My Photo Guides

From The Early Days of G+ This album first shared on August 11, 2011 only received 51 +1s, but it had 58 shares!  Now an album is lucky to get 1/4 of the distribution of a photo post, and photo posts do not get full distribution to your contacts who opted in to see them.   The site seemed to be much more interesting under the original algorithms.  Perhaps human brain chemistry favors the unexpected, the pleasant surprise which is more likely to come form people NOT related to you as a previous friend?  That would be terribly inconvenient for a network being designed to determine and mainly distribute content to your friends and social connections that they feel you can market to. #landscapephotgoraphy   #hdrphotography   #HDR   www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com Originally shared by Jeff Sullivan In honor of Trey Ratcliff's photowalk 6:30pm at Stanford tonight, I'm sharing around 200 HDR images I produced in 2009. (Thanks in advance for shares!)

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 ...

Bridalveil Fall Reflection I'm having good luck re-processing some old Yosemite images from the 2002 - 2009 time frame, produced before some of the newer versions of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.  I'll leave many of the older images up for comparison, so I'm putting many of the newer ones on my Yosemite National Park Workshops page. #yosemitephotography   #landscapephotography   #california  Blog: www.MyPhotoGuides.com Originally shared by Yosemite National Park Workshops Bridalveil Fall in Late Summer Bridalveil Creek is spring-fed, so it isn't as dependent on spring snowmelt as some of the other waterfalls in Yosemite Valley, but its flow can still get pretty meager in dry years. This is a re-edit of a photo I took in August 2007.  I produced this new version in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 and HDRsoft Photomatix 5 (HDR) software.   #yosemitenationalpark   #hdrphotography   #photographyworkshop   www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com