This foto was taken in Dimmubogir, Iceland, after Sunset.
Please leave your thoughts, would could be better, what is already good/ok.
Its my first work in ps with layers
This foto was taken in Dimmubogir, Iceland, after Sunset.
Please leave your thoughts, would could be better, what is already good/ok.
Its my first work in ps with layers
The exposures are good, your colors need adjusting ( non-calibrated monitor I guess ? ), your masking for exposure blending needs refinement ( read and use luminosity masks ), the while halos ( fringing ) ruins what otherwise is a pretty good photo :)
Thank you Bill, im sure i need to rent or buy a calibration tool for my monitor, and i will watch some tutorials about how to use luminosity masks:) Thank for your advice
You're welcome my friend.
If you intend on printing photos yourself with a high quality photo printer like the Canon Pixma Pro series, or print regularly for clients, you should invest in a spectrophotometer for calibration ( you can get an Eye-One Pro ( i1 Pro ) from ebay for ~350-450$ which will give you the most accurate color reproduction your monitor can achieve ( even bad and pretty cheap monitors nowadays once calibrated properly can achieve very very good color accuracy! ).
Luminosity masks will take your photos to the next level, small details some might think, but proper blending, good exposure control and creative lighting is what separates the landscape men from the landscape boys.
Jimmy McIntyre's guides are pretty good ( and they're free )
Thank You again bill, i watched some videos from jimmy and i will continue doing that! Also i am going to buy a spectrophotometer to calibrate my monitor. Its a Asus ProArt monitor, i think its not that bad :)
With the monitor at the default/factory settings you're not seeing the colors accurately, but that's normal for 98% of the monitors out there ( only a very limited few come out of the factory with a calibration that produces very accurate colors [ average dE2000 of less than 1 ].
Calibrating it with a spectrophotometer/spectroradiometer you will get pretty spot on colors ( talking about ~ 0.8 average dE2000 which is perfect, since a dE of under 2 is very good color accuracy, under 1 is almost a perfect match between the "requested" and the displayed color.
Lennart, would you mind if I use this photo as a demonstration ( showcase ) in an article I'm writing ?
( with your copyright and credits being there of course )
Yes Bill, you can