On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 05:57:21AM -0500, Bruce Walker wrote: > Wow, some really delightful shots in there, Larry; especially from the > Big Sur and Death Valley sets. > > You really should spend some time with local contrast enhancement on > some of those landscapes to make the colour and contrast pop more. > They are very well framed but look a bit flat.
Interesting thought. I had considered bumping up the contrast, but that made thepicture look a bit fake, silly me, I hadnt thought about just doing with the adjustment brush. > > > On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 3:17 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > I just spent slightly less than a week on the road. I took my usual > > metric shitload of photos, a lot of which were just happy snaps and > > many were for stitching into panoramas if/when I have a chance. > > > > I did get a few that didn't suck too badly. > > > > I drove down to LA on Sunday by way of Big Sur, the weather was beautiful, > > and > > the roads were clogged with tourists. In the future, I think that I'll do > > my best to avoid Big Sur on weekends. I managed to spend a few hours at > > Limekiln, which was one of my favorite places to go as a kid. > > > > Big Sur: > > http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157639424720424/ > > > > We spent our first night in the desert in Mojave. That evening we tried to > > find the site of Nowak's opal mine, were we used to hunt for fire opal > > when I was a kid. We spent some time driving dirt roads in Lorry, my > > Dodge van. I had fun, Candace didn't really enjoy the off road experience. > > > > I tried to use my astrotracer and the tamron 300/2.8 to get some photos > > of Andromeda but failed miserably. I did play a bit with my Korean fisheye > > though. > > > > The next morning we had brunch at the Voyager Cafe at the Mojave spaceport. > > That evening we drove as far a Lone Pine, which turned out to be far more > > scenic than we expected and we ended up spending an extra day there. > > > > Desert: > > http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157639424755274/ > > > > The following day we drove out Death Valley, getting in a little shooting > > before sunset. I had fun trying to catch the new moon setting. Didn't > > quite get the shot I wanted, but it was still fun. We spent the night in > > Beatty Nevada, about 45 minutes out of the park, and surprisingly > > picturesque. That night we did some night photography in the ghost town > > of Rhyolite. I played a bit with my astrotracer. > > > > Most of Friday was spent at Zabriskie Point, which is ridiculously scenic. > > We got there in the mid afternoon. I think that for a lot of the photos, > > the lighting would be best in the morning. The walk down to the valley > > floor is much easier than it looks, and well worth it, especially in the > > canyons to the left of the lookout, looking towards the desert. It's > > very easy to get beautiful shots of the gorgeous rock formations, but > > a bit more challenging to get shots that aren't monontonously beautiful, > > all looking pretty much alike. > > > > I did manage to get a little bit lost on my way back out of the > > canyon, and climbing out of canyons, in the dark (albeit with headlamp), > > up steep dirt cliffs, when overweight and out of shape was a special > > kind of fun. > > > > Death Valley: > > http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157639424829284/ > > > > Candice has posted a couple of sets from her trip: > > Mojave: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ccmonty/sets/72157639413836205/ > > Red Rock Canyon: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ccmonty/sets/72157639412196866/ > > > > If I have some spare time, I may go back and process and post some more > > photos from the trip. > > > > -- > > Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc > > > > > > -- > > 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. > > > > -- > -bmw > > -- > 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. -- Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc -- 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.
