Really nice effort, Tim! Jack
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Bray" <[email protected]> To: "PDML" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, May 4, 2014 10:09:47 AM Subject: Re: PESO and a story, Texas Lightning Excellent! On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 12:12 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- - Tim Bray (If you’d like to send me a private message, see https://keybase.io/timbray) -- 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.
