About the Image(s)

Back into the files yet again. This month’s shot is based off a five shot bracket using a Canon 1D MK IV, 28-135 lens at 28 mm, F 22, iso 200 with a base shutter of 0.3 seconds and two shots at one stop intervals above and below. The raw files were processed in DxO Pure Raw 4 and the blend was done in Aurora 2019. In Photoshop I made refinements to contrast and then used a masked Selective color layer to bring up the trees and a masked HSL layer to move the water wheel off of a “sad excuse for orange” color to something more like the water wheels I see up here. It was raining the entire time I was there leaving me with a miserable excuse for a sky. I don’t have any handy stormy sky shots to blend in, so I left it alone. I will qualify that by admitting I looked at selecting the sky and doing a Generative Fill without a prompt and was hit by the results because in every instance it returned something that went deep enough into the trees to impact the roof line on the mill. In some instances it created trees that just don’t exist in the source shot. That convinced me that even without a prompt GF is using the Firefly database and may return pixels from someone else’s image.