Photo of the Week 2024-10-21

 

I was still going through a bit of a backlog of images from Scotland, selecting, editing, processing when the Aurora Borealis event of Oct 10 struck. That provided a totally new experience of shooting, selecting, editing and processing which I blogged about those last week. Now, as I turn back to Scotland, the autumn colours here in Southern Ontario are firing off and of course I'm drawn capture them ...

... although I'm always eager to get to my latest captures, I also want to make the time to continue learning processing methods and techniques. Like my cameras, there is still much capability that I don't know about and use. Today's learning, included reworking an image after viewing an online tutorial showing how to use some of the latest Lightroom masking techniques to transform RAW files.

' Rocky Perch IV.v2 - reworked '

' Rocky Perch IV - initial version '

In the reworked version I used the sky masking feature to increase structure, detail and tame the highlights. I also used a radial gradient to enhance the natural sidelight from the sun, subject masking to bring up shadow detail slightly in the cliff. Finally, I used both radial and linear gradients to darken the foreground and bring more attention to the sunlit castle ruins.
 

 

DJE