Well, it's a nice picture; you seem to have conquered the tonal-range issues with the tools available. I suspect it might benefit from punching up the greens, either with the vibrance control or maybe just a nudge on the green slider. -T
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > The dynamic range of the K-5 is amazing, but making use of it is not trivial. > Both yesterday and today, I got some photos of the river gorge, with some > cloud action going on in the background. When I shot them, I bracketed, but > rather than using photoshops HDR feature I fussed, fumbled and frobbed the > controls in lightroom to try to keep detail in both the sky and the valley. > > I'm almost satisfied with the way that this one came out: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/5559355279/in/set-72157626352846496/ > > The challenge seems to come from there basically being a bi-modal > distribution, where I've got a lot of pixels all of the way to the right of > the histogram, and another bunch all of the way to the left. I almost need a > tone curve that is very steep on the right 10% of the values, and then more > or less linear to that point, or possibly also fairly steep on the left, > flattish in the middle and steep on the right. > > I'm sure that the way to do this involves both exposing to get the shot, and > then some specific tricks in lightroom to pull out the data. Any suggestions > folks? Or am I much better off just using photoshops HDR tools, and getting > a wide bracket? > > I did try putting the camera in bracket (about two stops), setting the meter > on the sky in Manual, composing, taking my bracketed shots, then hitting the > green button to bracket on the foreground, so I've got two sets of bracketed > shots, one for the sky and one for the foreground. > > > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
