Bravo! To you and to the makers of K5.
Bulent --------------------------------------------------------------------- http://patoloji.gen.tr http://celasun.wordpress.com/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bc_the_path/ http://photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=2226822 http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/bulentcelasun 2014-09-29 20:25 GMT+03:00 Charles Robinson <charl...@visi.com>: > I can't say enough good things about what you can do with pulling up detail > from the shadows in the K5. > > Saturday night, the wife and I pedaled around Washington DC taking photos of > the monuments. One shot I did, I figured "well, the contrast is too much but > I'll just expose for the brights and see what else I can get in post". > > So, I spot-metered on the Washington monument, and took this 13-second > exposure at f/9 and ISO 100. As you can see, the image "straight out of the > camera" is not much to write home about: > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/cpbyheptagcykqj/K5__4359-original.jpg?dl=0 > > However, in LR I did only two (very-drastic) adjustments: > > 1. I jammed the exposure slider all the way up (+5 stops) > 2. I pulled the highlights all the way down (-100) > > The result is this. Not high art, but a good-enough documentation of what I > saw when I was there: > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/7djxrsj2pwcfl0e/K5__4359-processed.jpg?dl=0 > > There is some mottling up in the sky due to it being a low-quality JPEG > export (and there's also a speck of dust on my darned sensor!) but still - > wow. > > -Charles > > -- > Charles Robinson - charl...@visi.com > Minneapolis, MN > http://charles.robinsontwins.org > http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
