Under Tension

To my eyes the all mighty technology is about to rule over the nature. A novel and dynamic juxtaposition being this succesfull by the deep DOF of LX3.My wild guess is that your camera position was quite difficult thus making the framing a challenge here.

As an owner of LX3 I'd like to ask about your take on the color rendering: have you considered to fine tune the WB on your camera? What about exposure compensation? Pardon me asking this kind of questions, but then again you are among the few who manage to write comments beyond one-liners.

BTW Welcome back, it's long time no see...

Hi Markku, Nice to hear from you again. On the LX-3, I almost always shoot in manual with auto whiteboard and then make adjustments in Aperture 3. I find the auto whiteboard is pretty accurate or easily adjusted afterwards.

The printed version of this shot has more dynamic range. When I posted here, it closed up. When I make adjustments it is always for a specific storytelling purposes. In this case, I wanted the Yucca plant blooms to be luminous, otherworldly. If I could successfully set the contrast between the blooms and the severe angular dissection of the sky, the viewer can finish the story in their own terms.

I don't use exposure compensation. I use manual mode, ISO 200-400 , spot meter, 16:9, standard mode, 24mm wide, raw and finish in Aperture 3 usually with tweaks to the edge sharpening, definition, and cropping.