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Subject: Re: [OM] IMGs: Desert Botanical Garden
From: Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 15:02:37 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
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>Flash no
>Contrast and/or black slider certainly - then adjust midtones and  
>highlights to taste
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     I did apply an 81A and then 81B warming filter by way of FilterSim, but it 
did not help matters much.  I maybe should have encroached on overexposing the 
image and later correcting back.  

     As you saw in the last photo, there was quite a bit of overcast, which was 
a few thousand feet thick.  We rarely see this out here, and I can only say 
that I was unprepared for such conditions and failed to take proper measures to 
adjust for the adverse light.  I'm going to see if I have a set of 62mm metal 
stacking caps so I can take a short set of warming and cooling filters in 
addition to the polariser.

     In striking contrast, we now have clear skies and this weekend the 
temperature will be in the mid-70s.  Ideal weather for our group cycling 
expedition from here to Tucson and back, a distance of some 240 miles.



>;-)
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>Ph
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>Le 15 janv. 15 à 22:43, Chuck Norcutt a écrit :
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>> No, I don't think a flash was necessary.  The light level was pretty  
>> low and a bit on the blue side.  I think a little bit of extra  
>> contrast would make a big difference.  If you want to brighten them  
>> a bit and move then a little toward yellow that would probably also  
>> help.  But they're not daylight balanced pictures... and they don't  
>> need to be. That light has its own useful characteristics.
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
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>>
>> On 1/15/2015 9:16 AM, Chris Trask wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The gray weather of the approaching cold front has left your photos
>>>> lacking in contrast.  They could do with a little boost.
>>>>
>>>
>>>      Yes, you're right.  When I reviewed these after returning home  
>>> I realised that I should have used the flash at the lowest power  
>>> setting to as to provide a more sufficient light spectrum.  They  
>>> came out looking like something out of "The Lathe of Heaven" where  
>>> Steve Orr turned everyone into a uniform gray so as to eliminate  
>>> racial discrimination.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>> When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
>>>      - Hunter S. Thompson
>>>
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Chris

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