Originally posted by jva59 Gosh, Rondec, those are great! How do you achieve that subtle painterly character?
It is really about finding the right light and the right scene. I'm not a master of it by any means.
I usually take a series of bracketed shots. Most of the time, I will choose one of the shots that is underexposed by a couple of shots to work on and then basically try to bring the photo to what my mind remembers the scene to look like. Some of the time, I take the photos to Photomatix and work on them there before bringing them back to lightroom to work on them.
Honestly, it is the K5 that really is the lynch pin here. I shoot at iso 80 on a tripod and I often need every bit of dynamic range that it offers in order to get a well-exposed final image that pleases me.