Arizona Photos

ddodell · Dec 27, 2019

Some photos I took over the last few days after some rain storms in the Phoenix area.

old man mavic · Dec 27, 2019

ddodell said:
Some photos I took over the last few days after some rain storms in the Phoenix area.

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very nice havent seen a sky that blue for a long time

apeel · Dec 28, 2019

My guess are that these are HDR processed images?

ddodell · Dec 28, 2019

apeel said:
My guess are that these are HDR processed images?

Actually not ... both images were taken off 4K video on my Mavic 2 Pro ... using VLC I found the image in the video and grabbed a frame.

I then used Luminar 4 Landscape AI auto settings to obtain the image ... and then added a little sharpening manually.

The original images looked washed out, but the Luminar process cleaned up some of the highlights and made them pop a little more.

Harro · Dec 28, 2019

Very well done.

apeel · Dec 28, 2019

Wow. This indicates some pretty amazing dynamic range in the video. Was the original video shot in Normal, D-Log, pr D-Cinelike mode? H.264 or H265?

ddodell · Dec 28, 2019

Harro said:
Very well done.

Thank you

ddodell · Dec 28, 2019

apeel said:
Wow. This indicates some pretty amazing dynamic range in the video. Was the original video shot in Normal, D-Log, pr D-Cinelike mode? H.264 or H265?

The original was just taken in Normal mode .. H265 ... I'm very much an amateur when it comes to video and photography ... and probably trust auto modes too much ... but being a novice, like to concentrate on being a safe flyer and getting the photos I can.

I will have to say Luminar 4 has really taken my final images to a new level, without much of a learning curve .... have been happy with it.