uando llegamos y vi las salinas, casi deshidratadas, confieso que me dio un cierto bajón. La idea preconcebida de hacer una toma del reflejo de la iglesia con el sol poniéndose a sus espaldas empezó a desvanecerse. Conforme iba caminando entre las balsas, comencé a entusiasmarme con las posibilidades que ofrecía la textura de la sal cristalizada. En algunas zonas los humedales permitían hacer capturas de la iglesia reflejada. Pero lo suyo era buscar el punto donde el sol se escondiese detrás de la iglesia. Y en aquel punto no había agua. Pero mi amigo Manolo, más conocido como "Zapicañas" decidió buscar un primer plano potente y se bajó hasta el salar. Viéndolo allí supe que aquella era la foto. Una imagen que refleja todo lo que hemos disfrutado este fin de semana fotográfico en Cabo de Gata con la buena gente de "El Cabo en Fotos"

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This photo of Jaisalmer (one of the most impressive cities in Rajasthan) was taken from a viewpoint, so the composition is "captive". All I had to do is place the horizon in the top third. I waited for the blue hour, and instead of taking the three exposures I usually did, I took a single exposure by turning the histogram to the right and making sure the highlights weren't blown.
With 100 ISO, the low noise of my full-frame mirrorless camera's sensor, and a post-cleaning using PureRaw Dx0 software, I was guaranteed a highly detailed, high-quality shadow shot, without the need for HDR.
The photo is taken with a 50mm lens, F8 aperture and 1 s speed.

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In the absence of a tripod, it is not bad to have the help of Artificial Intelligence. The detail recovery capabilities of the new noise cleanup and detail recovery processing tools are amazing. Here I have worked with several of them.
The blue hour came to me without having any decent support to stabilize the camera. Just a year ago I would have put my hands down and put the equipment in my backpack. But in Delhi he knew that he could count on several alternative assets. First, the sensor on my mirrorless camera is noticeably less noisy, at high ISO, than on the traditional full-frame SLRs I was shooting with until recently. And here I needed to take the photo at 10,000 ISO, if I wanted to have a speed that would freeze the image.
Before starting the processing I have cleaned the noise from the negative and recovered information with PureRaw from DxO. At the end of the processing I have returned to enrich the image information using Topaz's Sharpen AI. Two wonders that tempt me to forget the tripod at home on my next trips (just kidding for now).
The photo was taken with a 14mm lens, an aperture of f8 and a speed of 1/125 s. The recovery of the normal appearance of the perspective I worked with "adaptive width angle" of Photoshop and the light, contrast and everything else with Luminar AI (because Luminar Neo fails as a Photoshop plugin in its last update) and Camera Raw (which I more and more excited).

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We arrived just at twilight at the Qutab Minar in Delhi. Without a tripod, I had to trust everything to my hand, the sensor of my Nikon Z6 and the miraculous noise cleaning and image reconstruction that the PureRaw software does.
This was one of the first shots I did. I selected a 14mm objective, composing with the converging lines of the ruins and the flower bed, so that they directed the view to the minaret, placed on the line of the first vertical third. Aperture of F8, to have focus from the first term to infinity, and a speed of 1/125 to avoid trepidations. The sensation of depth was perfect, but the deformations caused by the extreme angle were inadmissible, especially at the edges of the image and in the tower itself. The processing, after cleaning the file with PureRaw, I have started by correcting the perspective and giving it back a natural look with Photoshop's Adaptive Wide Angle tool, in perspective mode. Then I have recovered light and contrast with some tools based on Artificial Intelligence from Luminar Neo, to continue with a contrasting by zones in Camera Raw and final touches helped by Nik's software and enhancing the point of the sun with Knol Light Factory. To top it off, painted high lights supported by luminosity masks.

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