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POTW 504: 11/1/20 - 17/1/20

  • 16-02-2020 12:05pm
    #1
    Myksyk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,550 ✭✭✭


    THIs WEEK'S POTW GOES JOINTLY TO:



    johnmcdnl
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    &


    PaulieC
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    HONOURABLE MENTIONS



    Mike Litoris
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    Wailin
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    keps
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    Adrian.Sadlier
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    CONGRATULATIONS johnmcdnl and PaulieC
    WELL DONE HMs




    Guys, you might both give us some insight into the capturing and processing of the winning shots.


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  • #2
    PaulieC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,196 ✭✭✭PaulieC


    Yay, a POTW at last :D

    It was one of the named storms recently and just happened to grab a quick 10 minutes between showers. This was taken at the Great South Wall looking over towards Howth. The little pilot was being thrown about and looked at one stage like it was going under. Taken at 300mm, the foreshortening makes it look a lot closer than it was to the huge cargo ship coming in behind.

    Thanks for the thanks!!


  • #3
    johnmcdnl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,739 ✭✭✭johnmcdnl


    This one is taken in the hills near Sa Pa in northern Vietnam.
    We were hiking to a small village where we were planning on staying the night.
    It had been a pretty cloudy day but for a short time just before the sun crossed the horizon of the top of the mountains there was a short break in the clouds.
    Just enough to get a couple of shots off.

    The sky in the original shot was heavily overexposed but just enough detail there to avoid blowing it out, so there's a strong gradient applied to bring the highlights down.
    Despite the sky almost being blown out, the ground was also a shade underexposed, so there's a second gradient to bring up the blacks and darks and get rid of some harsh reflections of the water in the paddy fields.
    In normal situations I'd have used bracketing to help reduce the need for such heavy post processing, but I didn't have a tripod with me on the trip.

    Having got the light some what right, I applied a Luminance range mask to help me add yellow to the colour balance to warm up the picture, and some greens to the shadows (the land).

    Then it was a case of just some other basic adjustments to balance it all out.


    I did most of the processing on the Android Lightroom app on my Oppo AX5. Things I learned -- Oppo AX5 is bloody awful for representing colours and led me to creating some horribly over saturated images in the process of editing this. I ended up having to sent edits to my GFs phone to cross check after each adjustment. Next time I'll just install Lightroom on her phone, or wait until I'm back at a computer.


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