OT - a few from Tahoe

[beerguy]

Hi folks,

I spent a couple days up at Lake Tahoe this weekend shooting with a friend. While clouds would have been nice, the moon was a welcome addition.

Cheers

[edwing206]

Those are some great pictures. I think the first has to be my favorite.

[zenya]

Gorgeous! Great shots, Doug.

[seastar12]

the first is great

[gregr]

the first is great

The second is great too- my favorite of the three. Really superb.

[Rosseau]

Thumbs up.

[beerguy]

Thanks folks! Sometimes it's worth getting up at 4am.

[dinoman]

Beerguy, do you ever stack exposures? (Not HDR) Also what is the exif info on these?

[beerguy]

I have Dino, but most of the time I really don't like the result. The resulting range of tones generally looks fake to me and it grates on my nerves.

I use a PS action that frames and watermarks the images and does a "save for web" so the exif gets stripped. You can see my settings if you look at them in my gallery. (last 3 images)

[dinoman]

Thanks, I've always wondered that because your images are all really well exposed for the entire scene, and I've been reading a lot on using two exposures - one exposed generally for the sky and then one for the foreground details to get a lot more natural look without blowing anything out. I'll have to go look at them now , been trying to learn how to do low-light stuff, I just need to find a good subject for it.

[beerguy]

Some people do it all the time as part of their standard workflow and it works for them. To each his own. For the two scenes with the moon my primary focus was to not blow out the moon. It has a lot to do with being their at the right time and paying close attention to the histogram.

I also carry and frequently use a soft edged split gradient neutral density filter. I don't like the screw in ones I use a 4 x 6" that I hand hold in front of the lens. I don't recall if either of those moon shots used one or not.

[dinoman]

I need to get me some filters to experiment with, I've really been trying to learn how to do better landscape type stuff. Such a different ally than my norm which is more or less action shooting!

[KurtsReef]

I have some fond memories of Tahoe, specifically of a red head and the Circus Circus hotel

Nice shots.

[beerguy]

Dino - there are plenty of folks who achieve the same result without using filters. Much of it can be done in PS if you want to take the time. I just prefer to get it as close as possible "in the camera."


Thanks Kurt, I remember that red head, I mean hotel.

[VoidRaven]

Originally posted by beerguy

I use a PS action that frames and watermarks the images and does a "save for web" so the exif gets stripped.

I would be curious on how to assemble this action.

[beerguy]

Originally posted by VoidRaven
I would be curious on how to assemble this action.

I bet you would.


I use another framing action to create the frame. I just used the record function to wrap all of my standard stuff together. I have two actions, one for portrait, one for landscape. The action calls the framing script, adds a text layer with my watermark, adds the glow style to the text, drops the opacity, flattens the file and then does a "save for web" into my default folder.

[scbauer]

Love the pictures... it's pictures like this that make me wonder why I left Tahoe.

-Scott

[ginger7286]

My guess as to why you left Tahoe is shoveling a driveway, freezing, slipping and driving on ice. The same reasons why I left Chicago.

Beerguy....nice photos they look like postcards.

[MCary]

Doug, I see some really nasty dust bunnies you should really clean that up before posting, it is really unprofessional to post these pictures like that, really what were you thinking, I mean com'on.....wait, oops, it was my monitor. Hmmm tastes like pizza grease. Nevermind.

Mike

[beerguy]

I know what you mean Mike. I've got a couple of "spots" on my monitor that I've tried to clone out more than once.

[ahuxman58]

Nice shots all, number 1 is my fav nice color

[thor32766]

wow those pics are unbelieveable!!!!