[jjford43]

Nikon 7100 18mm f6.7 1/250 ISO/100

[MrB]

A pleasant winter scene, JJ.

It appears to have been a bright sunny day, so is the image perhaps rather dark and rather blue?

   

Cheers.
Philip

[Jocko]

Nice image but the clouds are a little blown out at the LH side. They just need a little more detail there. Plus Philips correction as well.

   

[Jocko]

Now it is posted on site it is obvious I have overdone the Warmth!

[EdMak]

All colour settings are Photoshop Auto, no input from me. I did sharpen it.
The author should know which is accurate, Monitor dependent. Ed.

[Jocko]

My good lady has just asked, "Where was it taken?".

[jjford43]

My good lady has just asked, "Where was it taken?".

It was taken about 70miles east of Fresno Ca

[jjford43]

A pleasant winter scene, JJ.

It appears to have been a bright sunny day, so is the image perhaps rather dark and rather blue?



Cheers.
Philip

Thanks for the info I'm new to photoshop and light room the sky is washed out some in the original and I tried to darken the blue a little guess I did a little too much

[jjford43]

All colour settings are Photoshop Auto, no input from me. I did sharpen it.
The author should know which is accurate, Monitor dependent. Ed.

Thanks for the reply

[Jocko]

Thanks for the info I'm new to photoshop and light room the sky is washed out some in the original


Do you shoot in raw?

[jjford43]

Thanks for the info I'm new to photoshop and light room the sky is washed out some in the original


Do you shoot in raw?

Yes I do

[Jocko]

If you go back to the raw original you should be able to recover sky data by reducing the Exposure slider.

[EdMak]

Another possible tack. The exposure is global, when the sky is as you wish, then the rest will appear underexposed probably. There is an Eyedropper in Camera Raw, for White Balance, can be effective. Don't know Lightroom, but P/S has a Shadow/Highlight control, ideal for a situation like yours. Ed.

[Jocko]

I would take the Exposure down, then the Shadows up to correct for the under exposure. We are not talking a huge amount of Exposure reduction to recover the burnt out clouds.

[EdMak]

Would really need to see the original, rather than edited version, which slider are you referring to. Ta Ed.

[jjford43]

here is the original and one that I reworked

[attachment=5367][attachment=5368]

[jjford43]

    here is the one I reworked

[jjford43]

Would really need to see the original, rather than edited version, which slider are you referring to. Ta Ed.

I have posted the original and one that I reworked

[Jocko]

here is the one I reworked

Great photo. Much better sky. I love snow but it is so seldom we get any here.

[EdMak]

suits me, good edit, and, your happy, Ed.

[jjford43]

Thanks for all the comments and suggestions I really appreciate the input as I really need it. I think I need to work a little harder at getting better exposure when I take the photo.

[Jocko]

I purchased a particularly good book recently, on exposure (The Betterphoto Guide to Exposure), and found it a very informative read. Got it here.

[MrB]

Thanks for all the comments and suggestions I really appreciate the input as I really need it. I think I need to work a little harder at getting better exposure when I take the photo.

If you don't mind doing some processing on your captured images (whether Raw or JPEG), start from the basic general principle - keeping the ISO as low as possible, get as much light into the camera as possible, without blowing highlight areas. The really helpful camera tool is the histogram - the graph should fall to zero (the bottom line) when it reaches the right-hand-side but not before; if it is bunched-up there, then the image is over-exposed.

Cheers.
Philip