 Romen Vargas |
How do I get this blue thing happening? Example pics are below taken from www.mauiweddings.com
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John A. Lind |
At least part of the top one is easy to "reverse engineer." It was done with a super wide-angle and a high ratio of fill flash. The fill looks unnaturally high to me, especially for opposing the direction of the natural back lighting, but that's an opinion; others might like it because it heavily highlights them. Some of the blue sky may be due to the lateness in the day... it looks to be after sunset near the end of the afterglow when the clouds will turn a blue-gray and the sky a deeper blue. Also very likely the reason the fill is so high... to get a decent exposure of the couple with so little natural light left... and what was there was behind them. The bottom one definitely looks like a grad filter, or some other similar manipulation to get a dark blue sky above the trees. It could have been done when the photograph was made, or afterward in making the print. This also looks somewhat unnatural to me. It seems too abrupt and not graduated enough (again just my opinion; others might like it). If a dark blue sky had been allowed to extended down behind the couple, there wouldn't be as much contrast for the silhouette. Where I live the sky often washes out near the horizon, especially looking into the sun, and especially on days with some haze. It's a lot more gradual and not nearly as abrupt as in this photo though.
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