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<blockquote data-quote="Clovishound" data-source="post: 805335" data-attributes="member: 50197">I took this photo at a local abbey. It is a beautiful spot on the Cooper river. I have done a lot of diving in the river near this old plantation turned into basically a retirement home for monks. Anyway, I love the look of this small body of water on the grounds. In the RAW file the sky is very splotchy and bland. I can bring up the saturation using several of the masks, and have managed to smooth it out a good bit, but it still doesn't look quite right to me. Perhaps it is a case of too much time spent messing with it, and I now can't see the forest for the trees. I'm thinking I might need to reshoot it using a polarizer.Suggestions? Comments? Fixes?[ATTACH=full]390958[/ATTACH]Here is a panoramic of the same location I tried. Needed to do a series of vertical shots to get the tops of the trees in, and had the wrong tripod head with me for that. This shows some of the issues I had with the sky while processing the single image.[ATTACH=full]390959[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Clovishound, post: 805335, member: 50197"] I took this photo at a local abbey. It is a beautiful spot on the Cooper river. I have done a lot of diving in the river near this old plantation turned into basically a retirement home for monks. Anyway, I love the look of this small body of water on the grounds. In the RAW file the sky is very splotchy and bland. I can bring up the saturation using several of the masks, and have managed to smooth it out a good bit, but it still doesn't look quite right to me. Perhaps it is a case of too much time spent messing with it, and I now can't see the forest for the trees. I'm thinking I might need to reshoot it using a polarizer. Suggestions? Comments? Fixes? [ATTACH type="full" alt="_DAB8063-2.jpg"]390958[/ATTACH] Here is a panoramic of the same location I tried. Needed to do a series of vertical shots to get the tops of the trees in, and had the wrong tripod head with me for that. This shows some of the issues I had with the sky while processing the single image. [ATTACH type="full" alt="_DAB8106-Pano.jpg"]390959[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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