Penang Blue Sky....

[ZhenMing]

Does those look underexpose?

[ckchowov]

#2 -- Ground -1/3 step.

[hanuman]

over all looks a little dull .. especially the sky and building looks a tad under exposed. My rendition of PP
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[noordin]

You're lucky to have blue skies. KL never has................ :run_away:

[ZhenMing]

#2 -- Ground -1/3 step.
Ah Chow... Thanks. It prove that i'm right on the picture where it's underexpose..

over all looks a little dull .. especially the sky and building looks a tad under exposed. My rendition of PP
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Thanks Hanu... yours look brighter of coz...

You're lucky to have blue skies. KL never has................ :run_away:
Sifu Noodin.. that's the reason i'm so happy to shoot this blue sky!!!!!

[noordin]

I was in Sabah for the Crossing Bridges outing and the moment we alighted the plane I was overwhelmed by the clear blue sky and the pure white clouds. Just give me the urge to get out there with my camera! :D

[ZhenMing]

now'a'day... kind of easy to get blue sky in penang.. but lately.. cloudy... raining most of the time...

[Alan_drg]

Last Saturday was indeed wonder full day for shooting, and did juz that...
All day sky was blue... Really happy on that day but on the next day till today, dull whole day and rain only:P

[ZhenMing]

yup.. last sat.. on my way to KL... saw the blue sky.. are damn the nice... but since then.. didn't see blue at all.. only white and grey all the time...

[ZhenMing]

This is the another shot on blue sky but with Gradual ND filter + gradual Blue filter on the cokin holder.... Is that better? C&C welcome...

[unclevicky]

Hi,

Your images have a cyan cast which can be seen if you run your pointer on a patch which you think should be neutral (grey wall, rock etc) in Photoshop and look in the info window (the cyan number will be way over the Magenta and Yellow values). You can also see this in the green of the trees (which have become very blue) and have lost any yellow in them. Also, all the reds have become very muted.

I've used two curves here which I have saved as presets in case you want to see them - in which case please PM me and I'll email them to you.

Essentially, all I did was to tap the mid grey on a spot I thought should be mid-grey to erase the cast (you may have to do this a few times to get the best result - it's a bit of a hit and miss process), and to curve up the contrast a bit as it was lacking a bit of sparkle. After doing this you should see the reds and yellows come back into your image, and the lovely blue gradient that starts from behind the hill and gets darker as it travels up the picture (in pic 1).

BTW Beware of too much contrast, and also that contrasting with curves naturally adds saturation to your images (the results need to be desaturated a bit - but that's my opinion only).

Anyway, I hope that's okay, just trying to help out.

Kind Regards, Z.