Post Proc Challenge - Zion

Thanks, George. Yours is more in line with where I was trying to go. Want the RAW file? For that matter, anyone who wants the RAW file to take a look at, please feel free to post it here or send me a PM.

James

James,
pls. send the RAW file.

Jim

James,

Great composition. I know exactly where that is under weeping rock. I was standing right there and really struggled to find a composition I liked that included that peak - I think you found it.

I would appreciate if I could give a shot at your file..

BTW -

OK, what the heck. Let me give it a shot with the RAW file.

Hey George,

Yes. It certainly does. :P Thanks guys for the work on this. I have just sent out the photo to the 4 of you through 'Send This File.' Let me know if you don't get it.

Thanks
James

Hey Guys,

Just curious to see if anyone was able to re-process my raw image with satisfaction.

James

James,

I wanted to play with your file, but when I tried to download it I selected to "run" it rather than "save" it, and therefore lost it (or at least cannot find it). I then tried to re-download it, but it had exceeded the number of downloads. If you do not mind re-sending it, I can try again.

Sorry
Dave

I haven't used this service before, it went into my Spam folder and now the file is expired. Please resend. Sorry.

Hey Everyone,

Thanks for the info. I will make a second stab this evening at sending the file.

James

Hey Guys,

The file is off. Please let me know if you do not receive the link.

James

Ok - I gave this a shot. I had to convert the file to DNG format so CS3 could read it.

I brought in two different exposures settings from ACR and blended them in PS.... Now that I am looking at it from the internet, I am not sure I like the top of the mountain in this shot. This was a pretty quick adjustment, but this is what I have.







I have been playing with a demo version of Photomatrix, so thought I would try that with your file. I saved three different exposure setting in ACR, and imported those three files into Photomatrix, then played with it a little in both Photomatrix and PS. I thought it would be interesting to see the difference. I think I like what Photomatrix did to the trees better than the other version.





You can see it has the photomatrix watermark because I do not think I will purchase the software; I am only using the demo.

Hope this is helpful - thanks for letting me play with it.

Dave

Hi David,

I think you did a great job with the trees - they look richer and more saturated. I wish that more could be done with the area of sky between the edge of the rock face and the mountain.

James

Yes - I see there is some banding in the sky in my version. I am not sure why - but somewhere in my process I think I added that. I played with it a little bit below again; while it is a little better, I did not eliminate it and now have some ghosting. Sorry I think that is beyond my current PP abilities.

Maybe someone else???

i would be interested in taking a stab at this challenge. pls send me the RAW file - i did what i could with the little 1.66 x 2.5 file. i'm sure this could be improved with more data.

in the meantime, here is my edit.

jp

Hey JP,

I found the file. Are you still interested in playing around with it? I will launch it off to you.

James

Yes - still very much interested. do you have my email addy?

Hey JP,

Please send me an e-mail...

James@ NWPphotoforum.com

Cheers
James

Hey JP,

The file was sent to you via send this file. Please let me know if you don't receive it.

James

james -

got the new file, & went to work. i found this image to be a difficult image to work with. i'm guessing it is due to the backlighting creating different casts in various parts of it. also, that mid-day sun (that's my guess, anyway) can be problematic from the git-go.

at any rate, not having been there, i still tried to work with the data that was in the image & hold it as true as possible. i found quite a big difference in this version to my original edit with the web file i was able to download initially. i will probably tinker with this some more later, as there are still areas that i would like to address, & it gives me a good image to work on to do just that.

i would be interested to see your thoughts on the edit - & feel free to be as brutally honest with them.

jp

By the way James, I did work with this after you sent it to me and I did not have any wow-wow results with it. Maybe if I had days to tweak. Or it you had 3 or 4 other images to HDR.

Go back and shoot it in better light. . .