Looming
Posted June 10th, 2008 by Luke | 2,224 viewsWe had really nice lighting yesterday with the sunlight behind us, going into the darker, stormy weather. I always love that kind of light. Reminds me of Jeffrey Smart’s paintings.
Obviously, the sky wasn’t quite as dramatic as in the photos, but it was a dark sky. The sky usually looks better when it’s darker in photos. That’s why graduated filters were made.
If you don’t have one of those, the easiest way to do that is to use a black-to-transparent linear gradient, set to Soft Light blend mode. In these photos, I’ve also added a bit of a HDR effect using the Shadows/Highlights tool and finished it off with some super-sharpening using Highpass with a Radius of 50px (then set that to Hard Light blend mode and removing the colour). Tutorial for that coming tomorrow.
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