Please help on this image

[malechi]

I like this picture. I worked on it in Lightroom and Photoshop CS and it's still not where I want it to be. I'm providing the before (from the camera) and after of what I've done. What would you do?

Nikon D80
1.3 sec at f/20, ISO 100
12mm (12-24mm f/4.0)

[fante]

I don't know exactly what you're looking for, but I gave it a try

Blah, turns up darker here than in Photoshop, any suggestions?

[malechi]

Yeah, that's not too good there. Thanks for helping though.

[tirediron]

It's going to be tough to get this image where you want it to be. I'd stick with just a level's curves adjusment. This is a perfect example of where the use of a G-ND would have saved the day. You could also have done a couple of more exposures at varying shutter speeds to assemble an HDR. Is a re-shoot possible? It's a nice image.

[malechi]

Well I can add a GND in Lightroom.

[Travis]

I like this picture. I worked on it in Lightroom and Photoshop CS and it's still not where I want it to be. I'm providing the before (from the camera) and after of what I've done. What would you do?

Nikon D80
1.3 sec at f/20, ISO 100
12mm (12-24mm f/4.0)

I think your edit works.... IMO I'd ease back on the vignette, retain and add a touch of saturation to the original sky, and dodge the frontal portions of the rocks in the foreground...

nice shot though...

[malechi]

I worked a lot on the rocks already. I'll burn in the sky though.

[svantland]

I took a stab at it, but looking at mine compared to yours, I think I just burned in the sky a bit more than you had. It is an excellent image though. I really enjoy these challenges to see what different approaches to post processing can do for an image.

[malechi]

Yeah, I went ahead and added a gradient ND filter in Lightroom 2 to the image and this is what I got.

Not bad but something is still missing in the image to me. It's good, but not great.

[tomorrowstreasures]

Yeah, I went ahead and added a gradient ND filter in Lightroom 2 to the image and this is what I got.

Not bad but something is still missing in the image to me. It's good, but not great.

Idea - there is a strong central line in the image... crop in so that the is about at the 1/3rd mark from the viewer's left and the black band at the bottom to see if that helps.