Michael Menefee Photography

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The Variety Collection

My images in this gallery are used in other galleries or for elements of the website, but please do feel free to browse/shop it if you are curious. You will find a large potpourri of my photography in this collection with image subjects ranging from urban to wilderness.
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Power to the Prairie!
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Power to the Prairie!

Even the enormous Rawhide Power Plant in northeastern Colorado turns to tiny in context... Image Notes: This intense cloud-laden high contrast scene with an incredibly wide dynamic range made for a perfect excuse to do some HDR. This photograph is based on 7 exposures 1EV apart (-3EV - +3EV), merged in Photoshop & then tone-mapped with Photomatix for contrast/luminosity and tone-mapped in Dynamic Photo HDR for color. These two resulting HDR files were then layered on the 0 EV exposure and blended down, the Photomatix one primarily in luminosity mode and the Dynamic Photo-HDR on color. Finally, I made a copy of that file and converted it to 8bit where a slight bit of LucisArt was applied to bring out extra cloud details (1 pass exposure at 60% and faded on luminosity at 45% opacity and 1 pass Wyeth at 40% and faded on luminosity at 25% opacity). The LucisArt image was then placed back on the 16bit working file and blended down at around 70% opacity. That's the main workflow. One other key ingredient was Noiseware Pro which was applied on a surface mask to protect detail.

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  • Lower Multnomah Falls Night Flow
  • Tumalo Falls Exposed
  • Linked to the Death of Many Flies
  • RGB Hour
  • Lavalands to Cascades--Life Around Bend, OR
  • An Epiphytic Episode in the Hoh Rain Forest
  • Stoned Duality on the Strait of Juan de Fuca
  • Lunar Beachcomber's Delight
  • Great Sunny Egret Soaring
  • My 2008 Summer Olympics
  • Summertime Depth Sounding at Oxbow Bend
  • Rocky Mountain National Park's Got Curves!
  • That Elka Lisa Smile
  • Power to the Prairie!
  • A Yellow-bellied Marmot Morning
  • First Light at 14,259 feet (4,346 m)  on Longs Peak
  • Impermanent Icey Resplendence
  • Last Light on the Range
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