Edit advice please....?

Ysarex · Jan 29, 2012

Well, you've got yourself a classic problem: the classic waterfall in the shade with the bright sun shining on the scene above the waterfall. Your waterfall is blue because open shade is blue. You really need to white balance that waterfall. You had the camera set to auto white balance. Auto white balance doesn't work, so you've got to get the blue out manually.

Because the sun was shining up above the waterfall, your sky is utterly blown out -- dynamic range was extreme. In lieu of an HDR that you didn't do you could have tried a 14 bit RAW capture, but too late now -- so you do have the option to drop in a fake sky which wouldn't get past the Pros here, but it would get past everyone else.

Joe

jansen · Jan 30, 2012

Ysarex said:
Well, you've got yourself a classic problem: the classic waterfall in the shade with the bright sun shining on the scene above the waterfall. Your waterfall is blue because open shade is blue. You really need to white balance that waterfall. You had the camera set to auto white balance. Auto white balance doesn't work, so you've got to get the blue out manually.

Because the sun was shining up above the waterfall, your sky is utterly blown out -- dynamic range was extreme. In lieu of an HDR that you didn't do you could have tried a 14 bit RAW capture, but too late now -- so you do have the option to drop in a fake sky which wouldn't get past the Pros here, but it would get past everyone else.

Joe

Thanks got some blue out but not sure how to do a drop in sky, Any better?

EchoingWhisper · Jan 30, 2012

Looks better!

KenC · Jan 30, 2012

You can crop a little on the top to minimize the amount of sky you have to deal with, then select the sky carefully and darken just a bit while making it more blue. Do this on adjustment layers or a duplicate layer of course. Darkening the brightly lit rock above the fall on the right would help also.

Frequency · Jan 30, 2012

Beautiful image... i feel a decimal inclination towards right

Regards

DiskoJoe · Jan 30, 2012

I think your going to need to send me a plane ticket so I can come and meet you at this location to better evaluate exactly how this photo could be more true to the scene.

Ysarex · Jan 30, 2012

jansen said:
Ysarex said:

Well, you've got yourself a classic problem: the classic waterfall in the shade with the bright sun shining on the scene above the waterfall. Your waterfall is blue because open shade is blue. You really need to white balance that waterfall. You had the camera set to auto white balance. Auto white balance doesn't work, so you've got to get the blue out manually.

Because the sun was shining up above the waterfall, your sky is utterly blown out -- dynamic range was extreme. In lieu of an HDR that you didn't do you could have tried a 14 bit RAW capture, but too late now -- so you do have the option to drop in a fake sky which wouldn't get past the Pros here, but it would get past everyone else.

Joe

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Thanks got some blue out but not sure how to do a drop in sky, Any better?

A lot better. You could fill the burned-out sky with a little blue. Here's an example using Photoshop but the same works in other software -- GIMP for example is the same.

Blue sky in the sRGB color space has a Hue value of 211. Set a foreground and background of that Hue with the foreground darker and more saturated. The sky is typically a gradient from darker and more saturated at the zenith to lighter and less saturated at the horizon. A gradient tool should let you place a gradient on a separate layer above the photo. Set the blend mode to Multiply. Use a selection of the white sky from the photo to create a layer mask and blur/blend the mask edge -- fake sky.

Joe