Trona Pinnacles

[sandman935]

Before:



After:



Shot with a Nikon D50 and the 18-200mm VR lens. Exposure: 1/3200 sec Aperture: f/4.5 Focal Length: 36 mm ISO Speed: 200 Exposure Bias: 1/3 EV

In post processing, adjusted white balance, black, brightness, and contrast using Adobe Camera RAW. In Photoshop, added more contrast, lightened shadows, and converted to Lab Color before adjusting color saturation. Lastly sharpened and cropped.

[OlsonN]

wow, excellent transformation. The colors look great.

[prince]

Thanks for the step by step process. Looks great now..

[Quo Fan]

Nice work, looks great.

[HockeyFan]

Thanks for sharing this. It's good to see how well you did before and after.

[Mollman]

Great work!

[blueandwhitehoops]

Superb work...you would never guess the final result came from the first shot, impressive

[Atlas88]

Did you use a polarizer by chance? The corners of the sky (top) look slightly darker, and as you didn't mention applying a vignette in PP.... Or perhaps you used spot metering? Hmm......

[sandman935]

Originally Posted by Atlas88

Did you use a polarizer by chance? The corners of the sky (top) look slightly darker, and as you didn't mention applying a vignette in PP.... Or perhaps you used spot metering? Hmm......

Forgot that part. Yeah... added a slight vignette too. No polarizer filter.

[rsambuca]

Great work there Sandman. I think you managed to take it precisely as far as you could without making it look artificial.