New River Gorge National Park & Preserve Has a Beauty to Stir a Thirst for Adventure
A longer exposed image captured of the New River and Sandstone Falls while walking the boarded walkway and bridge in that portion of the national park. The view is looking upstream and to the west-northwest. My thinking in composing this image was to center the river and waterfalls. I would use the nearby trees and more distant ridgeline and mountainside as a frame to draw the viewer into the image with the centered waterfall. Angling my Nikon SLR camera slightly downward would allow me to minimize the overcast skies above and create a more sweeping view looking to the waterfalls. 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 a Foliage and Pro Contrast filter for that last effect on the image captured.
New River Gorge National Park & Preserve Has a Beauty to Stir a Thirst for Adventure
A longer exposed image captured of the New River and Sandstone Falls while walking the boarded walkway and bridge in that portion of the national park. The view is looking upstream and to the west-northwest. My thinking in composing this image was to center the river and waterfalls. I would use the nearby trees and more distant ridgeline and mountainside as a frame to draw the viewer into the image with the centered waterfall. Angling my Nikon SLR camera slightly downward would allow me to minimize the overcast skies above and create a more sweeping view looking to the waterfalls. 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 a Foliage and Pro Contrast filter for that last effect on the image captured.