Comments on: Colorful Sky and Night Skyline

By: Lynn

Lynn — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:19:22 +0000

Hi Mahesh, Like your new site, fresh looking also like your tutorial.

By: Mahesh

Mahesh — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:56:02 +0000

Joel, thanks for the comment and great suggestion! Actually, there’s nothing stopping you from downloading the sample images from this blog and following along. In any tutorial I write about, the reader will be able to download the “preliminary” images and follow along. Does that sound like what you’re “wishing” for?

By: Joel

Joel — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:07:48 +0000

Great new web site Mahesh. Excellent tutorial. One wish, which may not be practical to grant, is that I had similar pictures to try out the technique you describe here. If you had some pictures you didn’t mind sharing by posting them on the web, perhaps some you “protect” by modifying or putting your banner through the middle of it, we could try out your technique immediately and see how well we do.

By: Mahesh

Mahesh — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:42:20 +0000

Rolf, great question! I didn’t go too much into the details of bracketing in this blog. I’ll save that for another day. However, to answer your question, I almost never use the traditional “HDR” blends as I find the look to be drastically different than what I’m going for. If I know I’ll be doing a colorful sky and night skyline combo, I use bracketing mainly as a “safety net,” so there are no big mistakes in exposures. Typically, I end up choosing the uncompensated (“0″) image from a bracket set for both the colorful sky and night skyline. That being said, there’s nothing stopping anyone from taking the bracketed images for “sky” and “night”, creating HDR versions for each set, and applying the techniques outlined in this tutorial on those images. I hope I’ve answered your question.

By: Rolf

Rolf — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:23:49 +0000

Dear Mahesh,

I’ve seen your tutorial as mentioned above, it is very helpful. Thanks a lot for this. But I’ve one question that is not answored in the tutorial.
You told you bracket your exposures. Which picture do you then use in Photoshop? One of those three that fits, or an HDR of these three?

By: Mahesh

Mahesh — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:48:10 +0000

Conrad, buddy…no trouble at all. I’d promised this to you a while back. I finally got my lazy butt in gear and put together this tutorial.

By: Conrad Tan

Conrad Tan — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:54:19 +0000

Mahesh I thank you for taking the time to post this tutorial. I appreciate the time it took for you and will hopefully be creating some post worthy images of landscapes soon!

By: Mahesh

Mahesh — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:10:31 +0000

Eric, thanks for the comment once again, my friend. I do use several of the social sharing icons listed above, but not all of them. However, I know many who do. That’s why I included all of ‘em. We’ll definitely chat more in SD.

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:49:16 +0000

Very nicely done.
Do you actually work with all the links above? Never heard of some of them. We need to chat more…in San Diego perhaps.