Sunset in the Chisos Mountains (Big Bend National Park)
What an amazing view to take in! This was right around sunset on my first evening back in Big Bend National Park. While the sun was further to the south then a view of it setting between the peaks of The Window, it was still a view to take in! This was taken on the porch area of the main lodge area where many gather in the late afternoons and evenings.
For the image, I decided to meter the exposure for that area with the highlights in the far portion as I didn't want to lose any of the details and contrast present with the clouds and far-off peaks in the distance. I figured I could later work to bring out the nearby shadowed areas later in post-production. One of the things I've recently learned was using Aurora HDR and using a RAW image from my Nikon SLR to create an HDR from a single image. That's how I processed this image and exported a tiff image to then work with in Capture NX2 for the final image.
Sunset in the Chisos Mountains (Big Bend National Park)
What an amazing view to take in! This was right around sunset on my first evening back in Big Bend National Park. While the sun was further to the south then a view of it setting between the peaks of The Window, it was still a view to take in! This was taken on the porch area of the main lodge area where many gather in the late afternoons and evenings.
For the image, I decided to meter the exposure for that area with the highlights in the far portion as I didn't want to lose any of the details and contrast present with the clouds and far-off peaks in the distance. I figured I could later work to bring out the nearby shadowed areas later in post-production. One of the things I've recently learned was using Aurora HDR and using a RAW image from my Nikon SLR to create an HDR from a single image. That's how I processed this image and exported a tiff image to then work with in Capture NX2 for the final image.