Mark Metternich
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Danpbphoto wrote:
Mark your expertise in editing and composition are "top shelf"! This is wonderful.
Now do you have a website or YouTube that explains your workflow in creating this gem?
Dan
"The Ultimate Quality Workflow - Adobe Lossless Raw on Raw Layers" (complete 7.4 hour course, from A-Z) has now been out for about a month and the feedback on it has been nothing short of awesome.
Thank you very much for your encouragement! And all the very best to you and your own work! 🙏🏼
dbehrens wrote:
5D Mk2, ISO 4000? I'd say your lossless Raw layer processing is breathing new life into your 5D files! BTW nice capture of the WP tree!
Thank you VERY MUCH Dave! It is the largest quality game-changer since Raw Editing came out! The feedback on the full course has been extremely satisfying knowing that so many people are making massive jumps forward in the quality of their editing as well. It also totally opens up the idea of processing old "legacy files"! I have one from the Canon 10D I took in Glacier, that was done all wrong, bad lens too, and cropped to about 5 megapixels, and it is now a 60-72" master print file ready for Lumachrome HD! 😁
Thank you, everyone, and Sorry about the delays, I took a month off in Oregon, then I had my FL Workshop and my 5th year anniversary! Now I'm back at it... 😁
junglialoh wrote:
Beautiful composition - impressive work
Thanks, man!!
fotografur wrote:
Very cool!
Yo dude, thank you!! 👍🏼. I hope you had a nice 4th! 🎉
tommarshman wrote:
Having recently moved to AZ, I see the potential in the evening sky just in silly pictures of signs taken at twilight. Thank you for taking the desert sky to a whole different level.
That sounds like a great idea! Idea: maybe try stacking some ND filters and get a thunderhead behind your sign as it is building, but at about 5-7 minutes. Sometimes the clouds turn out looking like puffy SQUARES! 😁
douter wrote:
That should be printed large and hung on a wall, Mark!
Douglas
Thank you very much, Douglas! That is always the goal of my work. To produce a top-quality gallery print. Thank you for the encouragement! 👍🏼
J. Pow wrote:
Very cool!
Joel
Thank you, Joel! All the best to you and your work!
Bill Gass wrote:
Love it.
Huge thank you, Bill! All the best to you and your family.
girvincn wrote:
Beautiful work, Mark, as always. The sharp detail throughout, even at f/4, is impressive.
Just curious - what has brought about this recent spate of shots from a decade ago and/or with the 5D Mark II? Finding old gems on your hard drives you'd forgotten about? Or putting a new editing technique to the test on older files?
Thank you very much! I really appreciate the encouragement!
GREAT questions.
I get asked a lot about how I manage to get the sharpness and cleanliness in my files even from high ISO and older cameras, and various f/stops... I have been pioneering sharpening/noise reduction and other techniques for about 15 years now, some of which I teach in my "The Ultimate Mastering Fine Art Printmaking Workshop" once a year (*next year in Florida). For print vs web/social media, some of the techniques are very different but NONE of them are push-button software. They are all proprietary custom techniques that usually blow people's minds. It is a most incredible time to be a photographer!
As to the question about processing what some might call "legacy files" or older files. It is a combination of things. The biggest of which is the fact that doing this professionally now for the better part of 2 decades, there were times in which I was photographing as much as 300 days a year unhindered, as an investment. So I have a backlog of many, many hard drives of folders never processed, many folders I have not seen in years. That is the biggest thing. So I often just go wandering through them and come across folders that I have totally forgotten about (sometimes all the way back to about 2002ish). Then when I find something that inspires me, I pull a copy of it into another folder on my main computer drive entitled "TO WORK ON". Then they sit there until I feel re-inspired to work on them... many times in spurts of inspiration...
Lastly, yes, with our always developing skill sets, and new technological breakthroughs in quality processing, that also inspires me to re-process, or process images for the first time that now can be done so much better. In fact, some of my best work, when I took them, the moments were so special to me that I literally felt intimidation to try to finish them, or even work on them at all. Sometimes I want to wait until the moment and skill sets are there to do the images justice.
I appreciate your question because these are some things I put into a category of photo processing theory, and in my workshops sometimes we have some great discussions about. Lastly, if you have not seen Robert Park and myself interviewing very inspiring professional landscape photographer Marlon Holden, on my YouTube page. You might enjoy it. His processing theory is RADICAL! 🙏🏼
obudu wrote:
Love the composition!
Yay! Thank you! It is awesome when high clouds move fast but there is no wind on the ground! Adding a full or nearly full moon can get really weird/surreal like here...
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