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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 348480" data-attributes="member: 9240">You short change yourself, but I appreciate the compliment and would absolutely LOVE to spend 3 days out there shooting with you and Dave.&nbsp; Here's what you've got to tell yourself.&nbsp; One, you pretty much know how to take a good photograph.&nbsp; Two, your camera doesn't suck.&nbsp; So, assuming you check your work as you go along you're going to come back with images that should process well.&nbsp; The real question is, can you make the most out of them immediately?&nbsp; Given the discussions we've had on here about luminosity masks and whatnot the answer is a definite, &quot;No!&quot;&nbsp; But, the good news is that you can archive the files and come back to them as you learn new techniques and tweak them closer to where you would probably want them.My recommendation to you would be to spend some time watching Jimmy McIntyre's videos on using luminosity masks and doing HDR-like image blending with them rather than typical HDR tools.&nbsp; He's got some great, free Actions that I've started using that have made a big difference in my images of late (a key for me is his Detail Enhancer, which takes a long time to run but bumps the details in an amazing way without being over the top like you might get with the Detail Extractor or Dynamic Contrast tools in Nik and onOne).&nbsp; Again, you can always save your work and come back to it down the road.I'm really looking forward to seeing what you come up with.&nbsp; It's gonna be fun.&nbsp; And I suspect the lake will be somewhat start given the drought conditions out there.&nbsp; Seems it's currently 11 feet below the current managed levels (<a href="http://www.monolake.org/today/2014/03/23/mono-lake-amidst-a-drought/" target="_blank">Mono Lake amidst a drought | The Mono-logue</a>).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 348480, member: 9240"] You short change yourself, but I appreciate the compliment and would absolutely LOVE to spend 3 days out there shooting with you and Dave. Here's what you've got to tell yourself. One, you pretty much know how to [I]take[/I] a good photograph. Two, your camera doesn't suck. So, assuming you check your work as you go along you're going to come back with images that [I]should[/I] process well. The real question is, can you make the most out of them immediately? Given the discussions we've had on here about luminosity masks and whatnot the answer is a definite, "No!" But, the good news is that you can archive the files and come back to them as you learn new techniques and tweak them closer to where you would probably want them. My recommendation to you would be to spend some time watching Jimmy McIntyre's videos on using luminosity masks and doing HDR-like image blending with them rather than typical HDR tools. He's got some great, free Actions that I've started using that have made a big difference in my images of late (a key for me is his Detail Enhancer, which takes a [I]long[/I] time to run but bumps the details in an amazing way without being over the top like you might get with the Detail Extractor or Dynamic Contrast tools in Nik and onOne). Again, you can always save your work and come back to it down the road. I'm really looking forward to seeing what you come up with. It's gonna be fun. And I suspect the lake will be somewhat start given the drought conditions out there. Seems it's currently 11 feet below the current [I]managed[/I] levels ([url=http://www.monolake.org/today/2014/03/23/mono-lake-amidst-a-drought/]Mono Lake amidst a drought | The Mono-logue[/url]). [/QUOTE]

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