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Another Stream Shot From Montana

By Scott on Monday, September 24th, 2007 at 1:18 am | updates.

Here’s another from my Montana workshop (click on it for the larger version, which looks much better). I only had time to go through a few of the shots I’ve taken, because we had been going nonstop from dawn till late at night, but I took this one last night, as we returned to the stream where we shot earlier in the week, because it was another overcast night.

The shot isn’t really a pano; it’s just “pano cropped” (Bill Fortney gave the idea while I was processing the image in Lightroom (all the processing, sharpening, and cropping was done in Lightroom). I read a number of comments posted this week asking if I would share the camera settings for the shots I post, and I’m more than happy to (thanks for the suggestion):

SPECS: Taken with a Nikon D200 (Bill was shooting [read as: hogging] the D3, since we were shooting in really low light; I don’t blame him). I used a 70-200mm f/2.8 lens (racked out to 200mm), and I shot in Aperture Priority mode at f/22 (to keep the shutter open as long as possible to create the silky water effect), which gave me a nice long shutter speed of 30 seconds. I also used a Singh-Ray Vari-ND filter to make things even darker, so I’d get that really long shutter speed. The ISO was set to 100.

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^#1

Hey Scott - would you be able to share with us your sharpening settings in LR? I have your books (LR and Photoshop CS3) and I’ve been following your sharpening tips there.

Also, is sharpening in LR better than the luminosity sharpening method? Or do you use it for images that you output to the web only?

Thanks!

Mike Lao on September 24th, 2007 at 2:09 am

^#2

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR POSTING THE SETTINGS FROM YOUR SHOTS, I’VE BEEN LOOKING FORWARD TO IT!!! GREAT IDEA!!!

Carlo on September 24th, 2007 at 2:50 am

^#3

If possible, could you take duplicate shots using the D200 and the D3 and post both pictures? I’d love to the comparison, especially of low-light shots. Thanks.

Susan on September 24th, 2007 at 11:44 am

^#4

Hi Scott,

I love your work and love shooting in MT and manage to get up there, from CA, at least once or twice a year. Any chance you could post any information about where you are shooting?

-Ed

Ed Shields on September 24th, 2007 at 11:49 am