Thanks for the kind words Harvey... I appreciate you looking!
Thanks Kevin!
Thanks for looking Judas!
Superb shot, I really like it.Merry Christmas all!
Sugar Pines in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales, Australia
Cheers and good light, D. Hamments
My Flickr Page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dhamments2013/
Thanks! Have a great new year....Superb shot, I really like it.Merry Christmas all!
Sugar Pines in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales, Australia
Cheers and good light, D. Hamments
My Flickr Page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dhamments2013/
Nice example to demonstrate the limits of the 1" sensor. There is not enough dynamic range at ISO200 to handle the shadow boost applied in post, and chroma noise in the details of the tree trunks is visible even without 100% magnification. Increasing the exposure would have cleaned up the shadows, but completely blown what little color detail is still left in the sky.Merry Christmas all!
Sugar Pines in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales, Australia
Thanks for the observation Richard..... I didn't really look closely at the shadows, which you correctly noted had been boosted to my taste in LR. Blowing up to 100% really shows the chroma noise, so I've run the image through a noise reducing PS6 CC plugin, and feel it has improved. For those interested, here's the image once again...Nice example to demonstrate the limits of the 1" sensor. There is not enough dynamic range at ISO200 to handle the shadow boost applied in post, and chroma noise in the details of the tree trunks is visible even without 100% magnification. Increasing the exposure would have cleaned up the shadows, but completely blown what little color detail is still left in the sky.Merry Christmas all!
Sugar Pines in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales, Australia
I don't mean to dump on anyone's parade, I just felt it nicely illustrated my frustrations with CX, for landscapes in particular. While it's not something you need all the time, DR is something that you do feel acutely when you run out of.
I think I prefer the new version. While the heavy NR now applied does mess up the fine texture (see the pine needles ... or rather don't see them) this is only obvious at 100%.I intend to print this one on canvas when I return to Canada... thanks for the observation!
Chroma Noise reduced...
