On Dec 16, 2010, at 9:38 PM, Boris Liberman wrote: > Hello there. > > My friends from MD
MD? Maryland? > came for a visit and asked to be taken out south... So we did. A series of > PESOs for your critique and hopefully enjoyment. > > http://pentax-ways.blogspot.com/2010/12/peso-2010-61-negev-landscape.html > > http://pentax-ways.blogspot.com/2010/12/peso-2010-62-around-bend.html Is this one slightly crooked? > > http://pentax-ways.blogspot.com/2010/12/peso-2010-63-ein-avdat-canyon.html > > http://pentax-ways.blogspot.com/2010/12/peso-2010-64-man-and-landscape.html > > Be brutal and honest, as usual. Those are stark reminders that Israel really is, largely, a desert. They also do a good job of showing the natural beauty of the desert. They also show how hard it is to photograph in desert light. The bright sections look as if they could use bringing up the blacks, but that would plunge the shadows into utter darkness. However, I realize that you are not at liberty to wait until the perfect light for each of those shots, and I've got no idea how to do a conventional photo to handle those conditions, though I wonder if a polarizer would knock down a touch of the reflected glare, and have less effect on the landscape that's in the shade. At the risk of being hounded from the list as a blasphemer, it seems that that landscape would be great material for HDR techniques. I'm not normally a fan of HDR and tone mapping, and it is often inappropriately used, but those views could be great raw material for the technique. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
