I Came to Live Life in Abundance (Denali National Park & Preserve)
A view looking to the south while crossing a the bridge over the Teklanika River in Denali National Park & Preserve. The views that morning and afternoon were very hazy from the recent wildfires in the area along with the overhead sunlight. What I wanted to capture with this image was the look across the glacial valley with the river flowing by and mountain peaks off in the distance. I did some initial post-processing work making adjustments to contrast, brightness and saturation while playing around as I learned how to work with DxO PhotoLabs 3 and then used the ClearView tool to reduce some of the haze present. As I felt the hazy skies above were kind of a negative space for this image, I decided to crop a portion of that and let that add to a more wide-angle, panoramic feel to the image.
I Came to Live Life in Abundance (Denali National Park & Preserve)
A view looking to the south while crossing a the bridge over the Teklanika River in Denali National Park & Preserve. The views that morning and afternoon were very hazy from the recent wildfires in the area along with the overhead sunlight. What I wanted to capture with this image was the look across the glacial valley with the river flowing by and mountain peaks off in the distance. I did some initial post-processing work making adjustments to contrast, brightness and saturation while playing around as I learned how to work with DxO PhotoLabs 3 and then used the ClearView tool to reduce some of the haze present. As I felt the hazy skies above were kind of a negative space for this image, I decided to crop a portion of that and let that add to a more wide-angle, panoramic feel to the image.