tropicmom Posted February 6, 2016 Posted February 6, 2016 I have played with trying to achieve this look and I'm at a loss. I may have discovered part of the reason in searching for my own photo... it seems not many of this photog's are backlit as strongly, but I can also promise you that the water and sky colors are not that intense SOOC as her location is fairly close to mine. I don't think she typically drops skies in, it seems to be an enhancement of existing skies? I've tried playing with my saturation but I get very weird unnatural results.. I've linked to a FB post as her site seems to be down atm and the photo closest to mine would be the one at the middle right of this collage: Here's mine, SOOR, any help would be much appreciated :-)
Damien Symonds Posted February 6, 2016 Posted February 6, 2016 Hi tropicmom, in order to enrich the background of a photo like this, there has to be some detail to work with. If you lower the Exposure on your photo, is there some detail in the white areas?
tropicmom Posted February 7, 2016 Author Posted February 7, 2016 I realized that too, that much of my sky and some water were blown. I ultimately dropped a sky into this one, but on the right side there is detail and color in the sky.
Damien Symonds Posted February 7, 2016 Posted February 7, 2016 The one you linked either had detail in the capture, or the sky was replaced.
tropicmom Posted February 7, 2016 Author Posted February 7, 2016 I'm wondering how the colors in the water were done as well. As I mentioned, the area is not far from me and I know the water isn't that color naturally.
Damien Symonds Posted February 7, 2016 Posted February 7, 2016 I can help you get any colours you like, I promise. But there has to be some detail there to work with. Adding colour to white will just look like flat colour, not lovely at all. 1
tropicmom Posted July 2, 2017 Author Posted July 2, 2017 Got a little busy ;-) but would this one work any better, please?
Damien Symonds Posted July 2, 2017 Posted July 2, 2017 Yeah, that'll work! Go ahead and do your raw and levels work on that, then we'll discuss the colour tweaking.
tropicmom Posted July 2, 2017 Author Posted July 2, 2017 Done. Cleared the beach as well. Caught my lens hood in the corners but expect to crop that out anyway.
Damien Symonds Posted July 2, 2017 Posted July 2, 2017 Ok, great. It was Hue/Saturation, exactly as you said. The kids are hollering to be fed, I'll be back shortly ...
Abak671022 Posted July 3, 2017 Posted July 3, 2017 I ❤️ this! Thanks for sharing..can't wait to try this on a few of my favorite beach photos. 1
tropicmom Posted July 4, 2017 Author Posted July 4, 2017 23 hours ago, Damien Symonds said: How did you go, did you try it? I did! So simple, yet so easy to miss! 1
tropicmom Posted July 4, 2017 Author Posted July 4, 2017 I have another, but I'll start another thread.... 1
Abak671022 Posted July 5, 2017 Posted July 5, 2017 Hey Damien, I tried to download this PSD and open in Elements but it just shows a folder next to the layer mask so I can't actually see the steps you took because the folder won't expand. When I hover my mouse over the folder it says "indicates a set." Is this because I have elements? Is there a way to duplicate this effect in elements? Thanks in advance!
Damien Symonds Posted July 5, 2017 Posted July 5, 2017 Ah yes. Hold on, I'll upload an Elements version ... Elements-friendly PSD file 1
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