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NX500 does Atacama Desert

Started May 3, 2017 | Photos
selar rao Contributing Member • Posts: 527
NX500 does Atacama Desert
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Laguna Miniques  a high altitude (4200m) lake in the Chilean Altiplano ringed by volcanoes set in the driest desert in the world, the Atacama desert shot with NX 12-24 lens and NX500

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Samsung NX 12-24mm F4-5.6 ED Samsung NX500
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TJL LTFF
TJL LTFF Senior Member • Posts: 1,728
Re: NX500 does Atacama Desert
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Very nice - thanks for sharing. I would love to see the night sky there - though for me an oxygen tank at that altitude might come in handy.

The NX500+12-24mm makes a nice combo for those sweeping vistas.

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OP selar rao Contributing Member • Posts: 527
Re: NX500 does Atacama Desert

The NX500+12-24mm makes a nice combo for those sweeping vistas.

The 12-24 and the NX 85/1.4 and USB charging are what prompted me to get the NX500(s) as they make a great travel photography kit.

Thanks for the nice comments!

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OP selar rao Contributing Member • Posts: 527
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Vicuna grazing at the Miniques in the Chilean Altiplano - NX 85/1.4

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OP selar rao Contributing Member • Posts: 527
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Moon Valley, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile with NX12-24

Altitude is only 2300m. Photograph of dry lake with encrusted salt.

El Valle de la Luna (Valley of the Moon) is located 13 kilometres (8 mi) west of San Pedro de Atacama, to the north of Chile in the Cordillera de la Sal, in the Atacama desert. It has various stone and sand formations which have been carved by wind and water. It has an impressive range of color and texture, looking somewhat similar to the surface of the moon. There are also dry lakes where the composition of salt makes a white covering layer of the area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valle_de_la_Luna_(Chile)

San Pedro de Atacama

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OP selar rao Contributing Member • Posts: 527
Re: NX500 does Atacama Desert

Moon Valley, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile

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nitrokill
nitrokill Regular Member • Posts: 118
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your pictures looks even better with lightroom post production.:-)

LR post production

LR post production

also my attempts with the NX 500 with a 16-50mm lens f/3.5

With LR post of corse

im also a big fan of timelapse videos so i share my timelapses here done with the NX 500

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au7lo29NZFo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rgyT9f_CWs

hope you enjoy

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OP selar rao Contributing Member • Posts: 527
Re: NX500 does Atacama Desert

They were already post processed from RAW using Adobe Camera Raw. I appreciate your effort using Lightroom, however, those vistas didnt look like your processed images in real life.

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