Calico under the sun

[Andres Bonilla]

Hello everyone, I took this photo under smoldering sun in Calico, Nevada. I did my best in Photoshop but I was reading in a previous post about EC ? and ACR and ways of improving the photos in RAW, something about working with contrast at zero instead of the default 25 etc. I only have one exposure to work with. Please fell free to rework the image and if you prefer I would post the color one.

Thanks,


Andres

[Andres Bonilla]

I just noticed that the dimensions changed from 1074 x 716 to 800 x 533 is this part of the Luminous landscape standards?

[Tim Gray]

If you could post a link to the raw file, it would be interesting to workup.

It's been a while since we've had a "give this a go in post processing" thread.

[Andres Bonilla]

Thanks Tim, pardon my ignorance but I only post on websites like this one, or Fred Miranda's site. Do I need to have my own web page in order to have a direct link to a RAW file?

[Tim Gray]

Thanks Tim, pardon my ignorance but I only post on websites like this one, or Fred Miranda's site. Do I need to have my own web page in order to have a direct link to a RAW file?
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pm sent.

[Andres Bonilla]

Tim thanks, I 'll do it tomorrow from my house.

[jani]

I just noticed that the dimensions changed from 1074 x 716 to 800 x 533 is this part of the Luminous landscape standards?

No, your image is stored at pbase.com, so it has to be something there.

[John Sheehy]

I just noticed that the dimensions changed from 1074 x 716 to 800 x 533 is this part of the Luminous landscape standards?
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If you want the exact image you uploaded to pbase to show, and any dimension is greater than 800, your link has to end in "/original.jpg" (after the image number).

[Andres Bonilla]

If you want the exact image you uploaded to pbase to show, and any dimension is greater than 800, your link has to end in "/original.jpg" (after the image number).
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Thanks John, I have been waiting for that answer. I think Tim is going to post the RAW file.

Thanks again,

Andres

[Tim Gray]

yousendit.com is giving me grief, - I can't get by all the casino ads... but I'm working on it...

[Tim Gray]

Here's the link:

http://www.timgrayphotography.com/images/IMG_1536.CR2

to download, right click and "save target as"
you may need to change the extension back to CR2

8 meg CR2 file.

[Tim Gray]

Andres is having difficulty opening the above file - I've downloaded with no problem (change extension to .CR2)  Can anyone else download this?

[Ray]

I just get hieroglyphics.

[Richowens]

I got it, Tim.

Ray, do it like Tim says, right click, Save as, change extension to CR2 and save.

Rich

[Tim Gray]

OK, now that at least 2 of us can get at it, here's my shot a BW:

[Andres Bonilla]

Thanks Tim! For some reason I could not open it from work but I tried .CR2 after right clicking and chahging the save target as and it worked at home.

 Everyone please feel free to work on the RAW file and post your results. I would love to see and know how you accomplished your results.

Thanks,

Andres

[Andres Bonilla]

Wow, Tim very nice! I noticed that your whites in the clouds are brighter, what is your workflow?

[Tim Gray]

Sky was basically a duplicate layer selected for the sky and blend mode multiply before the bw conversion, plus some fussing around for a couple of spots that got blown out in the process.  My normal workflow left the sky a bit weak, and I liked the intense treatment in your original post so "kicked it up a notch".  

The original RAW was well exposed so there was lots of latitude to work.  At the end, for some reason it had an oversharpened feel so I added a selection mask and blurred the foreground about .3 px and burned it a bit.

BW conversion is also simple, a solid gray layer, blend mode color then a sat adj layer to darken/lighten and change the saturatioin of selected colors.

..forgot to clone out the people on the observation deck.

Andres - where was this taken?

[Richowens]

Here is my B&W version.



and a color version,



Thank you for the opportunity.

Rich

[John Sheehy]

Here's the link:

http://www.timgrayphotography.com/images/IMG_1536.CR2
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Talk about exposing to the right!  There are exactly 19 pixels clipped, in the RAW green channel.  Can't get much closer than that!