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  1. Dave Johnston

    Back side of Seneca Rocks

    Thanks Ben, Jameel, Alan, Jim, Darcy and Douglas! Jim, thanks so much for the Daily Featured! This group of slackliners frequents Seneca Rocks, for obvious reasons. Me and a couple other photographers have been working with them looking for a chance to set up a moon shot of them. It didn't...
  2. Dave Johnston

    Back side of Seneca Rocks

    Seneca Rocks in West Virginia is an iconic cliff formation where fins of resistant sandstone layer jut several hundred feet vertically out of the hills below North Fork Mountain. Several billion pictures, by everyone from casual tourists to professionals, have been taken from its front, west...
  3. Seneca Rocks Back Side Sunburst.jpg

    Seneca Rocks Back Side Sunburst.jpg

  4. Dave Johnston

    Milky Way over the New River Gorge

    Thanks, Ben, Alan, Bob and Jim! I agree that the lights on the ground are distracting, but they are part of the story. The New River Gorge is no pristine wilderness. It has a long history of mining and timbering, and active railroads still traverse both sides of the river for the entire length...
  5. Dave Johnston

    Milky Way over the New River Gorge

    I was back down in the New River Gorge area last week. I was being juried as an accepted artist for Tamarack, a showcase for the best of West Virginia arts and crafts. I was accepted (woohoo!) which means I can submit images to the several exhibitions they have during the year as well as place...
  6. Mily Way Thurmond.jpg

    Mily Way Thurmond.jpg

  7. Twilight Fireworks.jpg

    Twilight Fireworks.jpg

  8. Seneca Rocks Milky Way Fireworks.jpg

    Seneca Rocks Milky Way Fireworks.jpg

  9. Dave Johnston

    Blackwater River Views

    Thanks, Douglas! Dave
  10. Dave Johnston

    Blackwater River Views

    Thanks Alan, Ben, Amy, Alisa, Jameel and Jim! It has been a while since I have done any new pictures of the "other side" of the Blackwater River, but i'll post them when I do! Dave
  11. Dave Johnston

    Blackwater River Views

    The Blackwater River starts in and traverses Canaan Valley (the highest elevation large valley east of the Rockies). Much of the Valley is wetland and dominated by the Canaan Valley Wildlife Refuge and two state parks. After about a 12 mile winding path across the valley, the Blackwater cuts a...
  12. Dave Johnston

    Sunset over the New River Gorge

    Thank you, @Kyle Jones . I never did solve the problem of inconsistent effects when applying the same adjustments to different images in the same panorama. I noticed that the Exposure slider does not seem to have this problem - it lightens or darkens every part of each image to the same degree...
  13. Dave Johnston

    Sunset over the New River Gorge

    Thanks, Tom! Dave
  14. Dave Johnston

    Sunset over the New River Gorge

    Thanks, Jameel, Alisa and Jon! Dave
  15. Dave Johnston

    Sunset over the New River Gorge

    Thanks for your tests, Ken. Even though I understand that they are trying to make it more responsive to the image, that is counterproductive for cases where you specifically need the same content to be treated the same by the same adjustment across multiple images. When you say Version 2 or...
  16. Dave Johnston

    Sunset over the New River Gorge

    Yes, I would hope that once the frame are stitched together, that ACR or Lightroom would treat them the same throughout the image. But I need to develop the raw images before I can stitch them. And it is in that development process, still working with separate images, that this happens. Yes, I...
  17. Dave Johnston

    Sunset over the New River Gorge

    I shoot with white balance fixed at Daylight, always. This isn't a color balance problem, but rather lightness. I have no trouble with white balance, it stays uniform from frame to frame. Also, I notice that the Exposure slider does not cause this problem -- changing it lightens or darkens the...
  18. Dave Johnston

    Sunset over the New River Gorge

    Thanks so much Alan, Ben, Mike Jim and Ken. Jim, I really appreciate the Featured Photo honor! @Ken Rennie , you are right, and I intend to do edits similar to what you suggest. I just discovered the reason that some of my recent panoramas have a gradient of lightness that is not in the...
  19. Dave Johnston

    Sunset over the New River Gorge

    This kind of falls in the category of "I didn't deserve this, but I'll take it!" My girlfriend and I went down to Beckley, WV to drop off pictures for an exhibition we had both been selected for, and were just spending the rest of the day poking round the new River Gorge (our newest National...
  20. Lacy Sunset Upper Blackwater.jpg

    Lacy Sunset Upper Blackwater.jpg

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