Hi Lyle, this is a stunning scene, like the layered hills and good work blending exposures. I prefer this image to your previous one, love the composition in this shot. Personally I think the image is lacking a little punch, would add a little mid tone contrast.
Lovely composition and light. Something still feels amiss for me, even in the repost, in terms of exposure and colour balance. Details also seem very smooth.
Lyle, would you mind sending me a RAW file via Dropbox so I can have a crack at it?
what a great scene of the big canyon. I agree with Morkel on this. Your image has not a color profile embedded! You might want to assign sRGB to it! Here a great post from Steve K. http://www.birdphotographers.net/for...-for-Web-in-PS
Thanks for taking the time Morkel. I re-worked it again also. I definitely like your less garish version. Sometimes I need to be reined in again. I suppose you used the gradient tool like I've seen you post about before? I had been blending by hand via the paintbrush, but that can get very tedious and time consuming. I tried the gradient tool myself to blend these together and came out with a little different version. I downplayed the reds and brightened up the image a little as a whole. WDYT?
That looks good too, Lyle. I'd think having the canyon brightness somewhere between the 2 would be ideal.
Though I often use the gradient tool, there is a much more efficient way to blend which also avoids selection bleeding and halos. It's called "luminosity masks" - you can find plenty pre-written actions and helpful tutorials from the original purveyor of this method, Tony Kuyper, over on his website - www.goodlight.us
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