thanks for the comments Bob and Larry. I deliberately rendered it on the dark side to capture the mood I was trying to portray - hence the midtones are intended to be a shade above black, the mist close to white, and areas of black with black silhouettes for individual trees and bits of the cliff above the nearer crater. I suspect the appearance will depend very much on your monitor settings. It looks how I intended it to look on my recently calibrated monitor here, but I can imagine results will vary on other people's monitors. Am interested in how others find it - perhaps I've gone too far with lowering the tones in the mid-range?
Alastair On 3 November 2011 15:40, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > > > On 11/2/2011 7:36 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote: >> >> Alastair, >> It's pretty dark to see what's happening. >> Looking magnified, I believe I see conifers. >> Regards, Bob S. > > I really like it, but it could use a little boost in the midtones and darker > midtones to get a bit more shadow detail. > >> >> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 9:28 PM, Alastair Robertson >> <kiwibiolog...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/vmqC1uGo6XxogK4zXBBbzQ?feat=directlink >>> >>> This is taken at Waimangu Valley - a geothermal rift valley in the >>> central North Island, New Zealand. The mist is in fact steam from two >>> crater lakes. A very interesting place to visit. >>> >>> Tech Details: K10D, F70-210 @170mm, F8.0, 1/90, ISO100 >>> >>> RAW file converted to BW and processed in Lightroom 3.5 >>> >>> Comments welcome >>> >>> Alastair >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >>> >> > > -- > Larry Colen l...@red4est.com (from dos4est) > > -- > 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.
