What would you do in PP to this?

zbo2408 · Nov 30, 2011

I have aperture 3 and this photo is RAW - What should I do to it to make it look its best?

Secondly C&C please? :-D

Thanks

IMG_8275 by z_man, on Flickr

DiskoJoe · Nov 30, 2011

Crop out the branches on the right and its fine.

photo guy · Nov 30, 2011

Crop out the branches and it would work

KmH · Nov 30, 2011

zbo2408 said:

I used CS5 and Content Aware fill to dispose of the branches. Then I adjusted the mid-tone contrast. Of course what you have on Flickr is a JPEG, not the Raw file so this was a JPEG edit. Because the photo is mostly underexposed, any editing will make the image noise more visible.

zbo2408 · Dec 3, 2011

As you say it's underexposed. How could I have kept the sky that color with out underexposing it?

Vtec44 · Dec 3, 2011

zbo2408 said:
As you say it's underexposed. How could I have kept the sky that color with out underexposing it?

GND filter.

KmH · Dec 3, 2011

Or use the other tried and true landscape shot procedure, and make 2 exposures. One exposed for the sky and one exposed for the foreground, them blend the 2 post process.