Treating Myself to Another of Nature's Amazing Outposts in New River Gorge National Park & Preserve
While looking to the southeast at a scenic overlook to the New River and namesake national park. With another image captured at this point, I used the New River flowing by as a leading line into this setting. Here I decided to look across the river valley and gorge to the more distant hillsides and ridgelines. I took advantage of the high ground I was on and also angled my Nikon SLR camera slightly downward to create a more sweeping view across this river valley. That would also allow me to minimize the overcast skies present that morning that I felt were more of a negative space. 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 PhotoLab 4. I then exported a TIFF image to Nik Color Efex Pro 4 where I added some filters for that last effect on the image captured.
Treating Myself to Another of Nature's Amazing Outposts in New River Gorge National Park & Preserve
While looking to the southeast at a scenic overlook to the New River and namesake national park. With another image captured at this point, I used the New River flowing by as a leading line into this setting. Here I decided to look across the river valley and gorge to the more distant hillsides and ridgelines. I took advantage of the high ground I was on and also angled my Nikon SLR camera slightly downward to create a more sweeping view across this river valley. That would also allow me to minimize the overcast skies present that morning that I felt were more of a negative space. 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 PhotoLab 4. I then exported a TIFF image to Nik Color Efex Pro 4 where I added some filters for that last effect on the image captured.