expose for the highlights develop for the shadows in ATWATER expose for the highlights develop for the shadows ATWATER

expose for the highlights develop for the shadows in ATWATER

expose for the highlights develop for the shadows ATWATER

expose for the highlights develop for the shadows in ATWATER.A700 was set on a tripod, in front of the tamron 1118 i used a chinese replica of a cokin nd grad and later on heavily massaged the raw file in lightzone.
Exposing to the right, the raw file was really bland, so without setting a new black point it would have been bleak and colorless.
In the next step the sky is carefully darkened.
Note the dotted line that indicates a lightzone region, and the feather zone between the outer and inner lines now the saturation is increased in two consecutive, identical steps.
I tried two steps as i had the feeling that doing it in one large step results in clipping, but i still have to do some test to prove this theory.
Opening the shadows is substantially reduced from the default, in the sky i want the dark areas to remain dark.
Again a lightzone region is used to restrict the effect to the land.
The spot tool finalizes the treatment of the image by removing a dark blotch in the sky.
All those steps are saved without change to the raw file in a lightzone jpeg file with contains the recipes as jpeg comments.
Posted 40 months ago.