Last night I pulled the birthday present cop out of letting a friend choose a photo (or two) out of my portfolio. One of the prints was one I did several years, and generations of lightroom ago. To replace the print, I reprocessed the photo. After I got the print back from costco, I went back and massaged it a bit more.
I was driving home from Texas and pulled over to take a nap. When I woke up (probably about 2:30 rather than the 12:30 the exif shows because of my not resetting time zones) there was lightning off in the distance. I set up my camera on a tripod with my 77/1.8 and started taking 20 second exposures. For one of the exposures, I got several lightning strikes. The photo "straight out of the camera" was pretty cool: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/13915457390/in/set-72157644505096665 Having Lightroom automatically adjust the exposure made a definite improvement: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/14078952556/in/set-72157644505096665 My first reprocessing attempt gave it a lot more pop: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/13915393947/in/set-72157644505096665 But, I wasn't entirely satisfied with it. After a bit more work, I've got: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/13915456818/in/set-72157644505096665 K20D, FA77 f/1.8 20 seconds I’m still not entirely satisfied with it, but I think that I’ve made some improvments. Further suggestions are most welcome. The above post was motivated because a friend talked me into joining her photo critique group on facebook. There’s one woman out in White Plains who keeps asking “Why do I need to shoot raw and learn computers to post process? Why can’t I just get it right in my camera and have it turn out right like I used to do with my Leica M4?”. -- 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.
