About the Image(s)

f/4 1/40 second ISO 500 EV -0.33 24mm
Canon 6D (from 2014) Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L lens

I’ve been stuck indoors lately due to the extreme cold here lately, so I have been going through some old photos. This photo is from 2014. This is with my old Canon 6D camera which is very limited compared to modern cameras.

I spent several hours working on this photo one day but couldn’t get it right. That night I was doing Photoshop in my dreams and I worked out the formula. I got up the next morning and started over again from the original RAW file and had it exactly how I wanted in in about 20 minutes.
This sort of thing happens to me all the time.

No part of this image was created with AI. I did a lot of dodging, but no burning. I went around the edges of the mountains and trees on the sky line and removed some halos with the clone tool. I used the color mixer brush tool to bring out some color where the clouds are blown out. I used Adobe Denoise in Camera RAW to reduce the noise and that was set at 50%. I cropped the image to give it a level horizon. I added three adjustment layers to the image, one to brighten the center, one was a color filter for the Maroon Bells mountains only, and one was a Vibrance layer to reduce the vibrance (I hate over saturated photos).