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cpaulfell
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 1:30 am
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jmci
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 4:03 am
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Very dramatic, but something isn't quite right. I think you've got a conflict of colour schemes going on between the purple mountain and the green sky - they don't really look as if they belong together (just my opinion).
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matthi
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 5:10 am
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+1 for the colors, plus you...
also have the light source (sun) centered behind the mountains, meanwhile the mountains are front right lit, also the light intensity does not match, the light on the mountains is much to bright and harsh for such a cloudy covered sun...so it´s obviously a faked scenery and therefor does not work here...
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jhuls
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 6:08 am
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This looks like a night scene to me. But like the others said it looks like two images pasted together. Different colors and the moon is just rising so the light should be hitting the mountains different.
I like the mountain by itself but it seems a different sky is in order.
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hhltdave5
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Location: Our Stock, Food & Portrait photography books at www.rindersmithphotography.com
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 7:05 am
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As mentioned when it comes to composite images in order for it to look more realistic the sky and land should be lit from the same direction and generally the same exposure. Just slapping a sky in will often not work well. That is why many of us have thousands of skies that show not only different cloud formations but different directions of light, intensity and from different times of day and conditions.
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cpaulfell
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 11:42 am
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| hhltdave5 wrote: | | Just slapping a sky in will often not work well. That is why many of us have thousands of skies that show not only different cloud formations but different directions of light, intensity and from different times of day and conditions. |
Thanks for all the comments. I did actually notice the light directions were wrong and actually started assembling this past weekend a collection as suggested. Long way to go and I am also quickly learning that shooting sky by it's self is a whole other business.
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jeffbanke
Joined: 18 Dec 2005
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Location: www.xlr8photo.com, The real California
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 12:43 pm
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| cpaulfell wrote: | | hhltdave5 wrote: | | Just slapping a sky in will often not work well. That is why many of us have thousands of skies that show not only different cloud formations but different directions of light, intensity and from different times of day and conditions. |
Thanks for all the comments. I did actually notice the light directions were wrong and actually started assembling this past weekend a collection as suggested. Long way to go and I am also quickly learning that shooting sky by it's self is a whole other business. |
Good that you are figuring out that sky's are important, not only the direction of the sunlight is important, but also the angle of the camera and distance of clouds scenes from the camera are important to ensure that it is to the same scale as the image you want to place the clouds image in. Shooting straight up for example rarely works, UNLESS one was going to use it as a background for an aircraft:-)
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mikenorton
Joined: 22 Aug 2005
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Location: Guide Book http://www.lulu.com/shop/mike-norton/nortons-notes/paperback/product-5079819.html
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 7:54 pm
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| cpaulfell wrote: | | hhltdave5 wrote: | | Just slapping a sky in will often not work well. That is why many of us have thousands of skies that show not only different cloud formations but different directions of light, intensity and from different times of day and conditions. |
Thanks for all the comments. I did actually notice the light directions were wrong and actually started assembling this past weekend a collection as suggested. Long way to go and I am also quickly learning that shooting sky by it's self is a whole other business. |
Find the color in the clouds that you want to stand out and spot meter it. If the clouds are white and the sky is blue, spot meter the blue sky.
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jeffbanke
Joined: 18 Dec 2005
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Location: www.xlr8photo.com, The real California
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 8:18 pm
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Oh, it is good to watch the weather channel or at least the news regarding the weather, and go out and shoot when they say a front will be passing through, you always get clouds on the leading edges of fronts.
Another good thing is keep shooting as the front passes through as you will get some darker cloud formations.
Cumulus clouds (those are the big puffy cottonball ones) obviously make interesting skies, but don't forget the cirro cumulus, alto stratus and stratus clouds that have some interesting texture to them up high and at the leading edge of a cold front and especially at sunset or sunrise
here is a cumulus substitution
this is not a substitution, but the actual cumulus on the day
Stratus on the day
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