To Dream That Dream That Beauty Is So Beautiful! (Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park)
A view looking to the northwest at Sunset Point in Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park. The sun had almost completely dropped behind the distant horizon except for a portion of the skies brighten up by its light. Most of the rest of this national park setting was in early twilight and quickly getting darker. My thinking during the time prior was to meter this image by adjusting the shutter speed such that I wouldn't blow any highlights present in the image. I knew that I would later be able to pull out any of the shadowed areas later in post-production. As I looked at the image in DxO PhotoLab 3 that I decided to work with the NEF image first in Aurora HDR Pro. I could make an HDR image from that single NEF one and work with an exported TIFF in DxO PhotoLab 3. I found that HDR software was better able to work with the shadowed areas and keep the highlights as captured. I later worked with control points in DxO PhotoLab 3 and then made some adjustments to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image.
To Dream That Dream That Beauty Is So Beautiful! (Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park)
A view looking to the northwest at Sunset Point in Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park. The sun had almost completely dropped behind the distant horizon except for a portion of the skies brighten up by its light. Most of the rest of this national park setting was in early twilight and quickly getting darker. My thinking during the time prior was to meter this image by adjusting the shutter speed such that I wouldn't blow any highlights present in the image. I knew that I would later be able to pull out any of the shadowed areas later in post-production. As I looked at the image in DxO PhotoLab 3 that I decided to work with the NEF image first in Aurora HDR Pro. I could make an HDR image from that single NEF one and work with an exported TIFF in DxO PhotoLab 3. I found that HDR software was better able to work with the shadowed areas and keep the highlights as captured. I later worked with control points in DxO PhotoLab 3 and then made some adjustments to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image.