Larry, I am just curious - when you metered the valley, were you metering the trees or the river? For me, the clouds and the river are the two dramatic elements, the trees are just there as filler/framing. I suspect that if you had a 1° spot-meter reading from the water, it would have given an EV even lower than you got from (apparently) the average of the valley. All of which is to say that your challenge in effectively dealing with the wide dynamic range may be even bigger than you presented it.
stan On Mar 25, 2011, at 10:36 PM, Tim Bray wrote: > 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.
