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Critique By:
Fadel J (K:13974)
6/13/2005 2:52:40 AM
Hey Peter, first of all thank you very much for all your lovely comments! this is a very beautiful image indeed, and a very nice long exposure idea. Regarding adding drama to the image, I'm not really sure if BW would work because of the amount of lights in the scene, also the sky is blown out in the distance (because of the long exposure) so I guess the best thing to do to it in this case is to replace it 
But in general the main idea to make a sky look interesting is to make sure it is not over-exposed when shooting it (even if you have to take multiple exposures one for the sky and one for the foreground), and then darken it in post processing (in PS elements you can use Levels and move the middle slider little to the right, and create a mask to avoid darkening the foreground), this will bring out the cloud details which will make it look good. Also if there are heavy clouds, then darken using the same technique above and also move the right-most slider little to the left, this will add contrast and create a dramatic feel to it.
Also check Carsten Ranke's portfolio, he has a set of fantastic skies and he usually describes the used technique in the about. And later I will give you some links that might be useful as well. Beautiful work!
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| Photo By: P R
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Critique By:
Fadel J (K:13974)
11/18/2004 4:20:00 AM
This is wonderful Amna, I like how you included much of the sky! I think the haze looks fine in this image, but why do you think it is the lens that is causing the haze?
Anyway, here's my attempt to get rid of it with PS, I applied a "solid color" adjustment layer with color set to full white and blending mode set to "soft light", and masked out the land from the effect. I also masked out the clouds in the top with a brush using a medium grey color.
As for color temprature, you can shoot in raw and then use the utility that ships with your 300D to adjust the color temprature.
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| Photo By: Amna Al Shamsi
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