Here's a cool tip....

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fotojack

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Forgot Your Polarizer? You can add some "umph" to a sky by color sampling the blue (in Lightroom, Aperture, or ACR), then increasing the saturation and decreasing the luminance. Try it with one of your favorite landscape shots.
 
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gqtuazon

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fotojack said:
Forgot Your Polarizer? You can add some "umph" to a sky by color sampling the blue (in Lightroom, Aperture, or ACR), then increasing the saturation and decreasing the luminance. Try it with one of your favorite landscape shots.
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Thanks for the tip Jack. I used Nikon NX2 most of the time and I'll give this a try using CS5. I normally use Vivid just to increase the saturation even more whenever I want to get a deep blue sky. Here is a sample and I also used a CP with this shot.


Building parking lot Yokosuka Naval Base by gqtuazon, on Flickr
 
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gqtuazon

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Going back to what Jack have started, I did a couple of test shots yesterday using (1) standard picture control and (2) modified Vivid version on my camera. Here are the two different results that I got without using a CPL filter. These were NEF files converted to jpg and re-sized using Nikon NX2. What do you guys think?

(1) Standard Picture control

standard_picture_control.jpg




(2) Vivid-2 (modified in camera presets)

Vivid.jpg
 
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