Mono Lake Sunset Moon Rise

AMAZING …. THAT BEAUTIFUL PLACES, AND GIVES ME THIS PICTURE PEACE! THANK YOU!

What a gorgeous shot!!  Love those reflections!!!

Have you tried using Lightroom (4.1)or later) to Tone map the 32 Bit image instead of letting Photomatix do the  Tonemapping and only tweeking the final result in Lightroom? Some people prefer it, some people are mistaken into thinking Ligtroom is the only thing that works on 32 bit files but that's another story

Fantastic, love the colors!

Hmm..interesting, never tried that.

Yep you are a busy guy so you get the pass LOL
Great Image  Jeff!

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Thanks for sharing!

Thanks +Peter Tellone, it is on my "to do" list!  Of course by the time I get to it many brands of photo editing software  will have new versions, so I'll get to re-evaluate my workflow all over again!  
It's a shame that some of the evaluations periods are only two weeks.  Given that I don't have a lot of spare time, I couldn't get very far in my recent tests of +Nik Photography's offerings.

Belleza….

For wildfire still images +amedeejob andre, including the Rim Fire, my most complete collection is over on Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffreysullivan/sets/72157635292944052/

Not really +R. Brooke Fox, it was the sum of all issues with low dynamic range, especially noise in the shadows.  First of all the color and contrast for images produced on 2008-era sensors tended to turn out best on under-exposed images.  That's why I was bracketing in the first place.  The darkest image often provided a reference copy to aim for in the final result, but detail in the shadows could not be adequately recovered without using additional exposures.  If I can achieve that in 5 minutes with a quick out and back trip into software which will do it automatically without a lot of tedious content-specific editing, I'm all for it.  Since I do try to process individual images first and I use the best possible single image edit as the reference to paste into the adjacent exposures, when the HDR result  comes back I can immediately see if it's better or worse.  In this case the color rendering also turned out better than what I could produce in Lightroom.  

So really it ends up being a competitive shootout rather than a pre-determined workflow or bias.  May the best process and result win.  

As long as the processing doesn't seriously muck up the subject (take center stage over the subject itself), it remains a candidate for selection.  (That's a position I've migrated to over time, so not all of my work from say 7 years ago would reflect that.)

There are a couple of things I'd continue to work on in this image if I had infinite time, but efficiency is a consideration as well.  No doubt it'll get better when I revisit it for a few minutes a year or two or three from now, or maybe I'll take a new image which effectively replaces it in my collection.

It's probably partly my own fault +amedeejob andre since I have been using Google+ mainly to socialize and to meet other photographers to shoot with in photowalks and informal meetings.  Living out here surrounded by nature is great, but we humans are social creatures, so it's also rewarding to connect with other photographers coming up this way.

I've also been less active on G+ in recent months.  While I tended to post on G+ as much as 4-5 times per day in the first year, and every day for most of the second year, when G+ community response seemed to take a drop for me last Spring that gave me the opportunity to walk away and properly focus on completing the book, maybe briefly visiting G+ once or twice a week.  That also provided me with incentive to develop a broader and more healthy social media strategy, since I had been focusing on G+ as much as 95%, yet I seemed to get more recognition and customers through Facebook (I've even warmed up to Twitter recently).

I've been reluctant to mention the book project much until it was close to completion.  Lately I have been looking forward to having more time to plan and conduct more workshops as well.  So my participation on Google+ will probably evolve a bit as my professional activity changes to involve more things accessible to the general community of photographers.  That's not to say that I'll abandon my socialization (online and offline as time permits), just that I'll mix in more professional notices and activity so I can recoup some of the investment I've made in researching the best landscape photography locations in California and producing the book.

Most photographers can't afford to travel much +amedeejob andre.  If they are travelling, 99% of the time they're getting the income from somewhere else to pay for the travel.  That's why I decided to live up in the mountains… so I don't have to travel hours or days to reach my subjects.

I wake up early almost every day to check sunrise and on many mornings or evenings I simply walk 50 meters from my front door: 
https://plus.google.com/photos/107459220492917008623/albums/5675675387196096801

Wedding photography can pay well if you rise to the top of the field, but most landscape photographers I know who entered the field within the last 5-10 years have a second job to pay for their photographic pursuits.  It's like anything else people are passionate about… being a surf bum or a ski bum… you settle for low or nomadic living conditions to do what you love, and it's hard to make much of a living, because people like it so much there will always be someone else out there ready to undercut your prices imply to do it (consider all the amateur photographers now who will give a photo away for worthless "credit").  There's a saying int eh wine business that all it takes to make a little money in the wine business is… a lot of money.  It's the same with photography.  The good camera gear tends to be expensive, the computers and software are expensive, and if you want to travel, that's expensive.  So get a great job to pay for going into photography.

I lived out of my car for much of 2006 – 2009, so I could sleep and wake right where my photography was… use the money which otherwise would have gone towards a home or renting an apartment to instead cover gas and food.  I wanted to eat, sleep, breathe photography.  It's not for everyone, and the story isn't over by a long shot, but I've had some amazing experiences, some nice successes, and I think it's going to turn out well.

Oh yeah you're absolutely right i'm agree with you +Jeff Sullivan I not wanted to tell that photographers living the good life etc.. .I respect them and all the passionate peoples whose "sacrifice" part of them way of life ..I'm a "lil" musician and do that at the start when I bought about 11 k € for .I wanted to say that I'd liked see for real all these landscapes and respect those who share them own pics to us

wow!!!!!

Bella -;0)

Thanks much for the detailed response, and best wishes.

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Beautiful

Nice pic

Thanks +Susan Kolbasuk.  Ironically, my freedom to pursue photography came about in part thanks to my divorce:
Western States Photography Tour: Across Nevada – A Twisted Tale
http://activesole.blogspot.com/2006/10/day-1-across-nevada-twisted-tale.html

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