This distinctive rock is near Santa Fe, New Mexico. I am just returning home from a week long Photoshop class. This was put on by Santa Fe Workshops and was very informative and helpful.
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For this shot I had the difficult task of aligning two strong horizontal elements, the foreground railing and the background shoreline. The use of a relatively wide angle lens also complicates correcting the optical distortions. Check inside to see how I did it in this image.
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I've been wanting to do night photography in Bannack, Montana for some time now and inspired by our night outing on our recent Yellowstone workshop I decided to make the 2 hour drive for an evening of fun. The old Bannack school house made a nice foreground for the Milky Way and remnants of a glorious sunset an hour earlier.
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A word about technique - This type of photography is really quite simple to do. A full frame, low noise sensor yields the best results. I find it hard to focus on a star even using live view at full magnification. I calibrate infinity on the lens I'm am going use in the daylight and mark the scale so I can easily go to that point in the dark. The camera is set to manual mode and I typically use the settings below. The image that results is somewhat over exposed but I find it produces less noise and better detail to darken a slightly light image rather than lighten a dark image. This philosophy is akin to the saying "expose to the right" which produces less noise in the dark parts of the image.
George Lepp has an article in the November 2012 issue of Outdoor Photography about Milky Way photography. He fails to mention one essential setting and that is always turn on "Long exposure noise reduction!" Your camera will then take a dark frame after the exposure which greatly decreases the noise and "hot pixels."
Finally about the light painting. With the camera set to this very sensitive technique to capture the Milky Way and stars, use indirect lighting of the foreground and building. In this case I shinned the flashlight across the street on other buildings and the reflected light was enough to light the school house.
Camera Nikon D3S
Exposure 30 sec
Aperture f/2.8
Focal Length 14 mm
ISO Speed 6400
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This is a project image I did using techniques from the Santa Fe Workshops - Creative Photoshop course I recently took. See below for the process used.
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The tutorials so far are...
1. Digital Blending
2. A Simple method of Dodging and Burning
3. Lab mode for Pumping up the Color
4. Forgotten Filters
5.Auto Blending
6.Hand Coloring Simulation
7.Gaussian Glow
8.Conquering the Light
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The levels command is one of those simple but highly effective ways to post process an image. Become the master of levels and make you images all that they can be. ;-)
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