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Enhancing skies with Top & Bottom Tuning and the Polarizing filters

Enhancing skies with Top & Bottom Tuning and the Polarizing filters - Aurora HDR Tutorial

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Enhancing skies with Top & Bottom Tuning and the Polarizing filters

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- One of the areas that many people like to refine is the ability to really adjust the bottom and the top of the photo separately. This is particularly true for landscape photography. Let me show you how we can control the sky a bit better as well as use a polarizer. Now as we take a look here, the polarizing filter is a useful way to really go after the sky area. And you'll notice that as that value increases it targets the blues in the sky. Now this particular image doesn't have a lot of blue because the clouds were very thick that day. But I do like how the polarizer is helping get some better separation there, in the clouds versus the sky. Additionally, let's go to the top and bottom tuning filter here. This filter makes it easy to target things. But in order to do this accurately click the Set Orientation button. This allows you to adjust where the horizon is. And the ability to create a transition zone. For example, I can actually have a nice, gentle transition here from the top…

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