I Started Out from a Restful Sleep and Realized That Today Was a Beautiful Day! (Cuyahoga Valley National Park)
My first stop upon entering Cuyahoga Valley National Park. To say this was a show for a waterfall might be a little bit of an overstatement. With the recent rainstorm that had passed over this area, the streams and rivers were quite filled with water! So that's what I came across when I walked up to this overlook point to Brandywine Falls and decided to try out a longer exposure with a variable ND filter I had in a hiking buttpack I was walking with. I felt I could take advantage of the flow and practice on capturing an image with a longer exposure (and not blow any highlights!). The next thing I set up was a CamRanger that I'd played around with earlier this trip. I found it was easy to control the exposure and focus with that using my iPhone and then get immediate feedback with a bigger screen than that of the LCD on my Nikon D800E. I liked how that then made for more visible adjustments. I initially brought the NEF/RAW image into Aurora HDR Pro so I could pull out the dynamic range seen without any color casts I'd experienced in Capture NX2. I was later able bring an export TIFF image back into that program and use control points and color control points to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image here.
I Started Out from a Restful Sleep and Realized That Today Was a Beautiful Day! (Cuyahoga Valley National Park)
My first stop upon entering Cuyahoga Valley National Park. To say this was a show for a waterfall might be a little bit of an overstatement. With the recent rainstorm that had passed over this area, the streams and rivers were quite filled with water! So that's what I came across when I walked up to this overlook point to Brandywine Falls and decided to try out a longer exposure with a variable ND filter I had in a hiking buttpack I was walking with. I felt I could take advantage of the flow and practice on capturing an image with a longer exposure (and not blow any highlights!). The next thing I set up was a CamRanger that I'd played around with earlier this trip. I found it was easy to control the exposure and focus with that using my iPhone and then get immediate feedback with a bigger screen than that of the LCD on my Nikon D800E. I liked how that then made for more visible adjustments. I initially brought the NEF/RAW image into Aurora HDR Pro so I could pull out the dynamic range seen without any color casts I'd experienced in Capture NX2. I was later able bring an export TIFF image back into that program and use control points and color control points to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image here.