Throughout the 2014 golf season at Lake Panorama National Golf Course,
I was able to capture the beauty of the course at different times with my
camera. Even with a F2 tornado doing damage on Mother’s Day, the LPN employees along
with help from many volunteers had the course back to superb shape in no time.
This collection was took with the Nikon D90 and D7100 using either the
24 – 120mm or 12-24 mm lense. I shot in aperture priority using an aperture of
f9 – f13 at a base ISO of 100 or 200 on the cameras. Exposure compensation was
set between – 1 to + 0.3 depending on the scene I wanted to capture. As always,
I shot in RAW and used a tripod if I needed too.
Once in View NX, I changed the white balance to direct sunlight and the
picture control to standard or landscape. I created multiply files of the same
image so I could adjust the exposure compensation to -1, 0, +1 to transfer 16 bit
TIFF files into Easy HDR. Over the past
few years, I’ve started too really like what an HDR program can do to a golf
course scene because they do have a wide dynamic range. Easy HDR has a number
of default tone mapping settings and I usually go with Natural 2.
To finish up the images, I opened them up in PSE 11 to do further
enhancements. The first step was using the clone and healing brush to get
unwanted objects out of the image such as water hazard stakes and divots. The
next step was to straighten and crop the image if it needed adjustment. With
bright blue skies and puffy white clouds, I enhanced them on the top of the
image by using a level layers adjustment tied to a layer mask and gradient.
Lastly, I sharpened the image with a high pass filter layer with an opacity
adjusted to around 15%.
It’s hard to believe the leaves have blown off the trees on the golf
course and Mother Nature is about to turn cold. But this summer, the golf
course was bright green from edge to edge.
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