Photographing Landscapes When It’s Overcast

One of the things that you need to make most landscape photographs work, is sunlight and at least some blue sky.

On a trip earlier this year to Byron Bay, in northern NSW, Australia, sunlight was a little lacking.

So, I just waited until there was a hint of sunlight and then let Photoshop do the rest!

Byron Bay Lighthouse

Some of my favourite Photoshop tools are Contrast (usually set to 3), and Colour Balance (upping Red by about 3 also).  These can both be found in Image > Adjustments.

Here is another vista that I used both these tools on:

Brunswick Heads

So, even in dull weather, you can still take nice landscape photographs, and if not - switch them to black and white!

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