October 2023 - Beginning year 4. This wonderful community keeps me inspired and motivated to keep creating every day.
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Chris, I so love your work and am curious about your processing. As a 365 newcomer, I really want to learn how to improve and I’m pondering how far I can take this with my iPhone 11 (the only camera I currently want to use). Your images are always beautiful, with dramatic light and deep, rich tones. The water in this one is particularly luscious.
@jakb Thanks so much for your kind words. I use a variety of post processing software but rely on Lightroom to do all the preliminary adjustments. After that it depends on my needs, I use Silver Efex Pro for all my black and white conversions, Color Efex Pro for fine tuning my colour images, Photoshop if I need to use layers, remove unwanted objects or do any compositing and Topaz DeNoise for high ISO images. I shoot in RAW so that I have as much data as possible in my image files, this allows for more flexibility in post processing. If you ever decide to move up to a camera that allows you to shoot RAW there are many, many tutorials on you tube to help you come to grips with post processing. In the meantime there is a dandy iPhone app that does a great job with jpeg files and it’s free. Snapseed is available in the App Store and there are a number of YouTube tutorials to guide you. If you have any questions feel free and I will try to answer them for you. Btw, the smooth water in this image was achieved by using a 30 second exposure time.
@maggie208 A fast exposure time freezes any movement in the water, perfect for waves crashing on the rocks or the rooster tail in the wake of a water skier. A long exposure time smooths out choppy water by blurring the ripples leaving a soft, silky surface. It is a common technique for shooting waterfalls.
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