Nationalpark Jasmund

Yet another comp shot at the chalk cliffs in Rügen . I just love this stone in the water and here I had the sweet light directly behind it. I added some blue here to enhance the calm feeling, but not to much. Hope you like it. It's a dri blended in enfuse first and then manually worked on it with the original layers in ps.

So now a photoshop tip concerning colors, nothing spectacular just a little behind the scenes of how I work the colors in my images.... I usually start with selective color adjustment layer and try to remove some color casts in the different colors (a saturation layer above with increased saturation makes this easier).. I usually enhance the red in the yellows and reds by removing cyan and I remove some yellow from the blue and cyan part which deepens the blue, I also add a little cyan here.. this starts to emphasize a warm - cool contrast in the images. Then increase the saturation in a saturation adjustment layer a bit. Now some more selective adjustment focusing solely on a specific color contrast, I usually like orange-blue as I have it here. I like to use colorbalance for this. Add some red and yellow for a warm cast and apply a mask to keep it to specific areas as e.g. the warm clouds in the sky here and the reflection. Another colorbalance where you increase the blue /cyan is good for water, sky and some clouds. This was applied to most of the image here. Usually it takes some more adjsutment layers.. You don't need to get the colors you want with one adjustment layer, just build up the effect by multiple layers and by masking.

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Sunrise at the Chalk Cliffs on the island Rügen. I was using my Big Stopper here to greate a mystic look for this photo. The clouds and the soft light in the foreground are the result of a 103s exposure with the sun peeking through the clouds from time to time. In a second shorter exposure I got the sunstar a bit better and blended both.

Hope you like it.

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