These images ARE produced from a RAW image. On Sep 29, 2014, at 17:36 , Bob Sullivan <rf.sulli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You ought to try that with a RAW image for best results. > > On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Don Guthrie <shark50...@gmail.com> wrote: >> You know I like them both in their own way. The 1st one has a certain drama >> b&w high contrast. But I appreciate the information in the improved version >> which changes the subject to include the pool and people. >> >> On 9/29/14, 1:00 PM, pdml-requ...@pdml.net wrote: >>> >>> Message: 3 >>> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 12:25:59 -0500 >>> From: Charles Robinson<charl...@visi.com> >>> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List<pdml@pdml.net> >>> Subject: PESO: Washington Monument (and in praise of the dynamic range >>> on the K5) >>> Message-ID:<8a62ed63-b8c4-479e-affb-4b8acdf45...@visi.com> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >>> >>> I can't say enough good things about what you can do with pulling up >>> detail from the shadows in the K5. >>> >>> Saturday night, the wife and I pedaled around Washington DC taking photos >>> of the monuments. One shot I did, I figured "well, the contrast is too much >>> but I'll just expose for the brights and see what else I can get in post". >>> >>> So, I spot-metered on the Washington monument, and took this 13-second >>> exposure at f/9 and ISO 100. As you can see, the image "straight out of the >>> camera" is not much to write home about: >>> >>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/cpbyheptagcykqj/K5__4359-original.jpg?dl=0 >>> >>> However, in LR I did only two (very-drastic) adjustments: >>> >>> 1. I jammed the exposure slider all the way up (+5 stops) >>> 2. I pulled the highlights all the way down (-100) >>> >>> The result is this. Not high art, but a good-enough documentation of what >>> I saw when I was there: >>> >>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/7djxrsj2pwcfl0e/K5__4359-processed.jpg?dl=0 >>> >>> There is some mottling up in the sky due to it being a low-quality JPEG >>> export (and there's also a speck of dust on my darned sensor!) but still - >>> wow. >>> >>> -Charles >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -Charles -- Charles Robinson - charl...@visi.com Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
