"dodging" a photo

[arlon]

I took a picture of a storm coming over the Guadalupe Mountains in West Texas a few weeks ago. It looked like a natural for a BW conversion but I was unhappy with the final result. I went back to the color image and simply used the "brush/dodge" tool (30 second job) to slightly lighten the foreground and give me a much better balanced picture I think.

The BW conversion from the original color:


The BW version with the "dodged" foreground:

[JFSanders]

Yes, much better! The balance is really good in your dodged image. Beautifully done.

Jim

[Evn1ngStar]

Very nice end result.

It would be interesting to see if you could have gotten the same sort of result by playing with the color sliders in the B/W conversion window

[ovie]

I love this shot! This totally reminds me of the movie Independence Day when the ships come in.

Fantastic work with brush/dodge.

[Bruce A]

Yep, it certainly did the trick - great capture!

[v_1848]

Great Capture of the Clouds... Nice Shot... Loved the composition

[GlynT]

Great job!

But I would have naturally done the same thing in Lightroom on the RAW file (with the graduated filter).

Any reason why you did it with the dodge tool (Photoshop I'm assuming?) - any advantages?

Thanks,


Glyn

[arlon]

Originally Posted by GlynT

Great job!

But I would have naturally done the same thing in Lightroom on the RAW file (with the graduated filter).

Any reason why you did it with the dodge tool (Photoshop I'm assuming?) - any advantages?

Thanks,


Glyn

Just the tool I had at hand and new how to use. Don't have lightroom, seldom see any benefit in shooting raw files. Only advantage I can think of is it took 10 seconds to do and didn't cost me anything. (-:}

[arkusm]

You caught a great moment, that shot is worthy of a poster imo. If I didn't read your post I might have guessed it was an HDR shot. Thank you for giving me another idea for options in post work.

Cheers.

Edit: Ha I followed your Divantart link and there you say the original(in colour) is an HDR. funny. Still a great shot.