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\n\t\t\t\"Darkening\t\t\t

Before<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

This photograph of an avenue of beech trees was taken by Andrew Wilson at the Dark Hedges near Ballymoney, in Northern Ireland. The picture was shot using a Nikon D600 with a Nikkor 28-300mm f\/3.5-5.6 lens at the 300mm lens setting, and the exposure was 1\/125sec at f\/5.6. This was pushing the technical limits of what one could expect to capture using these settings. I assume Andrew had the vibration reduction enabled in order to reduce the camera shake. Ideally, the camera should have been mounted on a tripod, and \u2028a smaller lens aperture used to increase the depth of field. I like the final image, though, and the fact the original was shot lighter did not inhibit choosing to apply a darker processing treatment. This is because exposing to the right enables you to capture more levels of tone information, and therefore have more tone detail to edit with.<\/p>\n\t\t

\n\t\t\t\"Darkening\t\t\t

After<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

1. Darken the exposure<\/h2>\n\"Andrew-Wilson_1\"\n

In this first step, I adjusted the Basic panel settings to darken the exposure, and set the Contrast slider to -60
\nto reduce the global contrast. At the same time, I set the Clarity slider to +100 to boost the midtone contrast.
\nI also manually adjusted the white balance to make the photograph appear warmer.<\/p>\n

2. Add a Tone Curve adjustment<\/h2>\n\"Andrew-Wilson_2\"\n

Having applied global and localised contrast adjustments in the first step, I then went to the Tone Curve panel to fine-tune the overall contrast. Here, I applied the parametric sliders settings to carefully manage the tone balance between the shadows, midtones and highlights.<\/p>\n

3. Add a darkening vignette<\/h2>\n\"Andrew-Wilson_3\"\n

Finally, I selected the Crop tool and removed the trees either side. Next, I went to the Effects panel, where
\nI adjusted the Amount slider to apply a soft feathered, negative Highlight Priority adjustment that darkened the corners of the photograph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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