It's hard to evaluate the technical quality at the sizes posted but there appear to be masking artifacts in both images. They are particularly noticeable in the second image around the mountain/cloud boundaries and the tree branches on the right and the cloud/mountain boundary to the left of the center tree.
Once those things are taken care of I think it comes down to what mood you want to project. First image is a little sunnier and I think it gives more of an impression of a valley in shadows with a bright but cloudy day. The second has a darker, more ominous feel that gives me a more over-all cloudy/overcast impression.
Eyeball wrote:
It's hard to evaluate the technical quality at the sizes posted but there appear to be masking artifacts in both images. They are particularly noticeable in the second image around the mountain/cloud boundaries and the tree branches on the right and the cloud/mountain boundary to the left of the center tree.
Once those things are taken care of I think it comes down to what mood you want to project. First image is a little sunnier and I think it gives more of an impression of a valley in shadows with a bright but cloudy day. The second has a darker, more ominous feel that gives me a more over-all cloudy/overcast impression....Show more →
Thanks for yourthoughtful critics. Very much appreciatated. PP of nr 2 included a many layers of masks. I tried to bring out the rocks: El Cap and the 2 t sisters. hard to make it clean. But nr 1 had a straight PP: Level, some saturation and sharpening.
Curious to see the sooc/raw to work from. I think you've got plenty to work with here. If you could post up something a bit larger (here or in PC Forum), it might be easier to see some things to recommended for possible approach.
Not that it's particularly visible at the size shown above, but you could reduce noise in the darker areas if you could lower the ISO. You ought to get away with it as the shutter speed is presently 4 / focal length. Dropping to 3 or 2 ought to be ok. At the higher ISOs what you gain in capture sharpness with the D800E is lost in noise and noise reduction far more easily than with the 12Mpx cameras like the D3s.
If nothing else you could try bracketing your shots and comparing them.
RustyBug wrote:
Jealous ... haven't been there yet (bucket list).
+1 @ Dennis.
Curious to see the sooc/raw to work from. I think you've got plenty to work with here. If you could post up something a bit larger (here or in PC Forum), it might be easier to see some things to recommended for possible approach.
you are from far awy, it is difficult to catch a good winter day. Snow comes and gone counting in hours.
Alan321 wrote:
Not that it's particularly visible at the size shown above, but you could reduce noise in the darker areas if you could lower the ISO. You ought to get away with it as the shutter speed is presently 4 / focal length. Dropping to 3 or 2 ought to be ok. At the higher ISOs what you gain in capture sharpness with the D800E is lost in noise and noise reduction far more easily than with the 12Mpx cameras like the D3s.
If nothing else you could try bracketing your shots and comparing them.
you are right about iso. I have been shooting D3 and in the last 6 months D4.
With d800e, I have found out that , go slow and steady (tripod, remote control...) are the conditions for good IQ. Here, this one was shot at 200 ISO https://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/1188694/0#11337714
John Caldwell wrote:
1 is best, although 2 might work if you control the (very evident) masks. Nice image.
John Caldwell
With nr 2 I wanted to bring out more colors, details of the background. i should as you said, take more time to control the masking process.
Next time, yes lucky me, there will be next time in yosemite for me, i will take two shots, one for front and one for back and I wiill blend them
Just use jpg compression when you save as for posting larger file size ... image size can be plenty large. I typically post around 800 or so pixels tall, but much larger have been posted plenty of times (too big gets hard to view for some screens).
