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Re: [OM] ( OM ) a little bit of geography

Subject: Re: [OM] ( OM ) a little bit of geography
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:43:54 -0400
Ah, that's better.  But I'm not sure about the haze in the foreground 
hills.  I don't know if it's real or an artifact.  Oops.  I just 
realized I'm on the Krappy-Kolor laptop so no telling what it really 
looks like. :-)

Chuck Norcutt


Moose wrote:
> Brian Swale wrote:
>> The image was already highly modified.
>>
>> The foreground field vegetation should have been a greyish straw colour, 
>> after many weeks of frost. But the high contrast due to the sun and snow, 
>> gave the digicam a difficult time of it.
>>
>> I  am about to upload yet another image which is the original modified only 
>> by several resizings and mild sharpening; and you will see what I started 
>> out with. I had decided to show the hills and snow, and the rest could fend 
>> for itself.
>>   
> 
> I didn't play with color or saturation at all. Colors that were already 
> there may have become more obvious.
> 
> The less processed one is actually quite a bit easier to work with. 
> <http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/Others/BSwale/Waikerikeri-valleyo.htm>
> 
> As to the ability of the camera to deal with colour accurately, I see in 
> the EXIF that the WB is set to Custom. I don't know how you have that 
> set, but suspect a simple Daylight setting might have given better 
> colour. Any setting that adjusts to "correct" color will tend to lose 
> the special quality of the light.
> 
> As to the brightness range, there is no way shooting in JPEG is likely 
> to capture it all effectively on many digicams. Some aren't so bad, as 
> they compress, rather than clip. Here, though, much of the sky is hard 
> clipped, with large areas pure white.
> 
> I've never used an E-3, but I imagine that, like other contemporary 
> DSLRs, shooting to the right in RAW at ISO 100, here probably -2/3 to -1 
> EV, would capture the whole range. It would require bringing up the 
> shadows in conversion or post to get a pleasing result.
> 
> Or, if working on a tripod, one could simply exposure bracket and 
> combine sky from one with land from the other.
> 
> Moose
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