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Sony A7R2
f/14
0.4 (and an image 1 stop brighter for shadows)
ISO 100
Canon 11-24@11mm
Two shots for the dynamic range
One of the best displays of saturated, light I have ever seen here in maybe 100 trips.
The main shot was processed to near completion in Lightroom. Everything was good from the hottest highlights almost all the way down to the shadows. The deep shadows had a little bit too much noise for my taste, so I took the exposure bracketed (auto) longer exposure and applied all the same settings to the Raw File but then matched the luminance of the original file. Then in Photoshop Smart Object Layers using the Layer Style Blending or "Blend If" sliders in Photoshop (arguably the most powerful yet underutilized tools in all of Photoshop!), I allowed the cleaner shadows to graduate into the shadows of the original file until they were clean.
Of course, various very subtle fine-tuning and corrections were applied until nothing bugged me about the image. When teaching I call this "knocking down the worse offender" until there is nothing in the image that bugs your eye. Over the last 2 or so years, I have really been noticing how some of the very smallest, most subtle stuff (like eliminating lots of extremely minute distracting elements and specks...) or very, very subtle advanced dodging and burning techniques, or sponging... can really make an image improve over its original representation. For me, it is about keeping the techniques as subtle as possible but the build-up of nitpicking the image to death ends of making a better cleaner representation. I show this in all my classes and people are usually amazed at how such extremely small things can add up.
*BTW, some super cool announcements are coming out for those who follow me on Facebook or my newsletter! And I just put a FREE post-processing video tutorial on my YouTube Page.
All the best to you, and great light to you!
Nov 13, 2018 at 01:48 PM
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