John: Fantastic series. I love every one of them. I had stopped here at the end of my PNW trip a year ago, and I loved the spot, but didn't have the fall colors. These are just wonderful. You captured them perfectly.
Beautiful work John!
These are testament to the fact that the vision/skill of the person behind the camera is more important than the camera itself. With all the debates about the merits/shortcomings of the latest, greatest, 25 MP bodies... it's refreshing to see images like yours captured with an 8MP 20D.
Cheers,
Scott
I'm so confused. I can't believe I didn't comment when this was first posted? In any event, an extraordinary set of images. A very special place that you have done a very special job in revealing.
The photomatix tone mapping plug-in does an analysis of color range and allows you to manipulate that range is sometimes useful ways. It really is great at bringing out texture and limiting shadows on certain types of lighting. It's horrible at skies and at mid range tonality where it pushes them to extremes.
So I use the tone mapping plug-in on a duplicate layer, hide the entire layer and then paint back in the details that I liked from the plug-in.
There is a free demo version at the photomatix web site.
Thanks again for all the comments !!
sadja wrote:
Hi john,
Wonderful, colorful gallery. My fav is #1. It has that 'special' glow. Last shot is great, too, with the swirl of leaves.
Care to elaborate what Photomatix tone mapping adds that either LR or PS tone mapping can't do?
