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<blockquote data-quote="jrleo33" data-source="post: 230797" data-attributes="member: 17332"><p>Inserting High Dynamic Range Colors into a RAW image using NIX software.</p><p>This photo of the Utah State Capitol building was taken at 10.16AM, with the sun high off my right shoulder causing various shadow problems on the front of the structure. The photo was taken with a 50mm F/1.8D lens at F/6.3, @ 1/1000 S; using NEF (RAW), and initial editing in Lightroom 4.4. </p><p>The first edited RAW photo I sent into the NIX Software had too much clarity, vibrance, and saturation, which caused me to delete the original edit and redo the photo. I set the clarity and vibrance slider to +19, and saturation to zero in LR; and then sent the photo into Vivela 2 to selectively brighten the blue sky with control points. </p><p></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]62418[/ATTACH] </p><p></p><p>The photo below shows the effects of selectively brightening the blue portion of the sky. Care had to be taken here, not to brighten the blue too much, because the final step of this project was to use the Skylight filter in Efex Pro 4, which would apply the High Dynamic Range of colors to the entire photo.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]62420[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Below is the final image after applying the Skylight filter to the entire image, and I to lower the strength percentage down a bit from default. I argued with myself about darkening the two shades of green in the foreground grass, but ended up leaving it as is. </p><p>I purchased the NIX collection, as it is very impressive software for the price. I ended with (7) TIFF images that required 956 MBs of HD space, so the earlier advice given on cleaning up behind your workflow was well given. Myself, I think the decision to plant the trees and block the view of this beautiful building was not well thought out. </p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]62421[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jrleo33, post: 230797, member: 17332"] Inserting High Dynamic Range Colors into a RAW image using NIX software. This photo of the Utah State Capitol building was taken at 10.16AM, with the sun high off my right shoulder causing various shadow problems on the front of the structure. The photo was taken with a 50mm F/1.8D lens at F/6.3, @ 1/1000 S; using NEF (RAW), and initial editing in Lightroom 4.4. The first edited RAW photo I sent into the NIX Software had too much clarity, vibrance, and saturation, which caused me to delete the original edit and redo the photo. I set the clarity and vibrance slider to +19, and saturation to zero in LR; and then sent the photo into Vivela 2 to selectively brighten the blue sky with control points. [ATTACH=CONFIG]62418._xfImport[/ATTACH] The photo below shows the effects of selectively brightening the blue portion of the sky. Care had to be taken here, not to brighten the blue too much, because the final step of this project was to use the Skylight filter in Efex Pro 4, which would apply the High Dynamic Range of colors to the entire photo. [ATTACH=CONFIG]62420._xfImport[/ATTACH] Below is the final image after applying the Skylight filter to the entire image, and I to lower the strength percentage down a bit from default. I argued with myself about darkening the two shades of green in the foreground grass, but ended up leaving it as is. I purchased the NIX collection, as it is very impressive software for the price. I ended with (7) TIFF images that required 956 MBs of HD space, so the earlier advice given on cleaning up behind your workflow was well given. Myself, I think the decision to plant the trees and block the view of this beautiful building was not well thought out. [ATTACH=CONFIG]62421._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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