Dreamy Light-Trails Mountainscape in Lightroom & Photoshop |

In this quickedit video I'm working on a night time mountainscape photo which I want to combine with a car light-trails shot to a dreamy, blue hour image. For the #PostProcessing I will be using Adobe #Lightroom Classic CC and #Photoshop
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One of my goals for my recent Dolomite trip was to capture a few cool car light-trails images. After finding this cool road (Grödner Joch) I planned coming to this exact spot shortly after sunset. First I took a base image without any lights, then waited until cars came down the road and took another image with a longer shutter speed (which creats those light trais) which I then later can combine in Photoshop.
The basic Raw adjustments were done in Lightroom for both the main image and the car-lights-exposure. After activating the lens correction settings I changed the color profile to Adobe Standard which helped me recover details from the darker areas. Since the base image was rather dark I then increased the exposure and to prevent the highlights from getting to bright I also dropped them quite a bit. To further bring back details from the dark parts the shadows were increased, as well as the whites to get some nice brightness throughout the picture. Now to make everything look sharper and more structured I added some extra texture and clarity (works especially good with mountain images in my opinion).
Also two radial filters were applied, one for the upper left part to add a little bit of glow and fake light coming from this area (increasing blacks, whites and exposure) and one radial filter for the curve in the foreground. Here I added clarity to make this area look really clear. For the color grading I reduced the blue saturation since it was quite heavy and then added a cold, blue color tone to the dark areas using split toning.
After making a few quick adjustments to the light-trails shot (lens corrections & white balance adjustment to make the lights whiter) I opened both in Photoshop. To blend those t olayers together I placed the main photo first, then the lights shot on top of it and changed the blending mode to 'Linear Dodge'. Then I wanted to add some more local glow for the car lights. So I created a new layer, set the blending mode to hard light and grabbed a white brush (with low opacity) and brushed along the lights gently. Since the sky in the upper left part was a bit empty I also decided to add the moon here (If you want to use the moon image you can find it here: unsplash.com/photos/DOIgz9_qmFI ), again I simply used the linear dodge blending mode here.

[@ashrefjh7227]

thanx

[@andreashaselwanter]

What kind of camera you use?

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

I used the Canon EOS 6D + the Tokina 11-16 mm lens for this shot

[@andreashaselwanter]

@@ThePhlogPhotography I have also the Tokina 11-16. Work this lens on full frame?

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

@@andreashaselwanter It does, but you can only really use the 16 mm, since you would end up with heavy vignetting when going any lower!