All packed up for the day and just about to leave the spot. suddenly the splurge of light and we knew it's not going to stay long. Few clicks in absolute hurry setting plethora of gadgets.
Am at loss of thought and idea how to process such dark and moody frame. wish to show the light yet give equal importance to whatever surrounding present. want to learn through this image to apply it elsewhere too. Inclining for PS.
Please help. thanks.
Beautiful, Vijay! I wouldn't do that much, actually. I'd probably emphasise the mountain and foreground detail, as I think you'd like to do yourself.
Here's a quick edit. I don't use PS, but ACDSee which is described as an imitation PS by some, so I'm sure you could achieve similiar effects easily.
Firstly I lightened all the dark tones ("Shadows"). Then I increased the contrast in the mountains and foreground to compensate for the "flat" light falling on them, using an Exposure Brush. This increases the saturation, making the area below the sky look a bit lurid, and the mountains very purple, distracting from the beauitful sky, so again using a Brush and Color EQ, I reduced the cyan, blue and purple tones in this area. Finally, I darkened the top left of the sky with an exposure gradient, as raising all the shadow tones initially had unnecessarily lightened the sky here.
Hi Chris. Thanks.
Hi BCAP. We will academically compare edited and non-edited in some time.
Thanks.
Have you tried a crop with just the mountains and sky? For me, the image is about the upper third and cropping what I feel is a chaotic foreground creates an interesting tension. To each their own though, so just a thought.
Hi Robert. It was clicked in landscape. which was cropped to square format and for composition.