I have been playing with the new LR6 tools and rescued an older picture to try the new HDR feature. The results are impressive and natural looking while increasing dynamic range quite a bit.
Taken with A7R and TS-E 17mm f/4L. The lens was tilted for expanded DOF and shifted for better framing and distortion control.
For those shooting with the A7R and Canon lenses, there is a new free tool called LensChanger which corrects the names for Canon lenses in Lightroom and shooting with the A7 series cameras.
(See the metadata below the image is showing the correct lens name now)
Fred, you are a Death Valley Master, and this one is no exception. Great control of some difficult tonalities here to retain the realism of the image. I looked for those circles for two days and never found them.
Gorgeous image Fred. Love the details in the foreground. I have to ask is the ground really purple? The sunset and sky wouldn't give off a purple light so I am curious.
Fred Miranda wrote:
I have been playing with the new LR6 tools.
Rescued an older picture to try the new HDR feature. It's very subtle and increases dynamic range quite a bit.
Taken with A7R and TS-E 17mm f/4L. The lens was tilted for expanded DOF and tilted for better framing and distortion control.
For those shooting with the A7R and Canon lenses, there is a new free tool called LensChanger which corrects the names for Canon lenses in Lightroom and shooting with the A7 series cameras.
(See the metadata below the image is showing the correct lens name now)
Very nice Fred and I am glad to see an HDR here. I just got the new LR and played with HDR myself, works pretty good.
JimFox wrote:
Hey Fred,
What a very cool shot! Sure love those round tiles. This looks great and glad to hear that you are liking the updates in LR.
Jim
I was looking for bracketed images to test the new HDR function and found a couple ones I somehow overlooked. For this one, I ended up using only one frame anyways as the light was very subtle. Next time you are heading to DV, let me know and we can meet up on this location.
Best,
Fred
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Jeffrey wrote:
Fred, you are a Death Valley Master, and this one is no exception. Great control of some difficult tonalities here to retain the realism of the image. I looked for those circles for two days and never found them.
Thanks Jeffrey. You know how it is...right place at right time. Sometimes we get lucky with that!
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Scott Kroeker wrote:
Gorgeous image Fred. Love the details in the foreground. I have to ask is the ground really purple? The sunset and sky wouldn't give off a purple light so I am curious.
Thanks Scott,
There no much purple on my monitor, I get more of an orange hue.
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Kee Woo Rhee wrote:
I wrote my feedback to Fred's wonderful image from the Death Valley right after I saw the photo.
But my feedback is not seen here. What happened?
My apologies Kee. I had posted the wrong image at first (without my LR corrections). I didn't know you had replied to it.
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psharvic wrote:
Well done Fred. Thanks for the tip on LensChanger.
LensChanger is absolutely great for keeping our EXIF lens data consistent. Great tool or A7R users shooting with Canon glass.
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darbo wrote:
spectacular.
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JimKied wrote:
Love it Fred! The detail in the tiles is amazing. Do you find Lightroom 6 to be faster?
Thanks. I found it faster with my system but only on the Develop mode. (Mac Pro Late 2013)
Import images and Library/Catalog looks about the same.
Fred
ben egbert wrote:
Very nice Fred and I am glad to see an HDR here. I just got the new LR and played with HDR myself, works pretty good.
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Thanks Ben. I have been playing with numerous photos and the new LR6 HDR. I really like it because it pretty much extends the dynamic range without adding that "HDR look" to the image. This one in particular didn't benefit from the bracketing I did and therefore I just edited one file. (The A7R has incredible DR)
nburwell wrote:
Composition and exposure are spot on, Fred. Nice work!
-Nick
Thank you Nick!
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dwa652 wrote:
Very cool image. The perspective is fantastic. The colors work well together too.
LR6 and Death Valley are both on my "to-do" list ...
It's a great place for bracketing shots as long as the wind cooperates.
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Dustin Gent wrote:
this is a really spectacular image!
Thanks Dustin!
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chasphoto2015 wrote:
love the picture and the fire sunset is awesome !
