Here are some of my older photos from weekend explorations in California.
Here are some of my older photos from weekend explorations in California.
I migrated these over from Facebook; check my profile here on Google+ to see my post on the free app which can help you do this.
I migrated these over from Facebook; check my profile here on Google+ to see my post on the free app which can help you do this.
Very nice images! I would like to know if you use HDR or exposure fusion from time to time in some of these pictures.
ReplyDeleteI love that little tree and have photographed it often. Is seems dwarfed yet still majestic. Exceptional photography.
ReplyDeleteThanks Jean-Pierre and Michele. Jean Pierre, Yes, at the time these were taken (2005-2007) most DSLRs only produced 12 bit RAW files and my post-processing tools were primitive by today's standards, so it was often productive to use some form of exposure blending to improve dynamic range and preserve highlight and shadow detail. I experimented with Photomatix a lot. While I found its Tone Mapping and Tone Compressor tools were often too damaging to light values and color, just a simple averaging of the images (available indefinitely in free trial mode) often provided a result with greater dynamic range which could be further refined in a standard editing program. Any less realistic images in this album may have come from the more reality-destructive HDR techniques. Post-processing tools have changed a lot in the past few years. If I were to edit these images today, I'd probably do better with a single, somewhat underexposed exposure, edited in Adobe Lightroom.
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot for your explanation about the processing of these images. That's true that software improved a lot in the past years. For instance like you say Lightroom is a fantastic tool that I use also to process my panoramas. I also use a panoramic stitching software that does HDR or exposure fusion during the stitch which gives a lot of good possibilities. Recently I discovery the famous HDR photographer and traveller Trey Ratcliff and I started to experiment with Photomatix. True that it can be destructive in a way but again that's all in the way we want to use it. Keep up the great photography Jeffrey Sullivan and looking for your post in G+ !
ReplyDeleteBrilliant light Jeff and a killer image!
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