OutSTANDING photography . . .
. . . and it only took the photographer 8 hours of watching the volcano to capture it:clicky
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As for "finagling". . .absolutely! Personally, I shoot in RAW format and every image is imported for post-processing with minor color, noise reduction, lens correction, etc, filters.
Sure; me, too. Very minor color correction. I tend not to do noise reduction (always use a camera with low noise over your entire ISO range of interest), because it severely distorts the base image no matter how you try and minimize the invasive nature on digital images with noise reduction algorithms; even the best "photographers denoiser tools" will degrade the raw image (I also correct satellite imagery/data used in scientific analysis using 3D transform shrinkage; K-lld; etc...).
...but looking at those images, either the photographer (or, some post-processor digital lab) have done some SERIOUS modifications to the original capture (probably using Lightroom, or some such).
So, when we try and evaluate the photographer's exceptional skills at "being at right place, at right time", and getting those precise qualities one-off from the lense real time, for sure there was a digital post-processing production crew involved. Not just the photographer. Not to say that this is a bad thing, I would LOVE to see the metadata audit trail leading to those highly-processed images (unless the post-process is classified as a trade secret, by those involved, of course) :B
