Increase the appearance of 'God rays'?

[joe1978]

These are two separate photo's taken last week but I deliberately kept increasing the underexposure to emphasise the dusk sun coming through the clouds.
#1 is the lighter and #2 more of a silhouette, but in neither, with my feeble photoshop knowledge can I emphasise the light rays coming through the clouds. :bang:

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. I can make full jpegs/nefs available if need be

#1

#2

Thanks
Joe

 

[nickshek]

Dodge and burn. Various ways to go about this but you essentially paint the rays brighter/paint the surrounding areas darker.

 

[joe1978]

Dodge and burn. Various ways to go about this but you essentially paint the rays brighter/paint the surrounding areas darker.

Thanks Nick, I gave that a go with very poor results just wondering if there was a less skillful way of doing it :shrug:

joe

 

[Johnnybugs]

Fortuneately your lansdscape is a all a blue colour and strangely similar.

this works in your favour, I would up the brightness, saturation, luminance of the entire picture

THEN

return the lanscape back to the original by desaturating, and reducing the luminence on the blue spectrum


I dont know what package you are using, but on the mac this can be done in apertue3 using the colours tool to easily change a range of colour saturation, luminence, range and hue


This will leave your god rays bright and the island iluminated but the dark blue sea and clouds untouched

 

[joe1978]

Fortuneately your lansdscape is a all a blue colour and strangely similar.

this works in your favour, I would up the brightness, saturation, luminance of the entire picture

THEN

return the lanscape back to the original by desaturating, and reducing the luminence on the blue spectrum


I dont know what package you are using, but on the mac this can be done in apertue3 using the colours tool to easily change a range of colour saturation, luminence, range and hue


This will leave your god rays bright and the island iluminated but the dark blue sea and clouds untouched

I'm using elements 9 on mac but I think I get your drift.
Ta

Joe

 

[Edsport]

Take a look at this video. http://www.picturesocial.com/video/how-to-create-beams-of