[MacMeul]

Hello,


I accomplished my dream to sleep one night “under the stars” on the top of MOSES MONT in Sinai

I wanted to share with you my Work et propose a reportage on “mineral beauty of SINAI”

I hope you will Enjoy, Please Find the link :

 

http://chroniques-de-voyages.over-blog.c...89884.html

 




 




Best regards

Yves

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[MacMeul]

Thank you by advance for your comments

 

[obsoquasi]

The desert of Sinai is one of the most beautiful places on earth. I was there a couple of years ago on a 7 day camel trek and I shot about 4500 photos during that time, taking the camera batteries with me in my sleeping bag every night, so they would stay warm. There are however photographical challenges. The colors are sometimes very subtle and putting the images online without any post-processing doesn't do the desert justice. Two things helped me get my photos closer to the real thing, an L.a.b. conversion (using a curve adjustment to steepen the a and b channels) and exposure blending with AEB'ed shots, because the sky was always way to bright - eventhough I was using a polarization filter most of the time. How did you handle the contrasts?


An example from back then: [url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/obsoquasi/4427596566/sizes/o/in/photostream/.%C2][/url]

[MacMeul]

_{Thank you Obsoquasi for your message}

_{firt of all, excuse me for my bad english}

_{For the contrats, in fact, especialy in desert, I work all the time in Manuel Speed and Aperture. And I mesure the light with a "precius" Flashmeter Minolta IV.}

_{I take the picture in RAW (NEF - I have a Niokon D700) and I develop the picture with CAPTURE NX2 (I Love the U-Point technology - almost impossible for me to explain in english ).}

_{Best regards}

_Yves

[obsoquasi]

Hi Yves, 


your English is fine. (mon français est pire!)


I understand your process. So you create a U-Point in the sky and darken it separately. This kind of works, but it's difficult to get the transition right between sky and horizon, especially if it's a little blured. 

[MacMeul]

Thank you for my English

 

You are Wright. With a good measurment of the light, I am sure to get the maximum of details in high and low light area.

 

And with the UPONT technologie, i develop the picture the same way my Gran Father was doing in his argentic photo laboratory, when he was exposing différent laps of time on different parts of the picture (in order to have details in shadow for example).

 

I hope I am quite clear