A single shot of “Plasma Light” in the unprecedented beauty of the Pacific Northwest as we chased a weather system to the area. We got the goods and our skin is still glowing red! 😳
Technicals for the techie minded:
Camera Settings:
Sony A7R2
f/9
ISO:100
Shutter: 1/4th
Canon 11-24@11mm.
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*Processing:
A single Raw File processed using Adobes The Ultimate Gold Standard Quality Workflow: 32-BIT RAW LAYERS! Nothing compares to the quality of this new technology of totally lossless editing! Color, Black and Whites, Night Photography... And Adobe has announced they are developing it full fledged! Any questions, feel free message me! 👍🏼 I could not be more excited about it and I have been pioneering in it for maybe 4 years now. It's a real game changer for those who want to keep moving forward!
I have to apologize again! I am sorry for sounding like a broken record, but even after a whole slew of personal family tragedies (mom passes suddenly/unexpectedly, then my beloved sister (only in her 50’s) then my cousin… I started getting back on this forum that I love with a little consistency, but then now my greatest personal mentor/counselor in all my life suddenly found out she has stage 4 terminal cancer, AND my WIFE was rushed to the hospital ER and had surgery and just got home and is now resting. When it rains it pours! Last month I took a personal vacation to get my head screwed back on as the toll of all this (and more I have not shared) finally had me in some level of grief and burnout. THE GOOD NEWS is that I am well, keeping faith and finally getting back to everything. Over 1000 emails behind and a workshop coming up in 2 weeks!
Anyway, I’ll try again… I’m glad to see the inspiring work here, and I look forward to getting back to interaction and posting myself. So much new stuff is in the works.
Thank you for your understanding!
another_mikey wrote:
Mark,
Fantastic work, as always. Still interested in hearing more about the 32 bit workflow at some point.
Best Regards,
ML
Thank you so much Mike! I have had so many requests about this that I went ahead and made a FREE video Tutorial on it, I hope my video editor has it done by next week. It is absolutely incredible and Adobe recently did something new they have never done before making it possible to access some other companies superior algorithms as a Raw DNG that is making the whole thing just a quantum leap forward in terms of quality adjustments. Nothing can touch it. It blows my mind how Adobe has dropped the ball totally on announcing this to the public! I finally have figured out why, but it still does not make sense. Except that they do not cater to announcing it to the fine art quality minded folks. But they have given us the best tools available now and almost no one knows about it.
srabin wrote:
Great color and perspective. I’ve found that my 11-24 is a bit soft toward the edges- when printed large it’s noticeable. How’s yours?
Steve
Thank you very much Steve. I appreciate the encouragement. Yes, overall that lens rates pretty dang high for quality. But YES the corners can be a little softer at 11mm due to fall off. *But, with some proprietary techniques Robert Park and I have innovated (and teach) in the sizing, sharpening, printing… area, we are able to make it a total non issue.
When I get it done I’ll post it to my Youtube page, but I just took a client's 10-12 BAD megapixels of the Napali Coastline, the image was hand held with an OLD camera and subpar lens, even with handshake, and not the best f/stop (lots of blur in the edges) and made it a hyper detailed 10 foot fine art Lumachrome HD print! While working on it I actually stumbled onto innovating another new technique that is a game changer for enlargements. It is totally outside the box, but so good (and it is not any one push button software) that I know some will claim I am not being honest when they see the results. This image had NO detail in the corners (and it was the green forest on those mountains shot from about a mile away out of a helicopter) but in the 10 foot fine art gallery print, you can see almost every leaf! With proprietary techniques like this, a little lens falloff becomes a non issue in almost all cases.
Doc25 wrote:
Gorgeous.
Huge thank you George.
junglialoh wrote:
Incredible colorful texture fringe and pattern displayed by cracked and patched surface.
