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Tumultiuous sunset

Started Dec 7, 2019 | Photos thread
Oiche Senior Member • Posts: 2,045
Re: Tumultiuous sunset

Very nice indeed, the first 4 are very my style with mountains and the sun in the frame but just watch you don't blow out the highlights as much. Perhaps use a lower exposure again to preserve all highlights except the sun disc itself and ramp up the shadows in post to your liking... You have a KP at your disposal so raising the shadows without lots of noise is much more possible, unlike older DSLRs.

You have HDR DNG mode in your camera, it takes 3x bracketed RAWs and merges them into a single RAW image giving a trulh truly massive dynamic dynamic range for highly demanding landscape scenes where mountains are shadowed by the setting sun. You obviously need a tripod but it is a truly powerful tool for the landscape photographer as it saves you using graduated filters on front of the lens.

Plus the HDR DNG mode saves you merging separate bracketed frames in post, the camera does it for you and you save space and clutter by only having 1 image instead of 3. 😉

That DA* 50-135 looks great for landscapes and I can't see any flare to speak of, it behaves just like a DA*  60-250 in these backlit scenes with the sun in the frame.

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Pentax K-70 Pentax smc DA* 60-250mm F4.0 ED (IF) SDM Pentax smc DA 40mm F2.8 Limited Samyang 14mm F2.8 ED AS IF UMC HD Pentax DA 15mm F4 ED AL Limited +1 more
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