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Giorgio Rivalta's picture

The Rock of Whytecliff

Hello,
I am new to fstoppers and would like to share one of my last work.
I was lucky enough that day to get a nice dramatic light.
I really couldn't ask for more from nature.
I fired many shots that day and I ended up using 8 different exposures to get the most from all the elements in frame.
I attached them so you can all better understand the process behind the shot.
Being committed to a single composition means that you cannot move the camera for hours when light is changing and that can be risky, but as a reward you get to save all the local colours (especially true for vegetation) that otherwise would be lost when the sun finally set.
That is what the last two exposures are for. They were shot before the sun set, so they carry all the original colours that soon would be gone.
My job is design light for movie, light is what interests me and I love natural light, and by that I mean light that feels natural, that is physically accurated. It breaks my heart seeing over processed images, pictures that has been manipulated so much that you don't perceive it as natural anymore, I didn't want that to happen here for sure. That is why I manually merge exposures together without using any automated process, it takes longer but I like being in control, I know I will respect every each pixel, I will treat it right, I will preserve the natural chiaroscuro in the image, I won't over saturate colours nor crank the clarity slider. And this philosophy, this special care is how I pay my respect to nature when she blesses me with light.

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