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Stunning Glacier National Park, Montana
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Originally posted by WhiplashTX View PostWow, your pics actually do Glacier NP justice.
If you don't mind giving up your process, what program are you using for PP and what is your secret to getting such vibrance? When I try to pull the extra color depth my pics usually look overexposed.
I use Lightroom for all PP...as far a secret, it is just a matter of playing with it until it looks right. I actually very rarely touch the vibrance and saturation sliders...most adjustments I make are with the highlights/shadows sliders, blacks/whites, and then I also occasionally adjust the sliders for the luminance of individual colors which controls how bright they appear...most of the time time in these cases it's to tone down the unnatural ones rather that to boost their vibrance.
Of course, as always, the colors look best when shot with the best light...in the middle of the day they will look washed out, as opposed to early morning or late evening they are much more vivid
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Thanks for the tips, I'm just learning Lightroom and I guess I am using the saturation slider too much.
I made the move to FF with a 6D about a year ago so I have been playing around in low light a lot more. Even in bright light I noticed I have to back down about -2/3 EV with the new camera.
Originally posted by LightHunter View PostThanks!
I use Lightroom for all PP...as far a secret, it is just a matter of playing with it until it looks right. I actually very rarely touch the vibrance and saturation sliders...most adjustments I make are with the highlights/shadows sliders, blacks/whites, and then I also occasionally adjust the sliders for the luminance of individual colors which controls how bright they appear...most of the time time in these cases it's to tone down the unnatural ones rather that to boost their vibrance.
Of course, as always, the colors look best when shot with the best light...in the middle of the day they will look washed out, as opposed to early morning or late evening they are much more vivid
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Originally posted by treestand View PostOutstanding pics! Thanks for sharing.
Glacier is one of the very few national parks I have not been to and I do want to rectify that. My wife is not able to do much hiking (bad knees). Can one drive through the park and do it justice?
For the best picturesque views without leaving the roadway, the Grand Teton/Yellowstone area is your best bet in the lower 48. If you have 2-3 weeks, you can do all three since the drive to Glacier from Yellowstone can be done in a day.
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Originally posted by treestand View PostOutstanding pics! Thanks for sharing.
Glacier is one of the very few national parks I have not been to and I do want to rectify that. My wife is not able to do much hiking (bad knees). Can one drive through the park and do it justice?
Glacier definitely has one of the prettiest roads in all of the US known as the Going to the Sun Road...but that's the main road through the park and you can easily drive it in a day. There are a few other roads that are one-way-in, one-way-out types of roads on the east side of the park. If you watch the video in the original post, the clips on the roads gives you an idea of what you can see from the roads.
As WhiplashTX mentioned, Yellowstone/Grand Teton is much more conducive to driving/sightseeing with many of the main "attractions" fairly easily accessible.
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