Tag: RAW

Misty Day at Windy Hill Preserve

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Trail Head at Windyhill Preserve, Portola Valley, CA, 2016

Windy Hill Preserve is a great place to walk and photograph— this shot was taken in late Fall at the first rise on the trail from the parking lot off Portola Road.

On this misty day, the trail is damp and there are occasional puddles. The light is subdued by cloud cover. I used a tripod to steady my Sigma DP2 Quattro, and set a high f-stop to get a wide depth of field. Three shots were taken; bracketing exposure +1 and -1 ev. The photos were uploaded to Lightroom CC and then processed in HDR Pro (Photo/Edit In/Merge to HDR Pro in Photoshop). The untouched result from HDR Pro was returned to Lightroom, Developed in the Basic Panel, and sharpened before exporting as a web sized file for this blog.

Cheers, Carto

Moving Day — Cantor Art Center

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Moving Day, Serra’s Sequence, Cantor Art Center, Stanford, 2016

This photo was taken at the Cantor Art Center while watching engineers disassemble Richard Serra’s huge steel sculpture Sequence. I was standing on the second floor terrace: Cranes were in action, helicopters were flying, and the welders were at work — what a sight.

This photo will serve as the first header image for this blog. The Echo Theme recommends a header size of 1440 × 600 pixels, so the photo needed to be cropped to that size.

The workflow was as follows:

  1. Open Adobe Lightroom (LR CC, 2015)
  2. Select the header photo, Dscn021.nrw
    (nrw is Nikon’s raw format)
  3. Edit tones in the LR basic panel
  4. Open image in Photoshop CC
  5. Camera Raw workflow: 8000 x 3000 @160 ppi
  6. Save image as CartosOx20150126-DSCN1021.jpg
  7. Crop to 1440 x 600 @ 72 ppi).
  8. Save As jpg (20150126-DSCN1021-HDR1440.jpg)

Both images were uploaded to my blog media folder, and published.

Cheers, Carto