This did not come out as nice as I hoped, but I wanted to share since I really like the lobby of the Wilderness Lodge. I should have taken some photos from the opposite side, I just did not think of it. Better luck next year [This attachment has been purged. Older attachments are purged from time to time to conserve disk space. Please feel free to repost your image.]
Good job! Youre right this is a difficult tree to shoot - especially when its so tempting to create symmetry with the four lights. Heres one of my best shots Heres one with 3 of the 4 Here is my favorite one though
Here is another version. I bumped up the shadows a bit as Tim suggested; had to apply quite a bit of noise reduction. [This attachment has been purged. Older attachments are purged from time to time to conserve disk space. Please feel free to repost your image.]
nicely done paul, see the initial exposure is still the starting point, just as it was in ansel's day, and to those anti-digital this is not how the master would do it's, i say read his books, if ansel adams was alive today, i truly believe he'd be neck deep in digital and photoshop, and probably wildly excited about the creative possibilities
Paul, I think the best reason to shoot RAW is for the shadow recovery with less noise. Granted, the major manufacturers have now come out with extended dynamic range modes that do basically the same thing in camera for JPGs. Canon's first generation was called Highlight Tone Priority, not sure what it changed into, and Nikon's is called Active D-Lighting. Fuji already has the Super-CCD with two kinds of sensors on the chip, so that's why they have the largest dynamic range of any current camera.
Wow - big difference in the before vs. after with Photoshop shadows. Great picture and great tips - thanks for sharing!
Thanks. I will definitely plan to revisit that lobby now that I have the tripod. Still a tricky shot with the way the lighting comes in from outside. Perhaps a nighttime shot will be in order.
