Before I start to overwhelm you with winter, here’s another fall favorite. More boardwalk on the Wood Lake IAT segment. I am a total sucker for boardwalks in nature preserves. While bright, the light was pretty dramatic and I did my best to tame this shot into an approximation of what it was like to stand here and breathe it in.
Here is a slightly cooled off version w/green luminance value added back and yellow saturation reduced slightly. Can’t see too much of a difference, but it might look ok.
Open to ideas for processing and alternate compositions for the next time I go.
Technical Details
Is this a composite: No
Tripod and probably the CPL
Lr processed for everything - global adjustment to exposure, white and black points, highlights taken down quite a bit. Didn’t add any texture or clarity because it didn’t need it and I didn’t want it to get crispy. Soft, soft, soft was the goal here. Lots of work with local adjustments. The mask panel looks like this -
To me, the yellow tone overpowers the image. I took your shot, cooled down the shadows some, added a bit of contrast, and a stronger vignette to help draw the eyes more to the middle.
This is another wonderful autumn scene, Kris. The light is quite lovely; particularly on the left side; and the processing looks just fine to me. The boardwalk does a perfect job of taking me into the image and that brighter spot in the BG helps continue that. I have no suggestions.
Wonderful light and composition! I don’t find the yellows overpowering – the light looks like it is filtered through the autumn foliage and has a magic quality to it. There is some green in there to balance the warmth.
In the post by @Bobby_Burton feels too dark and it has lost some of the magic light, for me.
I think you may be onto something with the yellow, Bobby, but woah, that’s a strong version of the shot and not really what I had in mind, but everyone’s ideas are different and I appreciate you going to the effort.
Boardwalks are catnip for me. I’ve even chosen hikes based on whether there are boardwalks. It’s crazy.
I put a different version in the OP. Pulled the wb down a bit and increased the presence of the greens and reduced the yellows. It does look different, but I think it lacks richness now. Hm…maybe I should have saturated the colors just a bit overall after messing with yellow and green.
