You ought to try that with a RAW image for best results. On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Don Guthrie <[email protected]> wrote: > 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: >> >> Message: 3 >> 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) >> Message-ID:<[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >> >> 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 > > > > -- > 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.
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