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Following on from yesterday this is another photo that I took at dusk in the woods near our house.
I'm not as happy with this one but it was interesting to try a different variation on this theme.
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@Nataly: Hi Nataly!....both this image and yesterday's needed a lot of post-processing but yesterdays had a better play of light & shadow in the original 'Raw' file....all I had to do was enhance it. I'm not very good with photoshop and with this one the original file wasn't really strong enough so despite trying lots of different things including multiple layers, levels etc I couldn't really achieve anything that I was truly happy with. Someone better than me in Photoshop would have found it easy but I'm still feeling my way with it.
The forest floor on both shots was underexposed by about 5 stops in order to preserve highlight detail in the sky....I'm sure you know this but it's much more important to preserve highlight detail on digital camera files than it is the shadows. Once a highlight is 'blown' on the histogram it's usually gone for good in my experience wheres with shadows there's usually a big margin of tolerance especially in a 'Raw' file compared to 'Jpeg'
@eddy: Thanks very much Eddy!
@Margie: Thanks Margie!
@Helen: Hi Helen!...it's true that the woods are absolutely beautiful in England at the moment!
@See The Light: Thanks Mary....yesterday's photo felt really special. I was so pleased it turned out okay.
@Ana Lúcia: Thanks Ana!
@NJ & SB Photography: Thanks very much...that's very kind of you!
(My Spanish is non-existant so I had to put your words into a translation website)
@Saeed: Thanks very much Saeed!
@Observing: Thanks Mike, yesterday's photo was the one that caught the moment really.
@Michael Skorulski: Thanks Michael!
@Japanalia: Thanks Gabriella...yesterdays shot was really the one that caught the light but this was interesting to process too.
@Lorraine: Thanks Lorraine...thats very kkind of you!
@El Jefe: Thanks very much!
@amy: Thanks Amy....it was interesting to try and recover something interesting from this one but fundamentally it doesn't capture the moment of dusk like yeaterdays.
@Nataly: Thanks Nataly....I feel I'm comfortable enough with Photoshop to be able to enhance something in a photo that's already there in the original image but wholescale manipulation is beyond my ability.
@Pasci: Thanks very much for that!
NIKON D40
1/30 second
F/11.0
ISO 800
15 mm (35mm equiv.)
