Ah, that's better. But I'm not sure about the haze in the foreground
hills. I don't know if it's real or an artifact. Oops. I just
realized I'm on the Krappy-Kolor laptop so no telling what it really
looks like. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
Moose wrote:
> Brian Swale wrote:
>> The image was already highly modified.
>>
>> The foreground field vegetation should have been a greyish straw colour,
>> after many weeks of frost. But the high contrast due to the sun and snow,
>> gave the digicam a difficult time of it.
>>
>> I am about to upload yet another image which is the original modified only
>> by several resizings and mild sharpening; and you will see what I started
>> out with. I had decided to show the hills and snow, and the rest could fend
>> for itself.
>>
>
> I didn't play with color or saturation at all. Colors that were already
> there may have become more obvious.
>
> The less processed one is actually quite a bit easier to work with.
> <http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/Others/BSwale/Waikerikeri-valleyo.htm>
>
> As to the ability of the camera to deal with colour accurately, I see in
> the EXIF that the WB is set to Custom. I don't know how you have that
> set, but suspect a simple Daylight setting might have given better
> colour. Any setting that adjusts to "correct" color will tend to lose
> the special quality of the light.
>
> As to the brightness range, there is no way shooting in JPEG is likely
> to capture it all effectively on many digicams. Some aren't so bad, as
> they compress, rather than clip. Here, though, much of the sky is hard
> clipped, with large areas pure white.
>
> I've never used an E-3, but I imagine that, like other contemporary
> DSLRs, shooting to the right in RAW at ISO 100, here probably -2/3 to -1
> EV, would capture the whole range. It would require bringing up the
> shadows in conversion or post to get a pleasing result.
>
> Or, if working on a tripod, one could simply exposure bracket and
> combine sky from one with land from the other.
>
> Moose
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