This shot was done with the same camera & lens, but HDR-processed in Photomatix. PSE again removed barrel distortion and straightened/resized the image; Luminar was used for some color correction. Looking north to the San Francisco Sunset District and Marin County / Point Reyes beyond:
Lastly, here's a shot of Ocean View Farms at sunset, just as I was getting off the mountain. This was HDR-processed in the free Luminance tool (Fattal operator):
Enjoy!
Beautiful pictures and thank you for sharing them.
No offense intended, but what is it with photography types that they think all the rest of us care what the technical details of their equipment and etc. are?
Isn’t it enough that we ignorant types appreciate your work?
Those images have been heavily manipulated, likely in Photoshop.
Great pictures. A few months ago, I considered buying a first-generation Olympus OM-D M1 camera but eventually got a Panasonic GH4, which is similar.
It’s hard to believe that millions of people live just a few miles from these places.
Wow. Just make sure not to bend over because it’s in the Gay Bay area.
We drove up to the top of Mount Umunhum yesterday for sunset. If you get a chance head down to the south bay and check it out. You can see from the ocean to across the bay. It was a bit hazy yesterday, but the sunset was beautiful.
Your image manipulation is largely very appealing with the exception of shadow density, in which case distant shadows are weak and a bit unreal looking. I tend not to rely so much upon filters but upon masking layers. One of my favorite tricks is to create a black and white halftone layered directly over the top of the original color image (select all, copy, paste into new document (do not flatten image). Photoshop will size new document to the size of the copied graphics. Then, select grayscale to make black and white. You can play around with detail, contrast, sharpening and filters in this document if you want. Then, in the layers menu, copy the black and white layer to the original file. Once it’s placed, then play with “darken,” “multiply” or any number of other functions. You can even fully or partially erase the overlaying halftone (actually RGB or CMYK when you copy it into a color document but it still looks black and white). Doing this can create a silvery effect, make it look a bit like a colorized sepia photo if you change the color balance in the “halftone” layer, or it can be used to neutralize unwanted color shifts or casts.
Beautiful locations, too, by the way, especially this time of year. I used to love to go up to Muir Woods in late summer/early fall because of the woodsy, spicey scents in the air. Smells awesome, I know the eucalyptus are viewed as something of a pest and invasive but I hope they don’t get rid of them all. I also liked going over to Stinson Beach and beyond, the view of the Pacific driving atop those cliffs is amazing.
Your Photoshopping skills perfectly complement your photography. Very dreamlike images.
Hello all. Another great hike this week, this time to the top of Montara Mountain (to North Peak). First time up there...what a spectacular place. Pretty grueling, too. Eight miles round trip and the top is over 1,800 feet (and starting at sea level).
Go to the first post in this thread for hike info and three pics.
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I still have my Olympus OM-1. Used to develop B&W
And there is an elk bugling outside my window
Wow! I wish I was there.