You could go old school and use a Cokin graduated filter - sometimes
it's better to get the image right in the camera than expect to be
able to fix everything in PS. We've all tended to get lazy that way.
I went and dug mine out the other day and had some fun.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 05/09/2007, at 9:25 PM, Chris Crawford wrote:
> The brightness range was
> incredible though, I think the brightest sky areas fell about zone
> 14! The
> film captured a lot more detail in highlights that, as you showed,
> can be
> brought out with more extensive photoshop work. The problem is the
> halos,
> which I am unable to get rid of totally no matter how I do the
> selection. I
> hate seeing such halos, they scream "PHOTOSHOPPED" every time I see
> them on
> a print, and here in santa fe I see a lot of bad prints like that
> offered
> for sale by people who push things too far for dramatic effect. I
> tend to
> get them on the horizon if I darken skies too much. And the skies were
> darkened a lot already.
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