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Light in the Langdales - part 5 of 1 2 3 4 5 6

by Paul Gallagher Published 01/04/2009

The fifth curve was a return to the sunlit mountains. I made a slightly different selection of the mountains once again and applied quite a radical curve adjustment layer to accentuate the sun. I felt confident doing this at this stage because my visualisation of the scene was now coming to life and after building the image up I knew this would represent what I saw.

I applied a very large feather to curve six as I wanted to make a selection across the middle of the valley floor in the foreground. Once again this selection was different from the first I had made of the valley floor and one which only accentuates the light at the foot of the image. The reason I do not simply reopen the same selections from the layers menu is that, once again, the adjustments would be obvious in the finished image and also the different selections are applying slight differences in tonal range.

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