The clouds came in and the wind picked up over the countryside outside of Bismarck, North Dakota. Only people from Wisconsin would go to North Dakota for a weekend in January! It was only one afternoon with VERY changeable weather, but I loved it and want to go back for an extended road trip. This gate in a barbed wire fence is right on the road so there were limitations to what I could do with composition, but I liked the tracks that lead away directly behind it.
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Is it too static? There wasn’t much in back of the gate or in front except the road, but the gate had so much character I literally drove past and then backed up. But that doesn’t mean it makes for a good photograph.
Technical Details
Is this a composite: No
Lumix DC-G9
Lumix G Vario 35-100 f/2.8 @ 35mm (70mm equiv)
f/8 | 1/160 sec | ISO 200
Handheld in heavy wind
Lr processed w/Modern preset #6 and adjusted for clarity, texture and dehaze. Cropped a lot of blank sky, hit the far hills with a brush to bring them out of the snow that was falling back there. Another brush to bring up the exposure in the posts a bit. Used a bit of transform to get the gate to line up better. Overall highlight control and sharpening.