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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 67 |
Nov 20 |
Comment |
Got it. Reduce that out-of-focus foreground and darken the background a bit. Thanks for the comments and happy holidays. Stay safe! |
Nov 28th |
| 67 |
Nov 20 |
Comment |
I'm always inspired by an eagle shot like this. You might try selectively lightening the eagle, increasing the white point, and adding as much sharpness as you can without getting too grainy. All with the adjustment brush in Lightroom or equivalent. Thanks. |
Nov 18th |
| 67 |
Nov 20 |
Comment |
Hi Larry, another masterful waterfall image. It has a softness and warmth that I really like. At first look it struck me as maybe a little too warm, but no it's just fine. I continue to be inspired by your approach to photography. Thanks! |
Nov 14th |
| 67 |
Nov 20 |
Comment |
Hi Jason. That's a beautiful waterfall. Just looking at your image and thinking what I would do in Lightroom. I would bring down the highlights and lighten the shadows overall. If needed I would use the adjustment brush to darken the bright sunlit area and lighten the dark area on the other side of the image. Be sure to set feathering to 100% so it's nice and smooth. I would try lowering the contrast and maybe increasing the clarity to see what that looks like. Then I would use the brush again to selectively increase sharpness, being careful not to sharpen the water. Nice image as-is, but just some ideas to try. |
Nov 9th |
| 67 |
Nov 20 |
Reply |
Larry, thank you for supporting my never-ending crusade for mushroom rights. I don't know if my process for shooting focus stacks is the correct one, it just happens to be mine. I do not have in-camera focus stacking, so started using Helicon along with Lightroom, initially with the LR stand-alone version. I now have Photoshop through my Adobe subscription but never use it, so I can't compare Helicon with any other way to do focus stacking. I set the camera on "ISO select" where I select the aperture and shutter speed and the camera selects the ISO. I manually focus each shot in the stack using the "live view" and "focus peaking" features of the K-1. I start at the closest point and "eyeball" the focus trying not to leave gaps between shots. Sometimes I use a focusing rail if I think eyeballing isn't good enough. I usually shoot at about f5.6 and select a shutter speed that gives me close to the lowest ISO (100 for my camera). I download the images to LR and make no initial adjustments. Helicon provides a link to LR that lets me transfer the files in RAW format (my camera uses DNG). I allow Helicon to do its work. When I save the file, Helicon automatically transfers the merged image back to LR as a RAW file. I then do my usual processing routine in LR. |
Nov 5th |
| 67 |
Nov 20 |
Reply |
Thank you so much for stopping by. I appreciate the kind comments! |
Nov 5th |
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