Morning Panorama with A Sea of Mist [free download]+ some superficial editing explanation

sulev (70)in #photography • 7 years ago (edited)

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A shot from yesterday morning.
I merged 4 shots and edited it in Lightroom, then Photoshop, then Lightroom again.

What did I do to the image?

Lightroom:

I merged the images, made a panorama. Added some gradient filters to bring out the warm tones in the sky yet keep some blues in the left corner.
Decreased the vibrancy and increased the saturation a lot. A little dehaze and profile corrections.

Photoshop:

I added an Orton Effect to the foreground, denoised the image and added some sharpening with a high pass filter with an edge mask. I balanced the colors and gave more contrast to the sky.
I removed all dust spots from the image. Because my camera has a scratched sensor and I change lenses a lot there was plenty to fix.

Lightroom:

Brought out more blues in the sky. Desaturated blue colors in the whole picture. Did some fine tuning with highlights and whites. Added more brightness and color to some areas via adjustment brush. Added a radial filter to darken the edges and corners ever so slightly.

*I think I should start doing editing videos to explain every step :P
**that's it for yesterday's photos. Luckily I went out today too, but there was almost no fog this morning. I managed to get some interesting shot though. I'll be posting them once I'm done editing them.