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Purakaunui Falls
About:
The Purakaunui waterfalls are a popular stop in the Catlins and I saw plenty of pictures of this waterfall beforehand, but as every photographer here you want to have your own picture of it.
This is my point of view of the falls, the left side is the only accessible side, so all the pictures you see have about the same pov, I choose a long exposure with a wide-angle lens to get the swirls in the pond on the right. The more classic view I'll post later.
Location:
Catlins, New Zealand
This image is also geotagged
Technical stuff:
This one was a difficult one, in the first comment you'll see the RAW shot when I first imported it into Lightroom, it never looked like this on my preview in the camera, I was baffled!
These are the steps I did to make it look like this:
1. Find the correct white balance, it turned out to be a temperature of 11500 and -6 Tint
2. Crop and straighten (I think my tripod was rather level but it didn't looked right to me)
3. Highlight recovery +68
4. Fill Light +8
5. Brightness down from 50 to 28
6. Contrast up from 25 to 30
7. Clarity +44
8. Vibrance +28
9. Lens correction in the new Lightroom 3 (this is really good!)
At this point was already looking good in Lightroom, but it missed some impact and the big rock in front was disturbing me, so I opened the picture in Photoshop and did these actions:
1. Selection on everything expect the water and high pass sharpening with overlay blend mode at 53% opacity (I wanted to retain the smoothness of the water, high pass sharpening does away with this)
2. Selection on the big rock in front and exposure adjustment layer -0,94 gamma: 1
3. Selection on the green foliage on right of the falls and a green filter adjustment layer with 25% density, in 100% zoom to adjust the mask of the selection with a brush at 20% opacity to get it correct.
4. Noise reduction with Imagenomic
5. Brightness/contrast layer on the complete picture: brightness +10 contrast +38
At that moment I was happy with the end result I hope you like it too... Please take the time to take a look at this picture on Black it comes alive with it :)
Material used:
* Nikon D90
* Sigma 10-20 lens
* B&W polarizer
* Cokin ND filter (don't know which one I think a ND8)
* Gitzo tripod
Usage:
All my images are copyrighted, if you want to use it for anything contact me first.
Any comments, criticism and tips are welcome.
Purakaunui Falls
About:
The Purakaunui waterfalls are a popular stop in the Catlins and I saw plenty of pictures of this waterfall beforehand, but as every photographer here you want to have your own picture of it.
This is my point of view of the falls, the left side is the only accessible side, so all the pictures you see have about the same pov, I choose a long exposure with a wide-angle lens to get the swirls in the pond on the right. The more classic view I'll post later.
Location:
Catlins, New Zealand
This image is also geotagged
Technical stuff:
This one was a difficult one, in the first comment you'll see the RAW shot when I first imported it into Lightroom, it never looked like this on my preview in the camera, I was baffled!
These are the steps I did to make it look like this:
1. Find the correct white balance, it turned out to be a temperature of 11500 and -6 Tint
2. Crop and straighten (I think my tripod was rather level but it didn't looked right to me)
3. Highlight recovery +68
4. Fill Light +8
5. Brightness down from 50 to 28
6. Contrast up from 25 to 30
7. Clarity +44
8. Vibrance +28
9. Lens correction in the new Lightroom 3 (this is really good!)
At this point was already looking good in Lightroom, but it missed some impact and the big rock in front was disturbing me, so I opened the picture in Photoshop and did these actions:
1. Selection on everything expect the water and high pass sharpening with overlay blend mode at 53% opacity (I wanted to retain the smoothness of the water, high pass sharpening does away with this)
2. Selection on the big rock in front and exposure adjustment layer -0,94 gamma: 1
3. Selection on the green foliage on right of the falls and a green filter adjustment layer with 25% density, in 100% zoom to adjust the mask of the selection with a brush at 20% opacity to get it correct.
4. Noise reduction with Imagenomic
5. Brightness/contrast layer on the complete picture: brightness +10 contrast +38
At that moment I was happy with the end result I hope you like it too... Please take the time to take a look at this picture on Black it comes alive with it :)
Material used:
* Nikon D90
* Sigma 10-20 lens
* B&W polarizer
* Cokin ND filter (don't know which one I think a ND8)
* Gitzo tripod
Usage:
All my images are copyrighted, if you want to use it for anything contact me first.
Any comments, criticism and tips are welcome.