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Foggy Autumn
It can be difficult for me to cope with fall after the annual trip to the NC Highlands. The color is vastly more dramatic down there and occurs much earlier than my area of VA. The widespread color down south is where I seek my grand landscape scenery, and after returning home it seems a little pointless to further pursue similar shots. My solution has always been to seek out the smaller scenes under the canopy, and nothing brings that to life as well as some nice fog. I rode the parkway this morning from Roanoke to Apple Orchard Mountain. The best color to be seen is right now, sporadic, and rapidly leaving. The high ridges south of the Peaks of Otter have been mostly stripped of leaves and sporting a mostly winter look. This shot was 3 RAW images blended using luminosity masking. I corrected the white balance, de-noise, darkened the background trees -.7 EV for contrast while leaving the fog alone, and brightened the colorful foreground foliage +.7 EV while leaving everything else alone. The contrast built solely using exposure blending. After that levels, some vibrance, sharpen. Looks a little too sharp for me on Flickr. This type of scene isn't super easy to find, a red tree is hard up my way, and best shot up a steep hollow with no sky for the infinity look of the fog.
Foggy Autumn
It can be difficult for me to cope with fall after the annual trip to the NC Highlands. The color is vastly more dramatic down there and occurs much earlier than my area of VA. The widespread color down south is where I seek my grand landscape scenery, and after returning home it seems a little pointless to further pursue similar shots. My solution has always been to seek out the smaller scenes under the canopy, and nothing brings that to life as well as some nice fog. I rode the parkway this morning from Roanoke to Apple Orchard Mountain. The best color to be seen is right now, sporadic, and rapidly leaving. The high ridges south of the Peaks of Otter have been mostly stripped of leaves and sporting a mostly winter look. This shot was 3 RAW images blended using luminosity masking. I corrected the white balance, de-noise, darkened the background trees -.7 EV for contrast while leaving the fog alone, and brightened the colorful foreground foliage +.7 EV while leaving everything else alone. The contrast built solely using exposure blending. After that levels, some vibrance, sharpen. Looks a little too sharp for me on Flickr. This type of scene isn't super easy to find, a red tree is hard up my way, and best shot up a steep hollow with no sky for the infinity look of the fog.