My Photo Guides

Badwater Basin Sunrise This was taken at 6:55 am in the same location as my black and white photo a couple of posts ago, captured at 7:32 pm the night before.  Shooting into the bright oncoming sunrise, I used a graduated neutral density filter to reduce the brightness of the sky and captured three bracketed exposures to improve dynamic range.  I adjusted an image in Adobe Lightroom 5.7, applied that to three exposures and sent them to Photomatix HDR (Soft 2 processing if I remember correctly) to include more shadow and highlight detail in this high contrast lighting, readjusted the resulting TIF file in Lightroom, then sent that result to OnOne Perfect Effects 9 for a final tweak. This is a large basin where a giant lake evaporated thousands of years ago, and the mineral-rich waters left a deposit of rock salt.  Wind deposits dust on the salt flats, but pools of water dissolve it into salt water, and the dirt settles to the bottom, so when the surface re-crystallizes, it becomes salt ...

Sunrise over the Salt Flats This image of an oncoming sunrise was taken in Badwater Basin salt flats in Death Valley National Park last month.  It was adjusted in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7, Photomatix 5, and on1 PerfectEffects 9. #deathvalley   #HDR   #On1Pics   #landscapephotography   Death Valley Workshops

Free Perfect Effects 9 for 500px Members Are you interested in trying more black and white conversions with more flexibility?   If you're a 500px member, you may be eligible for a free copy of on1  Perfect Effects 9 software to give yourself more options for black and white conversion (as well as many color effects as well).  Here's my blog post today on the offer: http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/2015/03/05/500px-offers-free-onone-perfect-effects-9-to-members/ I used Perfect Effects 8 to convert this photo “Moon Rising by Half Dome” to black and white.  See it on 500px: https://500px.com/photo/100906373?utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=nativeshare&utm_content=web&utm_source=500px   #blackandwhitephotography   #on1pics   #Yosemite   #500px   www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com https://500px.com/photo/100906373?utm_medium=googleplus&utm_campaign=nativeshare&utm_content=web&utm_source=500px

Mammatus Clouds Over Bodie Don't forget to consider black and white conversion for some of your digital photos.  I'm thinking of conducting a black and white workshop in Bodie this year.  Contact me if that sounds interesting to you. If you're a 500px member, you may be eligible for a free copy of on1 Perfect Effects 9 software to give yourself more options for black and white conversion (as well as many color effects as well).  Here's my blog post today on the offer: http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/2015/03/05/500px-offers-free-onone-perfect-effects-9-to-members/ I used Perfect Effects 8 to convert this image to black and white.  I'll start adding more of the images I processed with PE to an album here on G+:  https://plus.google.com/photos/+JeffreySullivan/albums/6122821450547274577 #blackandwhitephotography   #bodiestatehistoricpark   #photographyworkshop   #on1pics   Bodie Photo Workshops  www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com/blog