Rural Scenes

[stephencamptonjones]

Three images taken near Kyogle.
Nikon D80 18-135mm @105mm f5.6 1/160 sec ISO 100
I processed these a little differently than normal
I used an exposure layer with a gamma of 0.74 an an offset of 0.0288.
Sharpened with a high pass filter of 1.5 and a linear light blending mode.







Now I'm having second thoughts about the blending mode

[Bobobird]

Though there is some haloing along the mountain edge, these look pretty good to me.

What benefit were you expecting from the exposure layer?

[FrankMi]

Hi Stephen, the scene is lovely but images #1 & #3 appear unnatural with that amount of difference between the sunlit and cloud shaded areas. Number 2 looks dark on my monitor. Although I can't tell what is in the sky in the way of clouds in the direction that the sun is shining from, what sky I can see appears to be almost deviod of clouds making the sunlit verses shaded areas of the image appear a tad illogical.

Assuming that you did have both a bright sun and heavy clouds casting the shadows, It might work better if the difference wasn't so pronounced. Hope this helps!

[stephencamptonjones]

Frank, they were going to be B/W images, I turned off the B/W layer and fiddled trying for something different. I wasn't after natural.

[FrankMi]

Frank, they were going to be B/W images, I turned off the B/W layer and fiddled trying for something different. I wasn't after natural.

Ah! That explains it. Can't help with B&W as I am as dumb as a post in that area!