I always wanted to try one of these, so when I was at Zion, I saw this opportunity. This is what I consider a technically challenging shot of no particular artistic merit.
Not sure what input is required for this. Maybe how to do it? How to process it? Why did I even take it? Why did I post it? The last is because of two reason, the forum is slow and I am out of stuff to post.
Looks a bit dull in the leaves. Perhaps a bit of crop, a mid-tone bump, a smidgeon of sharpening, bumping the saturation for yellow and red to make the leaves pop, a bit of a crop, and some noise reduction:
With the sun backlight, and the open sky being behind the leaves as well ... much of the lighting on the leaves is going to be diffuse (viewed from camera side), or translucent.
Diffuse lighting by nature is low contrast ... hence Karen's "bumps" to bring it up a notch. I'm not seeing much CA (at this size), what lens did you use?
Also, I'm a bit surprised by the exposure @ Sunny 22, which would suggest an underexposure from the usual Sunny 16. But, then again, with as many blown red channels as I had during my trip ... the light really must be stronger there.
Interesting that the tree trunks are exposed as well as they are given the backlight. Was the ground/surface below very light in color to reflect light onto the trunks? I presume this was a single shot exposure?
RustyBug wrote:
With the sun backlight, and the open sky being behind the leaves as well ... much of the lighting on the leaves is going to be diffuse (viewed from camera side), or translucent.
Diffuse lighting by nature is low contrast ... hence Karen's "bumps" to bring it up a notch. I'm not seeing much CA (at this size), what lens did you use?
Also, I'm a bit surprised by the exposure @ Sunny 22, which would suggest an underexposure from the usual Sunny 16. But, then again, with as many blown red channels as I had during my trip ... the light really must be stronger there....Show more →
This is the new 24-70 f2.8 mk2 which is a pretty good lens for flare. I stopped down to get the star burst effect. It is also very good at CA.
And here is one I tried to do with Karen's version in mind. I hate f22, at least 50 dust bunnies, but I sent the camera in last week and now it probably only has 20 at f22.
