Field of fire. (corny I know)

[FoG]

Before


After


What I did...

The pic was inspired by a shot edited in Photoraphy Magazine. (Will find name and pic title later)

I cut the bottom of the field shot and the top of the sunset picture. matched the up in a new picture. once I had the bottom right I pasted a new copy over the original and used multiply blend to dark it .. the sunset is washed out colour wise and has a mast in the original so I placed a black square behind the layer and used blend Soft Light (i think) to darken the colours up removed the mast with the clone tool.. after matching the join as best I could I merged all the layers and then added a burn to the field to blend it a bit better with the sky... job done a pic I am more than hapy with and hope the original finds it flattering a numpty like me copied it

Not bad for Serif I say always amazed at what this lil program can do.

[ressalg]

That's a really amazing image. Great PP work. Thanks for sharing and giving us the details.

[FoG]

Originally Posted by ressalg

That's a really amazing image. Great PP work. Thanks for sharing and giving us the details.

Thank you ! Will be trying this on a few more older images that I took before starting here to see what I can come up with as last night discovered a few more images that could work well with this treatment
also Serif is masively underrated so was nice to see it punching above it's weight since the original image I took the idea from is done in Photoshop. hoping to upgrade to X3 soon also

[flavio]

The resulting picture is dramatic and beautiful. Really hot!

To do this type of tricks I follow the tutorial given here:

http://boitblog.blogspot.com/2007/08...will-have.html

It is not too difficult and the results are quite decent. Yours is great, don't get me wrong.
I just think that maybe you'd like to try something else.

Reminds me of this one i did a while back.

[ntinlizi]

that is really amazing, im gonna have to try that one of these days. thank you for sharing!

[FoG]

Originally Posted by maxharvard

Reminds me of this one i did a while back.

It was a pic in Digital Photographer by Rod Hanchard- Goodwin (very posh name huh ) that inspired it but personally mine rocks hehe

Originally Posted by ntinlizi

that is really amazing, im gonna have to try that one of these days. thank you for sharing!

Thank you for the kind words I am still not happy with it as the horizon was abit harsh and this was what was pointed out in Critique so adjusted it a wee bit here it is now I am happy

Originally Posted by flavio

The resulting picture is dramatic and beautiful. Really hot!

To do this type of tricks I follow the tutorial given here:

BoitBlog: Put on a Happy Sky

It is not too difficult and the results are quite decent. Yours is great, don't get me wrong.
I just think that maybe you'd like to try something else.

Thank you I do something very similar on skies where the daylight blows the sky out but that was an interesting link thank you

[Frienca]

Very motivating and inspirational. Keep up the awesome work.

[daddyoproductions]

Lovesit! Great match

[Usuqa]

Very nice work, something ill have to try