Mark Metternich
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A huge thank you to everyone! I hope you are all doing well.
LovePG wrote:
Amazing color and detail. Your work electrifies the forum, Mark.
Oh wow, thank you very much! I appreciate the encouragement! All the best to you!
dakel wrote:
Amazing photo Mark. The colour and clarity are incredible. The light is gorgeous. The clouds look long exposure like!
Huge thank you. I really appreciate it! Crazy conditions!
Jim Dockery wrote:
Beautiful.
Thank you very much Jim! I appreciate the encouragement.
Rajan Parrikar wrote:
Mark - as is your signature, this is an immersive image. Bravo.
Yay!! Thank you Rajan! Your work is always a pleasure to see as well.
MTGFender wrote:
Masterful!
Thanks for sharing!
Pramote
My pleasure. Thank you. Keep up the great work yourself!
Scott Stoness wrote:
Fantastic composition and processing. Great photo. Worthy of hanging on a wall - and that is my highest complement. Thanks for sharing. Scott
Wow Scott, your highest compliment! Coming from you that means a lot! It will be huge! Maybe a 60X90” 1200ppi Lumachrome HD from Nevada Art Printers!
Mr.Gale wrote:
Very nice!
Mr.G
Thank you very much Mr Gale! 🙂
keepclicking wrote:
Mark, great image and glad to see you posting again👍🏻
Thank you so very much! I am so glad to get out from underneath my workshops and post processing work for nature/landscape photography galleries for a second! It is a privilege to do this work more than full time. Even when I barely have time to work on my own images, I get to keep pushing my skill sets further and further for others for top class others gallery enlargements and also share the skills, which I love to give back!
ratherfish wrote:
Cool image Mark! Love the composition and color and the expert use of that ultra-wide lens! Steve 
Thank you Steve! I am a 11-24 junkie for sure! I really try to teach people to walk around with it and put it everywhere, while using it to see as you are walking around (without the tripod) to find angles the human eye/brain could never see. That is what makes it so fun to me. Put it on the ground, put it in holes, work scenes like crazy… Then if you find something surprisingly special, THEN go get the tripod!
Matt Kerby wrote:
Wow!
Beautiful!
Thank you very much Matt. All the best to you and your family!
dbehrens wrote:
Just a nice comp/capture all around emphasizing that an overly dramatic sky is not a requirement for a wall-hanger.
That, in addition to your pioneering of off the beaten path locations and knowledge of Adobe PS/LR, which continues to amaze me! 
Dave
PS: And that 11-24 lens seems to be one of your better investments in photography, regardless of camera body!
Yay! That means a TON to me Dave!! Especially coming from you! The SW is L O A D E D with brand new locations no one has ever photographed. We just have to get off the beaten trails and study Google Earth like crazy!!!
Oh yes! The Canon EF 11–24mm lens came out in 2015 (for like 3000+ $$$) and I have shot maybe 80% of my work with it from then up until I moved to FL. I still use it a lot! Funny thing (not funny actually) I have dropped it and broke it more than twice, and had to pay nearly its cost for its repairs more than once! Ouch!
Blessings!
vieri wrote:
Beautiful composition, Mark! Best regards,
Vieri
Thank you very much Vieri! All the best!
Bill Gass wrote:
Very beautiful picture and the work you did to it.
Love how you can see different faces in the rocks.
Thank you! Oh cool! I did not see the faces! Where?
Not nearly as much work was necessary after the aforementioned set up.
Chuck D wrote:
Mark, that is beautiful!!! The lone green bush is a nice touch. Thanks for sharing places we can only dream of visiting.
Thank you so very much Chuck! I can take you here one day! There are literally thousands of possibilities, and I have never seen anyone even go here or produce a photo from here.
Blessings to you and your family from me and mine!
gordon l wrote:
Great work here. I like this image as one of the best you've produced. Really shines.
Wow, yay! Huge encouragement. Thank you very much! I appreciate it!
Sunny Sra wrote:
Mark,
Excellent shot! Yeah..ive been waiting on that tutorial for 4 years now....and counting.
Hope all is well with you.
Thank you!  . Yeah, I know. But it is literally almost done! Stay tuned!
webby521 wrote:
Those formations look so unique, never seen anything like them. Great shot
Thank you very much! Yes, no one photographs here (I know the locals). AND there are thousands of incredible formations that are as good as anything you will ever see in the SW out here! I might do VERY small private groups (under strict non disclosure - and people I can trust) this and next year. All the best!
seanderson wrote:
Nice capture Mark. I'll have to look into the nuances of the Curves tool more!
Thank you very much! Oh man, it has now become so much more than nuances. We can now (with Adobes killer update) literally make 4 easy, separate curve masks in Camera Raw, to a Linear Raw File (our real unadulterated raw file - instead of the actually not good Adobe profiles) and in just a couple of minutes build our images from the ground up, with the very most important, quality producing and influential adjustments as our starting point. When we do this, the benefits are absolutely revolutionary in every way. The time to edit our images is cut down massively, and then when we do slide the sliders in Lightroom or Camera Raw, WOW they respond incredibly! And to an image that can be almost done before even starting! Everyone who starts doing this will see the immediate and MASSIVE benefits. When we do not do this, what we are essentially doing is starting with an Adobe profile (which bakes into the raw file a laundry list of adjustments, many of which are damaging, cannot be known or undone, and we are trying to fight against and fix an image from the top down, which makes no sense at all. The 4 most important and influential adjustments a Raw file ever goes through are now done by us specifically based on the very specific and very unique needs of the individual photo. Instead of a generic adulterated image, we make everything custom to the image needs!
1. Gamma Curve (a simple curve shape that redistributes the linear original data to how our eyes see light, and multiplies the quality of the entire photo).
2. End points curve. This sets our white and black points so we have no clipping, but great contrast.
3. Midtone curve (overall brightness of the image based on its unique needs) by just pulling the middle of the curve up or down.
4. The global contrast curve. This shapes the global contrast exactly based on the needs of the image!
When this is done to a Linear Raw file (and it only takes a couple minutes) you literally have ALL the data your camera captured (you DO NOT when you use an Adobe Profile), and you have the absolute best starting point to begin making whatever adjustments you want to to the image - BUT the heaviest lifting, is done already! WHY we have not had this ability in the past, so easily with Camera Raw/Lightroom, blows my mind! It changes everything for the much better! Have fun!
A 2.2 Gamma Curve - but can become more custom
A very general end points curve - but needs to be custom
A very general mid-tones curve - but needs to be custom
A very general contrast curve - but needs to be custom
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