Took this photo whilst on the Great Ocean Road in Australia. If your ever here, you've gotta go... best driving :) Iniitally I planned to do a HDR, but i didn't like the way it looked, so I decided to give sky editing a go. basically masked out sky, and worked it with gradients, then did the usual stuff, then added a little yellow tinge for sunset look.
Editing
- noise ninja
- clone out fence and signs
- little dodge on clouds
- gradient overlay with mask so only sky affected
- levels with oval marquee to give vignetting
- curves, selective colour
- solid colour with selective application to add yellow tinge
- NN again
- selectively sharpened building
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Impressive - exposure is spot on, though these days perhaps that's less impressive than it once was. Suspicion of some heavy-handed darkening of sky, but overall good use of weirdness of lens in producing this image.
There's something about lighthouses that are so beautiful and dramatic. This is a nice angle to see of one. It would make a great perspective photo too.
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