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Examples: Alabama Hills, April
These examples shot in the Alabama Hills near Mt Whitney.
See the first page of examples shot in March.
Includes images up to full camera resolution and panoramas much larger.
View over White Granite Boulders and Sages and Grasses past Alabama Hills formations to Mt Whitney Peaks
This 7-frame focus stacked image is lovely—the detail and color and the rendering of the desert inand the color combinations and shadowing and lighting and contrasting colors of oranges and blues are just great. I love the way I can use the 50/3.5 for focus stacking.
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Fujifilm GFX100 + Fujifilm GF 50mm f/3.5 R LM WR @ 41.1mm equiv (50mm) + polarizer Zeiss
ENV: Alabama Hills, altitude 5150 ft / 1570 m, 55°F / 12°C
RAW: LACA corrected, distortion corrected, vignetting corrected, push 0.45 stops, +81 Shadows, -100 Highlights, +50 Whites, +20 Clarity, USM {10,50,0}, SmartSharpen{40,0.8,20,0}
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