Magnificent Marrawah!

[TwinII]

Here's another shot from the awesome light seen at Marrawah in Tasmania during an 8 day photography trip there last week.


Magnificent Marrawah! by Martin Canning, on Flickr

Thanks for looking,

C&C Welcome!

Martin

P.S. Any tips on how to get rid of the haloing around the sun flare on the tree in the foreground?

[slobber]

New wallpaper, beautiful colour and light

[matt-chops]

Mate, that's a beautiful shot. The composition and colour are just magic. I'm green with envy at your trip down there.

Originally Posted by TwinII

P.S. Any tips on how to get rid of the haloing around the sun flare on the tree in the foreground?

For this one I would:

1. Create an adjustment layer and adjust that haloing next to the tree to proper exposure (or if you open the original RAW as a Smart Object by holding Shift and clicking open in ACR you can make a new Smart Object copy of the layer and adjust it in that)
2. Create a mask for this layer/adjustment layer
3. Create a duplicate layer of the original photo (later discard this layer)
4. Absolutely smash the levels to make it super contrasty
5. Do a colour range selection on the lighter areas to select the area to the right of the tree
6. Switch to Quick Mask and tidy up your selection
7. Feather the selection by a few pixels (3-4, just to soften the edge between sky and tree)
8. With a very light very soft brush zoom right in and brush in the mask of the layer/adjustment layer
9. Admire your work

[TwinII]

Originally Posted by matt-chops

For this one I would:

1. Create an adjustment layer and adjust that haloing next to the tree to proper exposure (or if you open the original RAW as a Smart Object by holding Shift and clicking open in ACR you can make a new Smart Object copy of the layer and adjust it in that)
2. Create a mask for this layer/adjustment layer
3. Create a duplicate layer of the original photo (later discard this layer)
4. Absolutely smash the levels to make it super contrasty
5. Do a colour range selection on the lighter areas to select the area to the right of the tree
6. Switch to Quick Mask and tidy up your selection
7. Feather the selection by a few pixels (3-4, just to soften the edge between sky and tree)
8. With a very light very soft brush zoom right in and brush in the mask of the layer/adjustment layer
9. Admire your work

Thanks for the tip Matt - I'll get to doing that one day! I really like this shot....so may go on the wall!

We have to head out for a shoot some time. I'm back into Uni work tomorrow but if the weather is looking good hit me up or I'll hit you up.

[BeastHouse]

Is this a HDR?

[matt-chops]

Originally Posted by TwinII

We have to head out for a shoot some time. I'm back into Uni work tomorrow but if the weather is looking good hit me up or I'll hit you up.

Rain, hail or shine, I'm set for a shoot this Saturday arvo... it's been waaay too long.

[BuD]

yep that light sure was pretty really brought out some nice colours

[TwinII]

Originally Posted by BeastHouse

Is this a HDR?

Nah this isn't HDR.

Originally Posted by matt-chops

Rain, hail or shine, I'm set for a shoot this Saturday arvo... it's been waaay too long.

Ok......let me know details - I'll see if I can make it - depends on how Im going with my uni work

[BeastHouse]

Originally Posted by TwinII

Nah this isn't HDR

wow I'm impressed then! What processing did you use? Any grad filters? It's a truely amazing exposure!

[TwinII]

Originally Posted by BeastHouse

wow I'm impressed then! What processing did you use? Any grad filters? It's a truely amazing exposure!

Thanks. I used a 0.6 or 0.9 Hard grad (I can't remember which!). This meant I lost a lot of detail in the trees so used a grad filter on Lightroom and brought up the shadows which evened it out. I then just used the adjustment brush to pull the shadows back down a bit on the closest tree as it was a little over exposed. Other than that I think slight contrast, saturation, highlights and shadows tweak and of course a slight angle adjustment (as I cant take a single shot with the horizon straight!).