have to look like it was pasted in from another shot at a different time 
> of day.
>> This and some of the corrections 
>> Moose does to see how far he can push an image have a "picture postcard" 
>> llook that would probably sell well but looks too artificial to my eye.
>>   
> You rang? Actually, I'd be a bit ashamed to have posted the corrected 
> shot in the tutorial.
> 
> Here are a couple of versions that I think better capture the sunrise 
> feeling while bringing the foreground out of the blahs 
> <http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/Others/052206_big.htm>.

Way better.

I prefer the first level 'alternate' but even the 'dramatic' one is 
believable. (Click to get that one.)

Thanks for taking the time to show how it should have been done.


-- 
Russ Butler (NJ USA)


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