![]() I often don’t need to apply perspective corrections, but I usually do need to tackle one of the biggest issues in landscape photography, which is balancing the brightness of the sky and the foreground when there may be 2EV or 3EV difference in brightness between them. Visual distortion corrected using the Transform panel Highlight and Shadow Recovery, Layers, and Masks The first thing I do is check the Constrain Crop box. This is where Exposure X4’s Transform tools come in. If this is part of the picture’s dramatic appeal that’s fine, but converging verticals are an unwanted distraction that often just looks like sloppy oversight. This is most noticeable with man-made structures, but can also make trees and mountains lean in towards each other. If you use an extra-wide angle lens to capture a landscape and your camera is angled upwards to include the full height of your subject, you’re going to introduce some converging vertical or perspective distortion. Transform Toolsįirst, some practicalities. ![]() So here’s a short guide to how I see and capture landscapes and some of the tools I use in Exposure X4 to capture the light, colors, and mood that these scenes evoke. The camera can’t do that on its own, so that’s why we need photo editing software like Alien Skin Exposure X4! It’s particularly well suited to recapturing the fleeting moods and impressions we felt at the time. When we experience a scene, we do it with our eyes, our minds, and our imagination. Sometimes it’s necessary to simplify, isolate, exaggerate, and intensify aspects of the picture to properly capture the impression it’s left on us, and which we want the viewer to share. They can be spectacular, beautiful and evocative, but sometimes the very literal interpretation captured by the camera doesn’t quite match our perception of a place and the effect it has on us. ![]() Like many photographers, I’m fascinated by landscapes.
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