I drove around the course with the D90 in hand equipped with
the 18-105mm or 12-24mm lense. Surprisingly, this was the first time I had the
12-24mm on the golf course and it offered a new wide angle perspective on some
of the beautiful holes. The camera was set to RAW to capture the golf holes in
full color. The aperture of f9 to f14 was used along with the auto bracketing
feature on the D90. This allowed me to get different exposed images at rapid
pace. With plenty of light, the ISO was kept at 200.
Once on the computer, ViewNX was used to change the RAW
files by adjusting the white balance to direct sunlight and the picture control
to landscape-nature. The highlight and shadow protection sliders were used at a
minimum on these images. The final step was changing the RAW files to Tiff’s to
export into PSE8.
In PSE8, I used the cloning tool to clone out hazard stakes
and other items that I didn’t want in the images. Adjustment layers and masks
were used in combination with hue/saturation, brightness/contrast and smart
paint brush to further enhance the images. The ability to stack layers and
masks on top of each other is one of the biggest processing powers of Photoshop.
The golf course will soon be covered in snow but the beauty of
Lake Panorama National GC will be back in the spring to greet golfers once
again.
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