It was too nice to stay inside, so I grabbed my camera and drove out of town a little way. Earlier in the day the sky was a nice mix of blue (well, as blue as Louisiana skies ever get) and well-defined but still wispy “mares tails” cirrus clouds (i.e., nice). By the time I got out the mares tails had degenerated into a high, very thin cirrus overcast that turned most of the sky almost white. Also, the lake was glassy smooth except when I pushed the shutter button…
Nothing hugely special, but this was shot with my Canon DSLR and a Ricoh Rikenon P 50mm f/1.7 lens (manual) and processed in ART. I thought it might be interesting to see how others interpret the shot.
I believe you underrate your sensor and what you can achieve with it. One of my current students has a 12MP full frame. I will take your 24MP over that camera any bright day. Maybe in the dark of night his larger individual photosites would capture more light, but the noise probably depends more on the vintage of the camera than photosite size.
Here is my interpretation of your shot inspired by your last landscape.
EDIT: I decided to use some bloom from the diffuse or sharpen module here, but the extent of the bloom was not correctly revealed until the exported image was uploaded.
I’ve probably been watching too many YT photographers with their 45, 50, 100mp cameras. LOL If I had such a sensor, my computer would choke while processing their raw files!
My biggest frustration (or at least one one them) is that I almost always feel I’m trying to pull a rabbit from a hat when processing. It’s like the image, as shot, never seems capable of standing on its own. I never feel like I’ve actually captured a good image, so I have to spiff it up …
You came very close to how the sky looked in person. I was pleased with it earlier in the day but it took a turn for the worse by the time I got out. This kind of sky is unfortunately pretty common here – bright white overcast.
