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The Art of Photography => Landscape Showcase => Topic started by: plugsnpixels on March 04, 2021, 01:14:18 pm

Title: Magical San Gabriel Mountains this morning
Post by: plugsnpixels on March 04, 2021, 01:14:18 pm

...and what they really looked like.

Grabbed with the iPhone while on an errand and post-processed.

Title: Re: Magical San Gabriel Mountains this morning
Post by: plugsnpixels on March 04, 2021, 01:15:45 pm

Less magical, more artsy.

Title: Re: Magical San Gabriel Mountains this morning
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on March 04, 2021, 07:33:37 pm

That very magical first image is fantastic. The others are nice, but that is just so in-your-face, unapologetically magical. I love it!

Title: Re: Magical San Gabriel Mountains this morning
Post by: plugsnpixels on March 04, 2021, 07:41:48 pm

Thanks Eric, I was quite surprised to see how this turned out!

This is actually a zoomed-in iPhone capture sequence, panorama'd together in Photoshop and finished in Topaz Gigapixel and Studio 2. Because I was just outside briefly to meet a colleague and wasn't expecting a photo opportunity...

Title: Re: Magical San Gabriel Mountains this morning
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on March 04, 2021, 11:12:28 pm

That gives further support for the saying that the best camera is the one you have with you!

Title: Re: Magical San Gabriel Mountains this morning
Post by: plugsnpixels on March 05, 2021, 12:22:34 am

And it's always the wrong one, ha!

Even worse are those "memory" photos from when you had NOTHING...