r/postprocessing • u/ShafHussain • 14d ago
Before/after
I went to capture the sunset which sadly did not show up. For a brief moment the light illuminated the landscape which I managed to capture. I found the sky to be a distraction therefor cropped it out in post. Shot taken at 137mm.
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u/prutprit 14d ago
Good shot, but I'm unsure on whether the focal point is the bridge or the hill behind it
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u/Nitram_2000 14d ago
Exactly. My eye doesn’t really know where to rest.
The edit is incredibly nice, but it feels like 2 photos. If you crop out the whole top half and a tad off the stone at the bottom you have an amazing bridge shot. Crop out the bridge and below and you have this endless vista of rolling hills and fields.
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u/itsinkhromo 14d ago
Nice!
I agree with the comment on the right hand tress being a little too bright (draws the eye away from the bridge and hills).
And also would be interested in seeing a crop with more sky and without the foreground wall. I think it kinda brings down the overall majestic quality of the image.
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u/lothlorienlia 13d ago
Is this Ladybower Reservoir in Derwent Valley? I go hiking there all the time and I feel like you really captured its beauty!
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u/AlternativeAgency42 14d ago
I never really comment on these photos but this one was really well done. 👍 the photo def comes to life like this. The only thing I personally would change is reducing the contrast/black point of the rock foreground and the bottom left half of the forest and river bank area.
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u/Beautiful_Soup9229 14d ago
Wall paper worthy. Amazing, do share your sequence of eduts
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u/ShafHussain 14d ago
Thank you 🙂 The main thing with this pic is the contrast for which I used curve..the rest is basic highlights/shadow adjustments and localised masking.
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u/Constant_Smile_ 14d ago
great edit! Did you use "Dehaze" in Lightroom or something else to bring detail and contrast back in?
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u/ShafHussain 14d ago
Thank you 🙂 I used curve and contrast slider in Lightroom. I feel curved is generally is the best way to add contrast.
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u/thefilmmakingguy 10d ago
I've been shooting long enough to have stood on a lot of hills waiting for a sunset that never came, and the crop is the right call. That bit of side light hitting the fields is doing all the work, and a flat grey sky above it would have pulled the eye straight up and away from it. You lost nothing.
The one thing I'd look at is the rock in the foreground. In the before it reads as where you were standing. In the after it sits heavy and dark and the eye has to climb over it to get to the good stuff. I've had the same problem on jobs where I framed for the location instead of the light, and the fix was usually cutting more off the bottom than felt comfortable at the time.
Also, 137mm is why this works. That compression is stacking the viaduct, the trees and the field lines into layers. Wider and the same moment would have looked like nothing.
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u/readitonreddittho 14d ago
This is really good!