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Big Sur for a day w/D5100

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Went out to the west coast last weekend for a wedding on Saturday, however my amazing fiance gave us Friday to drive up to Big Sur for some photography and sightseeing. Not nearly enough time but we had a blast. My dilemna the whole day was trying to figure out where i was going to be for sunset. Ending up finding an unmarked valley which i really liked, near Garrapata SP. Here's a trio of shots from the evening. C&C welcome.

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Very nicely done!
 
Nice images. Would be interesting to hear what you did in post.

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wonderful place for photo opportunities, Love the first shot
 
Thanks all. The lens used was the Nikkor 10-24 for 1 and 3, and the 16-85 for the second. As for PP , #1 just boosted the shadows and did some dodging in PS, a testament to the DR of the D5100. #2 some contrast/dodging/sharpening. #3 I ended up doing a manual blend, although I went back out of curiousity and reprocessed with just one raw file later, with very similar results. Thanks again for the comments.
 
Thanks for replying. I would have bet you had done something to bring out shadows, but to my eye they don't look too overcooked. Congrats on not falling into the trap of HDR/tone mapping your pictures into oblivion.

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Sorry to be ignorant, what do you mean by 'dodging'?

Rens
ShelNf said:
Thanks all. The lens used was the Nikkor 10-24 for 1 and 3, and the 16-85 for the second. As for PP , #1 just boosted the shadows and did some dodging in PS, a testament to the DR of the D5100. #2 some contrast/dodging/sharpening. #3 I ended up doing a manual blend, although I went back out of curiousity and reprocessed with just one raw file later, with very similar results. Thanks again for the comments.
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As others have said, these photographs are excellent. My favourite is the third one. I like the colour balance between the flowers in the foreground and the sky on the right.

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Paul
 
Really beautiful work. These two lenses are just great on the D5100.
 
Rens said:
Sorry to be ignorant, what do you mean by 'dodging'?

Rens
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Dodging(lightening) and burning(darkening) are terms carried over from film processing. Someone more knowledgeable than me could probably elaborate a little more. Basically in PS terms its just selecting a brush and lightening/darkening the areas you want. It can help give an image a little extra "pop" sometimes.
 
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