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JimFox wrote:
Thanks, I am glad you like the first one! I have never used HDR in my life...  Manual layer masks is the only way I would increase DR. The D800 helps increase the DR and helps eliminate a lot of that too. But certainly scenes like this need the sky to adjusted separately from the ground layer since even the D800 has less DR than our eyes do. As for the whites, for me at least they don't appear like HDR. They have a bit of a blue cast which is normal as the whites will reflect the sky which was blue. I did leave it slightly blue to keep that cooler nighttime feel. On shots like these, it's super easy to make the whites totally white, but every time I try that, the whites end up looking unnatural to me. So I will usually leave a bit of a color cast.
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It wasn't so much the color cast which is fine, it's true that things in nature are often not truly pure white, mostly various slightly off-whites, as the relative intensities that felt a bit odd. The clouds and something about the snow don't seem bright enough compared to the pine needles, although close. Perhaps it is entirely realistic but it seems surprising that the clouds would be darker than the snow on the mountain (in the second one) and that the snow and water would be so much darker than the rocks and such, although it's all very subtle. It's a tricky thing though (as playing around with it in Viveza now myself makes especially clear  ).
Still looks cool though even if just a trace not quite natural and the scene and comp and all are great!
(It must be nice having all that nice D800 DR at hand. Perhaps some day we in Canon land will have that too.... maybe 2035? 
But we do have access to the Samyang. That really has got to be the biggest bargain out there! I mean 14mm with no CA, sharp to the edges (on FF!), sharper than even most L lenses in the center. Tons of distortion, but that doesn't always matter quite as much for landscape and you can correct as much as needed (at loss of a bit of resolution granted). I don't shot UWA all that often so I could never really seem to justify a wide lens but then the $300 Bower 14mm came along and not is it justifiable, other than for extreme distortion, the performance is out of this world!)
Edited on Aug 06, 2013 at 05:55 PM · View previous versions
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