Sunset after a Thundershower

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Image Title: Sunset after a Thundershower

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By: Carsten Ranke
Copyright ©2005

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Photographer	Carsten Ranke {Karma:14476}
Project	#42 Moody Landscape	Camera Model	Canon 300D
Categories	Landscape Photoart	Film Format
Portfolio	Landscape	Lens	Canon 17-40 mm USM L
Uploaded	1/15/2005	Film / Memory Type	IBM 1GB Microdrive
		ISO / Film Speed	0
Views	6806	Shutter
Favorites	49	Aperture	f/
Critiques	142	Rating	6.53 / 58 Ratings
Location	City - Mariazell State - Country - Germany
About	After a thundershower I was attracted by the bright water drops on the grain against the light and the raising mist from the warm meadows. For good DOF (handheld) and a super wide effect I made a panorama shot of three landscape images stitched vertically; exposure from foreground to sky between 1/30, f:4 and 1/1600, f:4 (ISO 100). Each stitched image is a composite of two to three differently developed 16 bit/channel RAW files (CaptureOne DRebel ed.) because of wide dynamic range to get optimal tonality. After stitching some adjustment of color contrast with PS for the grain field (vivid light blending layer) and for the sky (multiply blending layer).

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Chaterine Harton {K:4065} 4/30/2008

amazing....really!

Mitra Nademi-Nassari {K:28234} 4/29/2008

Beautiful!

oscar valle {K:144} 4/29/2008

Increibles los efectos de PS..muy buen trabajo!!!

Emilia Garbera - Herghelegiu {K:1397} 2/6/2008

Excellent capture,scenery.Beautiful colours!
Regards.
Emilia

Carsten Ranke {K:14476} 2/16/2007

Frank, nice to see you ;-)

Andrzej Pradzynski {K:22541} 2/10/2007

Excellent job here, fantastic lights, colors and tonal balance. And anyway its a great PS tutorial for free. Cheers, NJ

Kerry Nobbs {K:2800} 2/10/2007

Wow...Powerful beautiful deep shot. Love the split.

Frank Millard {K:-105} 2/10/2007

Carsten is the man!!

Cathy Carroll {K:28144} 2/10/2007

Simply magic! Thankyou for all the detail you have written. CC

Annemette Rosenborg Eriksen {K:55244} 7/29/2006

An amazing surreal landscape! Thanks for telling us how you did it.
Best wishes,
Annemette

Felipe Espinosa {K:357} 7/29/2006

Beautiful!

Gabriella Carta {K:22879} 7/29/2006

wowwwwwwww.. fantastic!! great work, my compliments!!

D A {K:9} 2/11/2006

I love the colors, and wonderful job on blending the images together. The scene is simply beautiful.

Felix Wong {K:18} 1/23/2006

wow, i'm mean just wow
great image there

superb job!

charles king

{K:136} 1/17/2006

very beautiful work..i am inspired by this type of work. someday i hope to be able to come close to doing such wonderful work

Weston Dru {K:3243} 1/2/2006

Hi Her Carsten!
To my opinion this is most beautful game of light and colors on this site.
You have done amazing post "production".
Respect and happy new year!

Aivar Mikko {K:573} 12/3/2005

Excellent landscape. Light in sky is just fantastic.

Ms. Mel Brackstone {K:5285} 11/5/2005

Outstanding landscape.

Eyüp Serdar öztürk {K:57} 9/22/2005

Great looking view with fantastic colours. Best views of nature always flows with its chaos. I love before and after storm images. Your shot is a wonderful one.

Igor Sivjakov {K:4671} 9/13/2005

Very beautiful Carsten!
Pure 7/7
Congrets on EC!
All the best!
Cheers,
Igor

Jose Vladimir {K:602} 9/10/2005

Unusual looks, very nice work.
Thanks for share with us.

Keep this good work

Guido Tweepenninckx {K:20076} 9/10/2005

wow,fantastic shot

paul smith {K:12} 9/10/2005

Fantastic sky love the image well done

Alejandro Gómez {K:4270} 9/10/2005

Incredible photo. Colurs, shadows, contrast, definition, DOF, perspective, ... all excellent.

Congrats!

Ale.

Linda Imagefree {K:72276} 9/10/2005

Congratulations for making the front page Carsten, this is awesome, I can see why you got Editors Choice for this, it's incredible...Linda

a. M. {K:9020} 9/10/2005

amazing colors...great scenery very dramatic.
Ant

Chris Spracklen {K:32552} 9/10/2005

Just great to see a couple of your images on the home page, Carsten!
Congratulations on the 'featured critique' award ~ I ALWAYS appreciate your kind and perceptive comments.
Best regards, Chris

patrizio napolitano

{K:13119} 9/10/2005

compliments for your recognition
compliments for your beautiful photo
patrizio

Jeanette Hägglund {K:59855} 9/9/2005

Amazing beauty and magic light! So well deserving an EC award!!!!

Jeanette

ricardo longhi-frantz {K:9628} 8/20/2005

just coming to see again this great pic! this time the most intersting was to have a full lesson of PS in your many replies!!! very instructive, great new ideas for me! thanks a lot!!!!!!!

Jim Budrakey

{K:24393} 8/20/2005

Words fail me. What... an incredible picture. It looks like you skill with PS is only exceeded by your skill with the camera.

Congratulations on the Editors Choice and the Comment of the day - you deserve them.

Hany El Gamal {K:7} 8/19/2005

my words can not express this beauty. Very stunning picture. well done

Moheb Samaan {K:288} 8/19/2005

amazing shoot, light like magic, i like it.
regards
moheb

Flavio Ortolan {K:907} 8/19/2005

Worderful. The alteration in colors that you did, gived a new dramatic dimension to the picture.

Lukasz Kuczkowski {K:14687} 8/19/2005

pure magic!

Lori Stitt

{K:75282} 8/19/2005

Many congrats on your recognition
on this fine art piece!

I had already rated this one a 7, but just had to say congrats!
Lori :)

Gustav Miller {K:309} 8/19/2005

Congratulations on editor's chioce. Well deserved.
Great PhotoART. Admirable achievement.
Gustav

mystic ivanov {K:51} 8/19/2005

well done !

Malik Anas {K:274} 8/19/2005

Wow!!! This is a magical moment captured with a professional eye... the blending modes you made are a must to have this well presented effect.Well done.

Malik Anas {K:274} 8/19/2005

Wow!!! This is a magical moment captured with professional eye... the blending modes you made are a must to have this well presented effect.Well done.

Le Bich

{K:973} 8/19/2005

Such a great moment ! thanks for your deteils too ! A great asmostphere your photo bring to my feeling !
Well deserved for Editor Choice Award

Maryam Ashoori {K:2186} 8/19/2005

WoW! It's really dreamland!!

Mohamed Banna {K:34237} 8/10/2005

perfection in a photo

congratulations

ricardo longhi-frantz {K:9628} 8/10/2005

superb painting with light!

Bart Aldrich {K:7614} 8/9/2005

Wow! Dynamite image!

.. .. {K:302} 8/7/2005

very impressive landscape shot and mood, excellent work with PS

KEVIN TEMPLE

{K:8657} 7/25/2005

your my kind of photographer (stunning photos well done my friend

Kimmy Magino {K:2457} 7/16/2005

Gold Medal for you!!!

Gerhard F {K:2820} 6/30/2005

Carsten Nørgaard {K:581} 6/30/2005

The Best, just perfect

Lori Stitt

{K:75282} 6/20/2005

WOW, Carsten,
This is one OUTSTANDING photograph.
I'm glad you put your in depth explaination,
it's great to know how you did this.

Very nicely done,
Lori ;)

Hakan AKIRMAK

{K:15913} 6/19/2005

Absolutely excellent work Carsten! Congratulations!

g Difarnecio {K:542} 6/19/2005

this is absolutely fantastic. Very nicely done.

Dan TDFoto

{K:8618} 6/19/2005

I am Jealous 100% congrats...did you hear that? My jaw just hit the floor...amazing image.

franchini marco {K:-490} 6/19/2005

Very good job. It's a magnificient picture.My compliments.

Quix Photography {K:20204} 6/19/2005

WOW... that sky is amazing! Excellent capture! Congrats on the Editors Choice... well deserved.

Sue xx

N.R. Miller

{K:946} 6/19/2005

Some of the most beautiful light and color I've ever seen! Excellent job!

Ahmet Baki Kocaballi {K:13618} 6/19/2005

fantastic work!!!
impressive ps work
congrats

Girish Chonkar {K:6903} 4/15/2005

Beautiful & great shot, Wonderful colors.

Herianus Madjid {K:1488} 4/5/2005

amazing picture...

patrizio napolitano

{K:13119} 3/30/2005

grandissima atmosfera complimenti
patrizio

patrizio napolitano

{K:13119} 3/25/2005

now this photo is in mine prefer.
stupendous
patrizio

Michael Schuier {K:4804} 3/21/2005

absolutly beautiful. the rays are georgious and so is the field. Congrats
Michael

sandhi mishra {K:35} 3/20/2005

didnt know things like that existed on camera..always thought it ws canvas..thank u for proving me wrong.. need not to say "awesome picture"

Carsten Ranke {K:14476} 3/19/2005

Thilo, thank you for stopping by. Blush ! Nice that you place an anaesthesia before touching my sore spot ;-) After my PS learning curve, I was infected with the "postcarditis virus", a dangerous disease that leads to heavy overuse of PS and recurrent kitch attacks. Dont know where I got the virus, maybe from some bad boys on another photo site (not UF, of course). Joking aside, I know what you mean ! Heavy PS use is quite normal when you have new skills and want to try them out. The next step is wise dosage of the magic potion, that`s what I really promise ;-)

Carsten Ranke {K:14476} 3/19/2005

Alan, I use PS CS - maybe that vivid light blending is a new feature of PS CS.
Another feature of PS CS is 48bit color mode, a great advantage to the earlier versions. To come close to the tonal quality of film, it is a good idea to shoot in RAW, and work on 16bit/channel TIF only

mohammed al turki {K:2} 3/19/2005

really really beautiful
i like it

patrizio napolitano

{K:13119} 3/19/2005

bravissimo,hai fotografato un paesaggio biblico
patrizio

Alan Baker {K:200} 3/19/2005

I'm amazed! I've used all the PS techniques that you mentioned but felt that the improvements that you made on your picture went well beyond that. I can find "Hard Light", "Soft Light", "Multiply" etc (in place of "Normal") but I have not found the "Vivid Light" mode that you and others have mentioned - neither in Photoshop 6 or Photoshop Elements.

Carsten Ranke {K:14476} 3/19/2005

Alan, thank you for stopping by ! I am no PS expert at all, but after a long learning curve I grasped the layers function, at last. A short step by step description of my favorite layers technique:
1. Show the Layers toolbox: Window > Layers (or F7)
2. Right-Click there on "Layer1" resp. "Background Layer" > Duplicate Layer. Or simply click-draw it on the "new layer" button below. Assign a meaningful name, e.g. "light"
3. Set the light blending mode for the layer: change from "normal" to "vivid light", for example. Good for somewhat flat looking tones. Or "multiply" mode, great for superb sky colors. Oops, looks awful... Now play with the opacity slider, check if this blending mode is effective, for example at 20-30% opacity (look only at regions of interest, where you want to place the effect, ignore the ugly side effects elsewhere, you can mask them away, see below). Try other light contrast algorithms, as "multiply", "soft light" or "hard light", they might be more effective. Then set opacity to 100% again for masking.
4. Now: Layer > Add Layer Mask > Hide All. The Layer Mask Thumbnail in the Layers Toolbox is all black, thus all pixels of the top layer are hidden. The basal layer (Layer1 or Background Layer) is visible again.
5. Now comes the fun: To put the desired effect on certain parts of the image, you can paint now with the white brush on the black layer mask to unmask these regions selectively. But you can chose what you want, e.g. the Brush Tool (Hardness about 10-20% works best, Master Diameter depends on image. For landscapes, sky/ ground transition the Gradient Tool is perfect, with the Gradient Picker set to white/ trasnsparent. ok, here you would brush with white on the pistil (first, click on the black layer gradient thumbnail to select it), opacity and flow about 30% (sometimes even lower), to get smooth transitions. You see the light effect coming through, stop when enough.
6. If overdone, you can toggle foreground color to black and paint over with black to erase unwanted effects or soften the effect.
7. At last, you can play with opacity again to fine-tune the effect. Often, 20 to 50% is enough.
8. When satisfied, Layer > Flatten image (or Merge Down, in case of several layers, for selective application of a mask).
Uff. Thats all. A quite universal tool, you can apply this technique also for selective sharpening and so on. Have fun !

Regards, Carsten

Thilo Bayer {K:50358} 3/17/2005

Hi Carsten,

I don't see a lot of potential for improving your impressive PS skills ;-)

I mean: wow. this one rocks. you're the pro.

While browsing through your portfolio, I really appreciate your abouts and the detailed specs of your work. perhaps someday, I will try to get the point ;-)

perhaps one mild concern: some images are so full of PS work that they loose part of their natural look. It would be just a pity as you have such enormous landscape in front of the house. the subjects itself are so impressive... hope you know what I mean. -)

Ich ziehe jedenfalls meinen Hut vor so viel genialen Bildern in so kurzer Zeit... das war wohl der stärkste auftritt eines UF-Neulings ever ;-)

best wishes and hope fully we stay in contact,

thilo

Alan Baker {K:200} 3/16/2005

We have all been stunned by the finished result - wunderbar! By submitting the 'before' picture you have clearly shown that a mediocre picture can be turned into a work of true art.
I feel that you could make a lot of people very happy by taking them through the steps of creating and merging layers with the menu and tool options that you used. We could then apply some of these ideas to our own photos.

photographie works {K:289} 3/16/2005

You are making me see new possibilities to work on some of my pictures with PS. Thanks for posting such a beautiful photograph and many thanks for the original version too, this is not something that everyone does. Great work !

Khaled Al Harbi {K:-163} 3/15/2005

really fantastic and magic landscape

xxxIlonaxxxx xxxxKrijgsmanxxxx {K:10405} 3/14/2005

such a gorgeous images.....wonderful mood...love it

Inger-Lise Sundberg {K:1048} 3/14/2005

Really good image,and beautiful light. Fantastic sky. Good working.

Regards Inger-Lise

E l e n. K. {K:152} 3/14/2005

Perfect photo. Very beautiful.

Roberto Arcari Farinetti

{K:209486} 3/14/2005

re-congrats carsten..
new main page deserved it!
sse yu later
roby

Pumpkin HD {K:1033} 3/14/2005

WAAW... Superb shot. 7/7

Girish Menon {K:1384} 3/14/2005

That's an amazing way of doing it. Well executed. Bravo, G.

Erik Shea {K:1600} 3/14/2005

Incredible shot, I would love to just see a scene like that and you captured it and put all the work into stitching them together perfectly.

no longer a member

{K:10557} 3/8/2005

An award, very well deserved! Congratulations!

Mike

Robert Lloyd {K:9943} 3/7/2005

amazing shot i can even see faces in the clouds wow looking at the light amazing

Cary Shaffer {K:9269} 2/27/2005

Excellent and well thought out work Carsten congrats on the EC, very beautiful scene! Cary

Heidi Dehncke-Fisher {K:504} 2/20/2005

Amazing...

tugbay aktas {K:331} 2/20/2005

Excellent,Excellent,Excellent

jasmine . {K:626} 2/19/2005

excellent capture of lighting.

BahamianNovice {K:98} 2/12/2005

Surely this is a painting of an artist's imagination! To have captured such an image is in itself fulfilling, to be able to re-live it over and over and over is stimulating. Love the layers of colors and moment of light over the skies. Breath-taking!

Wang Zhibo {K:139} 2/11/2005

I like this color!

Peter Godden {K:745} 2/5/2005

This is a belated congrats on your EC for this magnificent shot. Your knowledge and technique is superb. Thanks again for sharing and being so generous.
Regards
Peter

Kelly Anbach {K:4375} 2/5/2005

Fantastic image. I wish I had more time to learn RAW. I own the same camera.
keep up the terrific work!
Kelly

Rita Boyko {K:364} 2/3/2005

So GREAT view! And excellent professional photo!
Congrats.

Fadel J {K:13974} 1/29/2005

Amazing once again Carsten, congratulations on the very well deserved award!

John Loreaux {K:86210} 1/29/2005

GORGEOUS!!!
Super effort and excellent results Carsten!
My best,..............John

Elsje Fiederelsje {K:6320} 1/28/2005

Thanx Carsten!!!

This one is also GREAT!!!
And ofcourse you got an award for it cause it's really beautiful!!!

Greetz Elly :-)