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Mono Lake Sunset Moon Rise

This is a re-edit of a Winter moon rise I captured at Mono Lake in 2009. Both the original edit and the new one are HDRs produced in Photomatix but the new one I also post-processed in +Adobe Photoshop Lightroom before and after the HDR to make the result a little more realistic.  You can get a version of Photomatix with an interface to export highlighted files directly to Photomatix in TIFF format, then re-import the result when you're done, so the process is much more efficient as well.

HDR-Friendly Workflow, Using Adobe Lightroom for Realistic Results
http://activesole.blogspot.com/2011/03/hdr-friendly-workflow-use-lightroom-34.html

The earlier result processed in Photomatix only ended up too saturated. The sunset and moon were both bright and colorful as experienced onsite, and with my updated software and workflow, I'm able to produce a result much more true to the event.

This year you can join me on landscape photography workshops for any of the first three weekends in October, or in Yosemite for Fall colors in November:  http://www.MyPhotoGuides.com

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Mono Lake, Eastern Sierra, California.  This is a re-edit of a Winter moon rise I captured at Mono Lake in 2009. Both the original edit and the new one are HDRs produced in Photomatix, but the new one I also port-processed in Adobe Lightroom before and after the HDR to make the result a little more realistic. The earlier one ended up too saturated. The sunset and moon were both bright and colorful, and with my updated software and workflow, this is more true to the event.

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Jeff Sullivan

Jeff Sullivan leads landscape photography workshops in national parks and public lands throughout California and the American West.

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  • Have you tried using Lightroom (4.1)or later) to Tone map the 32 Bit image instead of letting Photomatix do the  Tonemapping and only tweeking the final result in Lightroom? Some people prefer it, some people are mistaken into thinking Ligtroom is the only thing that works on 32 bit files but that's another story

  • I've heard that's a great way to go to work on realistic high dynamic range images +Peter Tellone, but I've been so busy on my book in recent months i haven't had much time to play with it.  

    One of my favorite ways to work with the early releases of Photomatix was to use the Batch -> Average mode, which brought highlight and shadow detail into the resulting TIFF file, without any distracting artifacts.  The TIFF file could then be adjusted and worked on with any image editing software.  It was a great way to deal with the relatively low dynamic range of digital sensors, particularly at that time.

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