Summertime in Northern-Norway (X-T20 & 14mm f2.8)

Greg7579 wrote:

These are very nice images - impressive travel images and composition. Great landscape subjects. Good eye. These scenes begged to be captured. But when the sun is low in the sky it is very challenging and huge dynamic range. These are the kinds of shots where in-camera JPEG fails completely and you must shoot RAW. I assume you did.

I probably would have viewed the histogram at capture (using the well-known camera presets that set the in-camera JPEG to provide the best histogram in the live view that better matches the actual RAW output) and pushed to the right a bit (EC plus 1), but I of course don't know for sure because I am not looking at the EVF at capture and don't know what you were seeing. But this is very high dynamic range landscapes with very bright spots of sky and darker foregrounds with no direct light on them. You have to make some judgement calls at capture on the EV you use. I would shoot it at base ISO

You can greatly improve these in post because they are high dynamic range shots and you need to play with the five tone-mapping sliders in LR to bring the images out.

These foregrounds must pop more while not blowing out the bright spots in the sky.

No way to tell what adjustments you already made and we need to see the histogram on the RAW file in LR, but do this as a start:

- Exposure slider +1 to the right.

- Shadows Slider to the right all the way and see what happens. That foreground needs as much exposure as you can get.

- Whites Slider to the right till the histogram hits the wall.

- Left on the Highlights Slider a bit.

- Left on the Blacks Slider a bit but don't hit the left histogram wall

- Increase the Clarity and Vibrance

Greg Johnson, San Antonio, Texas
https://www.flickr.com/photos/139148982@N02/albums

Hi Greg and thanks for your thoughts and advice. Have tried your recommendations in LR now and tell me what you think. Shot raw of course and developed through Iridient X Transformer.

X-T20 - 14mm f2.8 - ISO200 f13 30 sec.