Landscape frome earlier CC

Blake.Oney · Oct 15, 2010

I don't do much landscape photography, and I actually forgot completely about this shot. I was waiting on a client to show up for a maternity shoot at the location and I walked around a bend and straight ahead this scene was just opened up like this. What do you guys think?

By the way, I would usually crop the top down here, but for now I decided to leave it because the clouds were so dynamic.

mwcfarms · Oct 15, 2010

I think the bottom portion is too dark. Did you expose for the sky? I think if you could maybe dodge the bottom portion to show the path way that leads to the tree and clouds would be nicer.

Blake.Oney · Oct 15, 2010

I honestly don't remember how I exposed it. When I said earlier, I meant earlier this year during the summer. I'm pretty sure I was just kind of running through the other shots from the day and did a quick edit on it and pretty much forgot about it after that haha.

syphlix · Oct 15, 2010

i agree the foreground is way underexposed... could prob have bumped the exposure up a little without losing relevant detail in the clouds...

GooniesNeverSayDie11 · Oct 15, 2010

Really nice sky, but I agree about the bottom. You were probably just too enthralled with that sky. Here is a literally 2 second edit..ok maybe 5-10 seconds haha. Also, are you aware that you are saving in AdobeRGB?

oqzvhh by GooniesNeverSayDie11, on Flickr

dcmoody23 · Oct 15, 2010

Wait what's wrong with AdobeRGB? Thats what I'm saving in ...

DirtyDFeckers · Oct 16, 2010

I like the composition of the shot, but just as stated above, the foreground is way underexposed.

GooniesNeverSayDie11 · Oct 16, 2010

Nothing is wrong with it. Unless you are printing at home on Inkjet, chances are, you will need to be in sRGB. The main reason why I mentioned it is because it might be causing problems when uploading online if you often see pics not displaying right.

mwcfarms · Oct 16, 2010

Yup thats what happened with my blog. I didn't realize until BigMike did an edit for me that I was saving in ProPhoto profile and it was making them way darker on the blog and other places uploaded.