Valley View in Black and White
Friday, February 22.
Update: While black and white shots from this place often evoke thoughts of Ansel Adams, to be perfectly honest I rarely think about black and white and I arrived at this result in a very roundabout way. I was processing this for color, but had given up on the shot because I couldn't balance out the warm tones in the sunlight and the more blue white balance in the shade, and the results to me just looked more distracting than anything else.
But then I downloaded Photomatix 4.2 to see if HDR might offer any helpful modes, and I saw the photo in 5 different versions of black and white. Color problems resolved. I had pre-processed in lightroom before using a plug-in to process in Phtomatix, then I still had to post-process in Lightroom to get it all right, but no problem, the plug-in performed the re-import of the TIFF, so the workflow was easy and seamless.
I'll have to try to remember that HDR option now at the tip of my fingers in Lightroom the next time I run into dynamic range or color problems.
You don't see a lot of east-facing sunsets shot in Yosemite National Park, since so many of the roads and visitors are down in the Valley. But when you see the light getting interesting in that direction it's certainly possible to head up to higher ground to capture it! This was taken two Saturdays ago, February 23, as many photographers in the park were looking at the dry spot where they wished Horsetail Falls would flow, to see if at least the rock might catch a vertical shaft of sunset light.
This image was featured in Flickr's Explore, highest position: #1 on Friday, March 8, 2013
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Valley View in Black and White
Friday, February 22.
Update: While black and white shots from this place often evoke thoughts of Ansel Adams, to be perfectly honest I rarely think about black and white and I arrived at this result in a very roundabout way. I was processing this for color, but had given up on the shot because I couldn't balance out the warm tones in the sunlight and the more blue white balance in the shade, and the results to me just looked more distracting than anything else.
But then I downloaded Photomatix 4.2 to see if HDR might offer any helpful modes, and I saw the photo in 5 different versions of black and white. Color problems resolved. I had pre-processed in lightroom before using a plug-in to process in Phtomatix, then I still had to post-process in Lightroom to get it all right, but no problem, the plug-in performed the re-import of the TIFF, so the workflow was easy and seamless.
I'll have to try to remember that HDR option now at the tip of my fingers in Lightroom the next time I run into dynamic range or color problems.
You don't see a lot of east-facing sunsets shot in Yosemite National Park, since so many of the roads and visitors are down in the Valley. But when you see the light getting interesting in that direction it's certainly possible to head up to higher ground to capture it! This was taken two Saturdays ago, February 23, as many photographers in the park were looking at the dry spot where they wished Horsetail Falls would flow, to see if at least the rock might catch a vertical shaft of sunset light.
This image was featured in Flickr's Explore, highest position: #1 on Friday, March 8, 2013
You can see which of your photos have been in Explore using Scout (simply insert your user ID in the space provided at this link: bighugelabs.com/scout.php?username=23183960@N00&combi...