I captured this image a few years ago at Lake Mirror in Lakeland, Florida. I worked up the image recently using new skills and software. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.
Nikon D7000
Nikon 80-400mm F/4.5-5.6 VR AF-S ED, Handheld
1/2000 F/5.6 Matrix Metering EV 0 ISO 1000 Auto WB, image captured at 280mm (420mm 35mm Equivalent)
Post processed using Lightroom Classic, Photoshop CC 2023 and Topaz Denoise AI
Cropped for composition and presentation
Last edited by Joseph Przybyla; 12-22-2022 at 01:47 PM.
Joe Przybyla
"Sometimes I do get to places just as God is ready to have somebody click the shutter"... Ansel Adams
Looks good to me Joe, colours and details excellent, I suspect Steve is referring to subtle adjustments of Red and Blue colours. It doesn't look far off the mark to me.
Hi Steve, I worked on the TIFF but have the master file. Here is a square crop.
I think you are getting confused Joe with a Master file:
1. Raw file (original RAW with your first pass of manipulations) and you then Export
2. The tiff is NOW your Master file with all its works, obviously better as a PSD, but...
3. You then need to create a Virtual copy and make changes to that. It's more complicated because of your WF and not retaining layers, but you have to create a new Virtual copy each time you make changes, otherwise you will overwrite you workings and cannot go back to any stage in your WF, unless you work on the History.
Post Production: It’s ALL about what you do with the tools and not, which brand of tool you use.
I think you are getting confused Joe with a Master file:
1. Raw file (original RAW with your first pass of manipulations) and you then Export
2. The tiff is NOW your Master file with all its works, obviously better as a PSD, but...
3. You then need to create a Virtual copy and make changes to that. It's more complicated because of your WF and not retaining layers, but you have to create a new Virtual copy each time you make changes, otherwise you will overwrite you workings and cannot go back to any stage in your WF, unless you work on the History.
You are correct I was confused. The RAW file I only make global changes to it, zero the sharpening that lightroom automatically sets and lens corrections then I convert it to a 16 bit TIFF file. The TIFF then would be my master file.
P.S. I like the square crop, I think it works well.
Joe Przybyla
"Sometimes I do get to places just as God is ready to have somebody click the shutter"... Ansel Adams
Hi Joe ... i do like the " punker hair do "
Overall i does look well processed and the tweaks in the RP took this up a notch , square crop does work quite well . Albeit i am not a big fan of those square image .
Nice detail and tones in the subject