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Phal said:

pic_-5 by Buzz_Lightweight, on Flickr

Woulda been awesome with something more going on in the sky! HDR Or something if necessary. More colour or less exposed so there's still some blue showing. I'm quite often a fan of leaving big areas open to rather plain colours but there isn't a whole lot of colour there :P
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Fair point, believe it or not it is an HDR! I will see about the sky when I get back :)

**edit** i cant bring anything more back, i was shooting directly into the sun.
 
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I decided to have a quick look (hope you don't mind!) and there seems to be something there if you move enough slide bars around lol :D Whether or not it works it looks better or not is another matter!

Two separate graduated filters in Lightroom with exposure down half each and highlights dragged down + a little contrast added and quite a lot of saturation got this from the jpeg. I also had to adjust the bottom a little after to even out the tones/brightness

http://sdrv.ms/16AG5us

Bit of a different feel I guess as its a bit darker :/
 
By all means have a play im alway excepting of C+C but i dont know how your seeing it? on my monitor (dell U2713HM) there is haloing all over the horizon and there is a really bad saturation bleed up the left and right hand side of the sky.

Granted i can make the sun out a little but personally i wouldn't be happy with it.

I think a crop maybe in order?
 
I'd leave it as it is rather than start cropping. Without the sky it'll look odd imo.

Out of interest, how many shots went into the HDR? 3 or 5 or more? The saturation bleed is more due to the vignetting. You can probably do more with the original RAW file if you want a more even sky. For me though, shooting into the sun has these kinds of problems. The haloing around the trees is more pronounced here because more detail is visible with the lowered exposure and higher contrast.

I wonder what this shot would have looked like with a real graduated filter or just a reasonably strong ND filter across the sky?

I need to find some filters to try out but since I just ordered a 70d it might have to wait lol
 
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The 6d is capable of seven brackets which is what this was, I chose to HDR this as I was shooting into the sun but in hindsight I wish I had done it a little different, maybe bracketed for one stop rather than half a stop etc

I have got plans to by a set of lee filters but I'm saving for a holiday first ;)

I hope you enjoy your 70D :)
 
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The 6d is capable of seven brackets which is what this was, I chose to HDR this as I was shooting into the sun but in hindsight I wish I had done it a little different, maybe bracketed for one stop rather than half a stop etc

I have got plans to by a set of lee filters but I'm saving for a holiday first ;)

I hope you enjoy your 70D :)
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Yeah, my 650d only does 3 shot brackets whereas the 70d does 5 so that should help a little too.

Your shot got me thinking though, I think I'll try taking the usual 3 shots but then taking one much more under exposed shot too just to see what can be done with it.
 
Radial filter?

First glance I thought it was a woman going on stage. Closer inspection proves it's probably just the Mrs. looking at her phone in the kitchen XD

I quite like the processing, it works well, especially with her black clothing. But, face would have been better.

kd
 
It is the gf in a friends house at a party, she turned away when I tried to photograph her :) I liked the shot anyway, she was stood under a spotlight.

You'll be pleased to know I left the clarity slider alone! Just slight tones edit, bit of contrast and removed a bit of saturation. I have a lot of other images from the party that I'm quite happy with the same processing on, keeping things simple and letting the 35L do the rest. My main aim was to practice candid shots of people in different lighting for my first wedding next month...although obviously I won't use shots of peoples backs for that :)
 
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42zx said:
It is the gf in a friends house at a party, she turned away when I tried to photograph her :) I liked the shot anyway, she was stood under a spotlight.

You'll be pleased to know I left the clarity slider alone! Just slight tones edit, bit of contrast and removed a bit of saturation. I have a lot of other images from the party that I'm quite happy with the same processing on, keeping things simple and letting the 35L do the rest. My main aim was to practice candid shots of people in different lighting for my first wedding next month...although obviously I won't use shots of peoples backs for that :)
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Ah, fair enough. I didn't think you'd be using clarity for this :p Well, that said, sometimes it's not bad for portraits. I tend to fiddle a bit with it on portraits :)

Good shot though, and good that you're getting to have some fun with the 35L :D Candid shots are always so much fun, really some of my more preferred shots really :)

kd
 
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