I've just returned from a short backpacking trip to the Trinity Alps (Northern California) area. Took the 5N plus: CV 15, CV 35, CV 40, CV 90. It's still a few weeks early for fall color but the area is beautiful none the less.
I might need to spend some more time with these, but here they are...
Heh. I wondered if it is just me who wants more latitude on the highlight and shadows Lightroom sliders. The Highlight slider goes all the way down on many of my landscape shots.
Jim Schemel wrote:
Jacob - Strong set.
-Jim
+1 Quality over quantity, unless they're all good, in which case the more the better.
I really like the ones where people are in them to give a sense of scale.
eg http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8039/8044915011_4368f02eb9_b.jpg
There's so many great shots over the last ew pages, it's hard to comment.
Sebboh - Love that work with the G28
Phillip - And I'm loving those G28 pics too.
Jacob - I really like the alpine shots, it's been far too long since I've been up in proper mountains.
@Jim, Lightshow, Mawz - thanks all. Now that I've had some sleep and come back to it fresh I can see that I do need to spend some time working on them, and Flickr crispy fried a few of them (I especially struggle with verticals and Flickr for some reason).
The image that Lightshow quoted above was a rock slide that we scrambled up. It gained about 1000 feet of elevation in less than half a mile. 3 shot stitch with CV 90. One of our group is making his way up in the shot, but of course he's basically just a tiny spec in the frame. Find the lone tree (green blob) not quite half way up, he's at about the 2 o'clock position from it.
Jacob D wrote:
Charlie - great stuff. Love the last one especially. You might try cropping out the foreground. Personally I like the low contrast look. Beautiful light, just beautiful.
It really looked like that---the sun was on the edge of the west divide, partially obscured by thin clouds I'm still learning to edit, obviously. I'd love to see what sebboh would do with the raw
Phillip those last two made me gasp.
Trintiy Alps--Ha! I know them from high school. Brings it back. Very nice wife, btw
freaklikeme wrote:
Just holding them taut over the front of the lens? I guess you could go deluxe and add a rubber band.
yup, just hold them tight and flat across and point the camera at the sky. actually i go some crinkles in the shots at some apertures, but since i only care about correcting the color fringing it doesn't seem to make a difference.
shooting at different focus distances seems to make a difference though. my infinity correction shot and my 4m correction produce noticeably different results on the same photo (in the ways you'd expect).
sebboh wrote:
yup, just hold them tight and flat across and point the camera at the sky. actually i go some crinkles in the shots at some apertures, but since i only care about correcting the color fringing it doesn't seem to make a difference.
shooting at different focus distances seems to make a difference though. my infinity correction shot and my 4m correction produce noticeably different results on the same photo (in the ways you'd expect).
So you're doing a master list of reference shots instead of shooting the reference shot as you're taking pictures?
