Hamish Gill
Tech Support (and Marketing)
A snap that I ended up quite liking 
Storm Cows
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Paul Lange
Moderator
I really like the contrast of the sky and hills to the grass. I think it is superb.
Hamish Gill
Tech Support (and Marketing)
Cheers Paul ... i think its all about the luck of the position of the cows ... or coos i we called them throughout the hols
Pete Askew
Admin
Lovely colours and contast. Storm cows Eh? Well they'd certainly be some thunder and lightning if you tried to milk them!!
Hamish Gill
Tech Support (and Marketing)
We had to get past a herd of them at one point ... They were cornered ... Thunder and lightning is a good description of what came out if a few of thier bums!
Chris Dodkin
West Coast Correspondent
Nice one Hamish, it's really mooooo dy...
Dan Cattermole
Dan Down - The Steampunk Womble
Er.... Yeah.... Moooooving on...lol, Love this shot! Great contrast! Very interested to know the PP proccess on this. Could you explain?? Trying to get a few ideas for some PP on landscape shots I've taken on my holiday before I post them........
Chris Dodkin
West Coast Correspondent
I'm going to milk the cow jokes as much as possible - no bull! 
Hamish Gill
Tech Support (and Marketing)
Reduced luminance and increased saturation in the blues, reduced saturation of greens, increased exposure to bring out the cows a bit ... Then the is a gradient between the foreground and the cows then four gradients overlaid to do the sky. The first sky gradient that covers the whole sky is both a subtle nagative exposure grad with also the clarity set to full ... The other three just just subtle exposure grads laid on top of each other with each one going less far from the top down (does that make sense?) I then used 2 more positive exposure grads to reduce the vignette in the top corners ...at least that's how I remember doing it ... I'll save you the preset with the grads if you like?
Hamish Gill
Tech Support (and Marketing)
Ah Chris and his clever cow jokes ... Don't you think he deserves a pat on the head for being so clever .. Ha!
Hamish Gill
Tech Support (and Marketing)
here yo go dan ... have a play http://www.realphotographersforum.com/threads/1731-Stormy-Cows-LR-Preset ... its not exactly as i described ... but not far off really
Dan Cattermole
Dan Down - The Steampunk Womble
Many thanks,, I'll grab it when I go on the laptop.....
Mathew Growcoot
Well-Known Member
good work, like the way the one is looking up and you've brightened him up a tad. sky looks wicked as well
Hamish Gill
Tech Support (and Marketing)
Cheers buddy ... I made a loud noise in the hope they would look up, just the one looking up made it work loads better I think ... Happy accient!
