September 22, 2009

A Landscape Photo for All Photographers

It is required. All landscape photographers must have a photo of Yosemite Valley from about the same place that Ansel Adams took many of his photos. I think everyone needs to follow a master so that you can put a little reality back into yourself. Yes, I know this is not as good as his, but, who’s is? I will just live with that!

I took this photo earlier this year and just have not done much with it. I finally decided to convert it to black and white—I think that I have a death wish or something.

Enjoy.

Camera settings: Nikon D700, Nikon 28-70mm f/2.8 at 35mm, shot at ISO 200, f/13 and 1/125th of a second.

Post Processing:

Lightroom—Set white and black points, added mid-tone contrast and added clarity.

Photoshop—used nik Silver Efex Pro to convert photo to black and white.

6 comments:

  1. Nice job Larry. Great capture of a great spot. Ken Burns has a documentary coming up on the National Parks and I saw a list of his top ten parks, which included this one. After I read it I realized I haven't been to any of them! This shot helps solidify my determination to change that.

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  2. Larry "Ansel Adams" Patrick? :-)

    Why bust your hump doing all those lucrative portrait sessions when you can shoot nature for free? :-)

    Beautiful location and nice composition!

    Well done!
    Barry

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  3. Ansel Adams you aren't, however, I would hang this one in my house. I have been to Yosemite many times and I know exactly where you took this one. Great job.
    Debbie

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  4. Very nice. As much as it's photographed, a magnificent site, and really nice postprocessing. I admire how you kept the sky so noise-less.

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  5. Good job even if you are not Mr. Adams. Like to high contrast nature. It brings out the details within the scene.
    Ged

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  6. Not an Ansel Adam but still good. Like the composition and the lighting. The sky really makes the photo.
    The Professor

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