{"id":336,"date":"2009-05-04T17:24:16","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T17:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zogspat.tk\/blog\/?p=336"},"modified":"2009-05-04T18:22:22","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T18:22:22","slug":"darkening-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/?p=336","title":{"rendered":"Darkening the Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had a trip to London over the bank holiday weekend, and I’ve been using some of the simpler methods available in PhotoShop [Elements] to make the images a little more punchy. Previously I’d been using layers to adjust the contrast in a specific area of the picture, but I found an online tutorial which uses a much simpler approach: select, feather and then use CMD [Mac] or CTRL [PC] and ‘L’ to bring up the levels editor. The results are quite dramatic. The first image is straight out of the camera:<\/p>\n

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1\/125sec at f14, ISO 100 at 24mm<\/p><\/div>\n

The next is the same shot but with the levels adjustment:<\/p>\n

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1\/125sec at f14, ISO 100 at 24mm<\/p><\/div>\n

I’ve actually used three of separate selections: before I worked on the sky I lightened the parliament building, with quite a low feather setting. Then I did two separate selections on the sky: the first was everything, which I darkened. At this stage it looked a lot better, but the lower half, where the clouds are quite packed, was still a little light, so I pushed this a bit more with a final selection.<\/p>\n

I’ve taken a couple of bites to get this as it appears in the second shot. The first attempt was creating a halo around the building, where I was doing the lightening with too high a feathering. The top of the futhest tower of the parliament building is caught in the crossfire of the darkening, but I think the overall result is quite pleasing. There’s not really enough happening, especially in the foreground, to make it a terribly interesting shot, but the takeaway is that I’m going to add this to the list of techniques I’ll routinely apply to my outdoor shots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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