Tag: Eastern Sierra

Sunset at Minarets Vista

Sunset at Minarets Vista

Sunset and sunrise are the hardest images to work on in post – contrast issues, color issues, detail issues.  My own monitors vary in color quality – I have one that always veers to over-saturation, so I use the other to attempt to reach some semblance of what I saw / see (not see-saw, see?) or want to evoke.  The colors on this monitor are more subdued and not overdone, but I always wonder if the results are any good.  That’s the problem, I guess, with cheap monitors.  And, I am too cheap to replace them . . .

A View from the Owens Valley

The Easter Sierra from Hwy 395

The Owens Valley has an interesting history.  Essentially, Los Angeles, the city, took all its water for itself.  It is also where the Manzanar Concentration Camp interred thousands of Japanese American citizens during the dark and scary days of World War II.  While not the horrific camps of the German Nazis, these internment camps were still horrors in their own right, and a blight on America’s history of human rights.