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Freddie Ardley

@ardley / blog.freddieardley.com

Landscape & Interiors Photographer
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Creating New Composite Worlds

This is my first composite photograph, and this post should give you little insight into my creative thinking and process. Here two completely different images taken in different years are blended together to create a new story.

First in Photoshop simply starting a new project with same dimensions as original two RAW full frame images. Very quickly I layered the Lightning photograph (which was taken at midnight in the summer of 2014) on top and lined the bottom of the strike with the horizon in the new landscape.

Then using a brush set to clear with a feathered radius, flow 50% and opacity 40% brushed out the foreground of the lightning photograph. Gradually (with patience) reducing the flow to produce a seamless blend of both skies.

This left me with the 3rd image which I then saved as a .tif and moved into Lightroom CC. To finish creating one sky, I desaturated the entire sky including the tree which I would later contrast to produce a striking silhouette.

To dramatise the image further I darkened and increased the contrast of both the highest cloud and introduced shadow into the foreground. All using brushes of feather 60%, flow 88% and density 88%.

Final touches to the scene involved adding a feathered vignette with a small midpoint. Removing distracting grass elements and a bench from the foreground and finally using a clarity brush to go over the edges of the major components of the image and give it a final dramatic edge.

I hope you find this informative, and look to do more of these quick editing inspiration posts with more dramatic skies and interesting landscapes.

By Freddie Ardley Photography

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Approaching Storm

These photographs are the from the only time I have photographed lightning. The hardest part I find photographing storms, is not actually getting the timing right because all you need is a long exposure, but finding the luck that lightning strikes in the frame.

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