[Leica] Fwd: IMG: Incoming storm - Rocky Mountain National Park - May 2018

[Howard L Ritter Jr]

I just found that I could download the image, so I played around with de-haze on it in Camera Raw. I’m new to this aspect of Photoshop, and maybe I’m just a hayseed dazzled by the big city, but I’ve found that some images can be changed in remarkable (and sometimes good, often very bad) ways with de-haze. If you haven’t tried this “filter” on this image, you might find that sliding the control around in the ~50% range will make the clouds look the way you saw them. The slider will take you from a whiteout at -100% to neutral at 0 to apocalyptic at 100%.

“Clarity” and “Vibrance” have their own effects to contribute to a mind-boggling volume of phase space in image manipulation in Camera Raw. Sorry if I’m preaching to the choir.

—howard

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> From: Howard L Ritter Jr <hlritter at twc.com>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Incoming storm - Rocky Mountain National Park - May 2018
> Date: May 15, 2018 at 22:00:15 EDT
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
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> Well, it’s more than “okay”, Adam! If you feel it’s missing something, I’m not sure what it might be. As you’ve Photoshopped it, you’ve probably used or considered using the de-haze function in Camera Raw. Obviously you don’t want to get rid of the haze due to falling snow, but a light application, if you haven’t done so already, might harden the contrast a little and make the image pop a little. Of course, that might be the last thing you want it to do…
> 
> But it’s a super image, very wall-worthy.
> 
> —howard
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>> On May 15, 2018, at 18:52, Adam Bridge via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
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>> Something different:
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>> <https://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/organize/Travel/2018-Rocky-Mountain-National-Park/i-fr66pDn>
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>> Taken from Estes Park looking west to the Rockies.
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>> I’ve struggled a bit with this one. I still can’t quite get the details in the clouds that I saw as I shot it. I find them very difficult.
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>> This was converted from color into b&w in Photoshop, various editing in both.
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>> Shot with Sony A7Riii with 70-200 F4 G OSS Sony lens at F14, hand held. This is stitched panorama of 4 exposures.
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>> The actual image is 16378 x 5046.
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>> I’d welcome comments on how to improve it. I feel it’s okay but I’m missing something.
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Adam
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