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noah1

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Would like to say hi to all
I am very interested in improving my landscape shots , Only new to the camera as yet only shot in a/f landscape .
Don,t seem to be getting the true blue colour of sky.
Any feedback tips very welcome
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a polarizer can help darken the sky in some circumstances, or you could use grad filters to equalise the exposure of the sky and the ground, or you can under expose by about 1/3 stop

or you can tweak it in photoshop either by mimmicing a grad filter or by using a levels layer to darken the shot a tad , then a hue saturation layer to bump the blue
 


Like that - kinda , I'm not very good with photoshop and i just did this quickly - i'm sure one of the PS maestros on here can do much better ( I think ive over done it a bit)

Incidentally my workflow was adj layer levels, move the dark point right about 10pnt, then the mid point right about 10pnt - then adj layer saturation +3 , then flatten - magic wand tool to select the sky only and then another adj levels to move the sark point another 10-15. Flatten and save etc

oh and btw you've put this in the welcome forum - you'll get a better response if you ask a nice mod person to move it to general photo critique - but welcome anyway ;)
 
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Many thanks for your time pete
very pleased with the quick transformation you achieved
Points me in the right direction.
 
Hi John :wave: and welcome to TP. I'm sure you'll find all the answers you need from the folks here. :thumbs:
 
Hey John :)

Are you shooting raw and manual/av, if not then thats the 1st two things to do.
The colour thing is due to the white balance and also the metering, the white balance on DSLR's attempts to make dark things lighter and light things darker, so long as you shoot raw and are not way off the scale you can correct in post processing.
 
funky_sam said:
Hey John :)

Are you shooting raw and manual/av, if not then thats the 1st two things to do.
The colour thing is due to the white balance and also the metering, the white balance on DSLR's attempts to make dark things lighter and light things darker, so long as you shoot raw and are not way off the scale you can correct in post processing.
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Hi funky sam, as yet i have only shot in auto focus /landscape
not to sure about how to shoot in raw and what the advantages are
sorry for being such a novice this is a learning curve for me .
 
noah1 said:
Hi funky sam, as yet i have only shot in auto focus /landscape
not to sure about how to shoot in raw and what the advantages are
sorry for being such a novice this is a learning curve for me .
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Theres no need to apologise for being new to it - everyone was once.

RAW is a file type like jpeg

you'll find it in the file settings menu along with jpeg small, jpeg medium, and jpeg large (if you've got a nikon it might be called .nef)

basically (over simplified) what happens is that when the camera takes pictures the sensor sees the data and records it then for the jpegs its processed using the settings like white balance etc, in camera - the raw file is recording of the data the sensor originally saw.

when you shoot a Raw file you then have to process it with software called a raw converter - one probably came on the CD that came with your camera, but better ones can also be bought seperately and then save it as a file like a .jpeg or a.tiff

Its a learning curve but worth it in the end

I'd highly recomend the book "Understanding Raw photography" by Andy Rouse - although he's principally a wildlife photographer the inherent lessons are applicable to any feild (i'd also suggest his "DSLR handbook" for getting to grips with your camera.) Amazon can probably do you a discount if you buy both together.
 
Hi John and welcome to the forum:thumbs:

Nice shot for a starter post and as big soft moose says...we were all novices once - and we are all still learning.;)
 
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