Palouse Glory - FM Forums

Home · Register · Join Upload & Sell

Moderated by: Fred Miranda

FM Forum Rules
Landscape Posting Guidelines

FM Forums | Landscape Photographer | Join Upload & Sell

2 end

Archive 2018 · Palouse Glory

Mark Metternich
Offline
• • • • • •
Upload & Sell: On

p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · Palouse Glory

The Pacific Northwest may be the most diverse place to photograph landscape in the world (it is certainly arguable). I have been here for my own pleasure and taken groups more times than I can count, but for some reason, I have never processed an image from here. This was taken many years ago, and I just recently decided to develop the file. It was a ridiculously pink and colorful morning. Because it was just one client and myself we shot side by side.

Single file
Canon 5D Mark2
Canon 16mmL2 2.8
16mm
2 seconds
f/7.1
100 ISO

Techie stuff:

To avoid any graduated adjustment look (for dynamic range) I processed this as a Raw "Smart Object" (duplicated for separate sky and land masking/adjusting of the same 32-bit Raw file) in Photoshop after my initial Lightroom Adjustments.

The Master image (16 bit Tiff) is in BETA RGB, instead of ProPhoto RGB because I find ProPhoto RGB's synthetic colors (colors the eye cannot see and no printer can print) sometimes problematic in their rendering (or re-mapping) in large fine art prints (even ultra wide gamut papers like the exquisite high gloss Lumachrome HD - Nevada Art Printers - Robert Park). This is a complex subject matter (that people love to debate) but the gist is that I have completely ditched ProPhoto RGB (as my working color space) for the custom color space BETA RGB that is still ultra wide, but not so wide that it causes color/tonal problems in printing. If you want the BETA RGB profile or want to know more, simply contact me...

All the best to you and yours. Thank you for looking and Great Light to you!

Mar 05, 2018 at 09:54 AM

Vcook
Offline
• • •
Upload & Sell: Off

p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · Palouse Glory

lovely

Mar 05, 2018 at 09:59 AM

guidostow
Offline
• • •
Upload & Sell: Off

p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · Palouse Glory

Awesome image! Thanks for sharing!

Mar 05, 2018 at 10:43 AM

rparchen
Offline
• •
Upload & Sell: Off

p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · Palouse Glory

Having been to Palouse Falls more time than I can count, this is great Mark! Thanks for the additional tech info as well.

Mar 05, 2018 at 11:27 AM

prefrosh01
Offline
•
Upload & Sell: Off

p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · Palouse Glory

Your work is always very inspiring!

Thank you for sharing it.

Mar 05, 2018 at 11:53 AM

twoflower
Offline
• • •
Upload & Sell: Off

p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · Palouse Glory

Wow, that is a beauty, Mark. Absolutely perfect!
You could may be enhance the structure of just the waterfall, specifically that lower bit wherein the water is splashing down; in my opinion the action in there is amazing and it needs a bit of love.

Mar 06, 2018 at 04:01 AM

psharvic
Offline
• • • • •
Upload & Sell: On

p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · Palouse Glory

Fine work, Mark. Thanks for the info.

Mar 06, 2018 at 06:46 AM

BSPhotog
Offline
• • • •
Upload & Sell: On

p.1 #8 · p.1 #8 · Palouse Glory

It's been a few years since I lived on the Palouse, but always loved the falls. Colors are incredible on this (even viewing in a web browser). I'm sure it is a killer image in print!

Mar 06, 2018 at 10:24 AM

Kee Woo Rhee
Offline
• • • •
Upload & Sell: On

p.1 #9 · p.1 #9 · Palouse Glory

I also have been there a few times myself but this presentation of the Palouse Falls by Mark is the best one.
It is perfect in every aspects. Pleasure to look at many times!! Thanks Mark for sharing the processing details as well!! Bravo.

Mar 06, 2018 at 11:54 PM

dbehrens
Offline
• • • •
Upload & Sell: On

p.1 #10 · p.1 #10 · Palouse Glory

^^^^
What KWR said. A perfect presentation of Palouse Falls. Love the colors on my screen! Dave

Mar 07, 2018 at 12:11 AM

lostinjapan
Offline
• • • •
Upload & Sell: Off

p.1 #11 · p.1 #11 · Palouse Glory

Beautiful image, and great information on the processing.

Thanks for sharing.

Ryan

Mar 07, 2018 at 12:57 PM

Fred Miranda
Offline
Admin
Upload & Sell: On

p.1 #12 · p.1 #12 · Palouse Glory

Eye-candy Mark. Love the complementary colors and overall composition. The best I've seen from this location.
Best,
Fred

Mar 07, 2018 at 04:25 PM

dbostock
Offline
• •
Upload & Sell: Off

p.1 #13 · p.1 #13 · Palouse Glory

As Fred said, this is the best I've seen from this location. I've never stopped there because I haven't seen a good shot. This is so excellent that I'll have to make a point of heading there in June. Well done and thanks for the info on processing. Simply amazing image.

Cheers,
David

Mar 07, 2018 at 08:38 PM

kmunroe
Offline
• • • • • • •
Upload & Sell: Off

p.1 #14 · p.1 #14 · Palouse Glory

it's a beauty Mark

Mar 08, 2018 at 04:47 AM

PeterDocTog
Offline
• •
Upload & Sell: Off

p.1 #15 · p.1 #15 · Palouse Glory

That's a very nice picture.

Mar 08, 2018 at 09:26 AM

sritri
Offline
• • • •
Upload & Sell: Off

p.1 #16 · p.1 #16 · Palouse Glory

Lovely!!

Mar 08, 2018 at 10:00 AM

Markus L
Offline
• •
Upload & Sell: Off

p.1 #17 · p.1 #17 · Palouse Glory

What a beauty Mark! Thanks for the additional info as well, your posts are always so informative

Mar 08, 2018 at 11:11 AM

Prashant Verma
Offline
• •
Upload & Sell: Off

p.1 #18 · p.1 #18 · Palouse Glory

Great image and thanks for the added information!

Mar 08, 2018 at 03:11 PM

adittam
Offline
• • •
Upload & Sell: On

p.1 #19 · p.1 #19 · Palouse Glory

Gorgeous photo, and I love reading the narratives about your photos. Thanks for taking the time to write them up!

Mar 08, 2018 at 03:15 PM

juststeve
Offline
• •
Upload & Sell: Off

p.1 #20 · p.1 #20 · Palouse Glory

I have long thought a dawn photo at the falls could be special. In 20 some times there I have never had it happen. In fact, I have only had one sunset trip work out. This is special.

I have now seen your references to 32-bit smart RAW processing. I do not understand. I regularly process a given RAW file to both a highlight and shadow bias to recombine them in PS with a wee bit of luminosity masking or blend-if twiddling. But I do not see the reference to 32 bit file. Could you explain more?

Mar 10, 2018 at 10:34 PM

1 2 end
FM Forums \| Landscape Photographer \| Join Upload & Sell 1 2 end

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.