Beth Carter
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blackwater falls state park in west virginia
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thanks. the last one is what this waterfall is famous for. the water pools in the rocks below and spins as it tries to drain out. i could only find one of the pools, but when the water levels are higher there's supposedly more.Beautiful series, and the last one is a surprise.
thanks stevenson.Love these. May I ask how you processed them? They have a cool slightly diffused hazy quality that I can't quite define but like.
thanks brian. i had a rare free weekend. most of the time i work all week and every 4th weekend. but for the past few years we've gotten a special visitor every single weekend so i've had to work that too. thankfully he didn't come this weekend so i left town. i figured i was going hiking and they can't call me in if i'm 3 states away with limited cell phone service. and of course it was 100 degrees and miserable.Excellent, Beth. As Gianluca said, that last one was a surprise! The new Fuji?
Thanks Beth. Interesting stuff. I've just looked up pro panel and luminosity masks. I use Darktable mostly... starting to wonder if I've been spoilt as it allows absolutely any slider to be limited by a parametric mask which if controled by brightness seems to be in fact a luminosity mask... hmm. I might be missing the pointthanks stevenson.
i used the orton sharp button in pro panel. that's an extension i bought for photoshop. i bought it for its luminosity masks, but it does enough other stuff that i'm happy with it. their orton sharp does some things in the background that i can't see like levels, but it looks like the two main parts are what you'd expect: gaussian blur set to about 60, opacity 15% and high pass filter set to 2.8, blend mode hard light, opacity 75%.
not too sure how darktable works, the luminosity masks just let you pick specific tones as a mask.Thanks Beth. Interesting stuff. I've just looked up pro panel and luminosity masks. I use Darktable mostly... starting to wonder if I've been spoilt as it allows absolutely any slider to be limited by a parametric mask which if controled by brightness seems to be in fact a luminosity mask... hmm. I might be missing the pointbut sounds like a very handy addon to PS !
What a beautiful, inspiring place. And that last image is quite magical. The light on the rocks, top left is sublime.blackwater falls state park in west virginia
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thanks tony. the light was going in and out behind clouds. but when it was out it was hitting the rock by the waterfall perfectly.What a beautiful, inspiring place. And that last image is quite magical. The light on the rocks, top left is sublime.
thanks gary. i only took 3 different compositions. but it's a new camera so i had to play around with settings and setup my focus stacking and reset my focus stacking and ended up with way more frames than i needed...Boy, what a great series although I have to say that I prefer #2 and #3 (but I suspect there are more).
Amazing Beth!
Stacking in camera? My m43 rigs will do that but I still prefer to manually focus and stack. Although I thought about doing some in-camera while shooting the obsidian earlier this week.setup my focus stacking
it only takes the photos for the focus stack. i stack them in helicon. been doing that for yearsStacking in camera? My m43 rigs will do that but I still prefer to manually focus and stack. Although I thought about doing some in-camera while shooting the obsidian earlier this week.
thanks ralph.Beautiful images, Beth, particularly the last one. Looking at the swirling pool is a bit like staring into the witches cauldron..