You know I like them both in their own way. The 1st one has a certain
drama b&w high contrast. But I appreciate the information in the
improved version which changes the subject to include the pool and people.
On 9/29/14, 1:00 PM, [email protected] wrote:
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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 12:25:59 -0500
From: Charles Robinson<[email protected]>
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List<[email protected]>
Subject: PESO: Washington Monument (and in praise of the dynamic range
on the K5)
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I can't say enough good things about what you can do with pulling up detail
from the shadows in the K5.
Saturday night, the wife and I pedaled around Washington DC taking photos of the
monuments. One shot I did, I figured "well, the contrast is too much but I'll just
expose for the brights and see what else I can get in post".
So, I spot-metered on the Washington monument, and took this 13-second exposure at f/9
and ISO 100. As you can see, the image "straight out of the camera" is not
much to write home about:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/cpbyheptagcykqj/K5__4359-original.jpg?dl=0
However, in LR I did only two (very-drastic) adjustments:
1. I jammed the exposure slider all the way up (+5 stops)
2. I pulled the highlights all the way down (-100)
The result is this. Not high art, but a good-enough documentation of what I
saw when I was there:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7djxrsj2pwcfl0e/K5__4359-processed.jpg?dl=0
There is some mottling up in the sky due to it being a low-quality JPEG export
(and there's also a speck of dust on my darned sensor!) but still - wow.
-Charles
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