Bill Peake
About the Image(s)
This is an of a glacier in the mountains surrounding Glacier Bay in Alaska on a cruise there in August of 2009.
The image was taken from the cruise ship while it was in Glacier Bay on a Canon Powershot S5 IS, which is a point and shoot camera with a 12X optical zoom. It was set to its automatic mode. The shutter was set to 1/800, the aperture to f/4 and the ISO to 80. The focal length was set to 21mm.
Post processing was done with Adobe Photoshop. The initial image was dehazed and highlights and shadows were adjusted. The image was separated into sky and ground zones with group masks.
For the ground, an unsharp filter was used bring out some more details in castle and foliage. Saturation was increased overall and in the green channel to enhance the foliage. The exposure was increased on the areas of shadow as well.. For the sky brightness and contrast were adjusted to enhance the clouds. Saturation was increased slightly.
I am enclosing the original image for reference.
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11 comments posted
I'm going to disagree with Michael regarding the vignette as in landscapes they so often look unnatural. Instead I would suggest using Lightroom's gradient tool and just bring down the entire sky a tiny bit. To me the bigger issue is the almost blue look to the trees in the middle on the right side. Perhaps using an adjustment to take out some of the blue would be a better choice.
What ever you do, you image makes me want to go visit.
  Posted: 11/07/2020 10:34:23
Its my little secret, but if I apply a vignette, I never mention it. :-)   Posted: 11/13/2020 14:10:20