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

Thanks for looking

Excellent work; thanks.

Those are fantastic!

First of all thanks for posting.

Although your composition, Location, Lighting are great, I feel pictures are kind of underexposed. I do understand you have exposed for the highlights. May be, I wish you would have post process to brighten some parts selectively?

If you give permission. I will try and show you a rough Edit for one picture?
May I?

Jeg savner Norge. Fine bilder, men litt undereksponert.

ms18 wrote:

First of all thanks for posting.

Although your composition, Location, Lighting are great, I feel pictures are kind of underexposed. I do understand you have exposed for the highlights. May be, I wish you would have post process to brighten some parts selectively?

If you give permission. I will try and show you a rough Edit for one picture?
May I?

Hi,  and thanks! I know they look a little underxposed. They had just a quick edit in lightroom on an ipad as im on vacation so no calibrated monitor. Will look more into it when home on desktop. All jpegs in velvia sim also.

Gavin Stapleton wrote:

Jeg savner Norge. Fine bilder, men litt undereksponert.

Takk 😊👍

I just bought an exensive Wine Country Camera filter system so I wouldn’t have to mess with too much post etc. I think a two stop grad on some of these shots would have helped. Otherwise they look great!  That 14mm is a great lens, I need to use mine more often!

It's funny how opinions can vary. I think your photographs look perfect the way they are. I find the dark parts add a lot of mood to the images and assume they appeared that way when you took the photos. I like the way they don't look "over cooked" in post processing.

Pan50 wrote:

I just bought an exensive Wine Country Camera filter system so I wouldn’t have to mess with too much post etc. I think a two stop grad on some of these shots would have helped. Otherwise they look great! That 14mm is a great lens, I need to use mine more often!

Thanks! I dont have a grad nd filter but will lighten in lr later when on desktop pc and calibrated monitor.

Vistaview wrote:

It's funny how opinions can vary. I think your photographs look perfect the way they are. I find the dark parts add a lot of mood to the images and assume they appeared that way when you took the photos. I like the way they don't look "over cooked" in post processing.

Hi thanks!

I tend to agree with you there. Dont like that hdr-look. Not too much anyway.

Vistaview wrote:

It's funny how opinions can vary. I think your photographs look perfect the way they are. I find the dark parts add a lot of mood to the images and assume they appeared that way when you took the photos. I like the way they don't look "over cooked" in post processing.

I agree with this.  People have such different perspectives on PP.  I think yours are dramatic because of the way you did(n't) edit. Lovely.  Gives me hope that I can shoot some good landscapes in Alaska next month.  Nicely done

ms18 wrote:

First of all thanks for posting.

Although your composition, Location, Lighting are great, I feel pictures are kind of underexposed. I do understand you have exposed for the highlights. May be, I wish you would have post process to brighten some parts selectively?

If you give permission. I will try and show you a rough Edit for one picture?
May I?

A new version edited on pc and calibrated monitor:

X-T20 14mm f2.8 30sec.

Thanks.

Pretty place

Ian

edorf_71 wrote:

A new version edited on pc and calibrated monitor:

X-T20 14mm f2.8 30sec.

But the vegetation was orange! You changed the season?

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

oscarvdvelde wrote:

edorf_71 wrote:

A new version edited on pc and calibrated monitor:

X-T20 14mm f2.8 30sec.

But the vegetation was orange! You changed the season?

heh, I noticed that too. Maybe wb was off.

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.

Ian J G wrote:

Pretty place

Ian

Thanks Ian! Yes, Im always amazed at the beauty of nature in northern-norway. Lofoten islands, Senja etc. This is in the Lyngen peninsula not far from Tromsø.

Regards,
edorf_71

I'm in the minority here, but in my opinion, your original images have more appeal than the ones with the lightened foregrounds.