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- The Color of Autumn Off the Hornbecks Trail in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreational Area October 26, 2021
- We’ll Leave the Light on For You I found another mushroom grouping at the base of a different tree on the Hornbecks Trail October 25, 2021
- Forest Guardians I love the way these mammoth trees appear to be guarding the forest October 24, 2021
- Forgotten Stairway There appeared to be an entrance to a long forgotten residence off the Hornbecks Trail in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreational Area October 22, 2021
- Macro Mushroom Monday A purple mushroom??? I have never seen anything like this before October 18, 2021
- Reaching Up From the Forest Floor My friend spotted this guy as we were heading back from the Toms Creek Trail October 17, 2021
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What an amazing work of art. The amount of detail is stunning. Thanks for capturing the beauty and bringing it to life.
Thanks Marla!
I agree, great shots, Frank! Can you please elaborate on how you made these photos. Are these HDRs you merged on the PC or did they come straight out of the camera like this? How much post processing did you invest? Thank you for sharing some of your secrets 😉
No secrets. Glad to share. Most of the images are bracketed for HDR purposes. Whenever there are extremes in lighting (in this case there were windows producing bright outside light) I generally will bracket anywhere from 3 to 7 shots. This is, of course, depending on the extremes on the dynamic range. I also use a tripod with a cable release. I use PS-CC for post-processing these images because it can produce a 32 bit file. Which gives you a ton of data to work with. As far as how much time I invest in post, my rule of thumb is if I did 2 hours of shooting, I will probably spend 2 hours on post. Hope that helps. Good luck!
Thank you, Frank, for your advice. Much appreciated and really helpful. I assume you used your “favorite” lens (7-14mm) for most of the cathedral pics, correct? In what camera did you do the bracketing? The E-M5?
Your assumption is correct and I used the EM-5 MkII.