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Justify Your Gear, Show Us Your Best Modern Photographs
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This is four copies in a collage of a single photo taken at sunrise, Nov. 2018 at Zabriskie Pt. in Death Valley, California. Nothing in the camera or lens is current cutting edge--Nikon D750, with 70-300mm Zoom at f25, 1/10 sec., ISO 320, on tripod.

However, for a recent camera club presentation in The Woodlands, Texas, I used some new bells and whistles in Photoshop. First, the frame tool was used to create the four frames of the collage. The top left photo is "normal' minor tweaks. Top right is application of saturation and color mixing to push most of the browns to black, and to bleach out the yellows.

Bottom left is application of the Neural Filter, Landscape Mixer to simulate the photo at night in winter. For those nostalgic for the 1970s, in the bottom right I pushed the post-production sliders until I got a "groovey" effect. All four versions received the neural Super Zoom.

In late 2018, I was still on my learning curve with the new-to-me D750 and my transition from PS Express to the full, inscutable Photoshop. I don't think I felt comfortable with using RAW (Nikon NEF) then, and it appears that the shot was a hi-res JPEG, not RAW.

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