MAKE : TIME for things outside
While taking in view to the northwest and across a mountain desert landscape at a roadside pullout in Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area. What I wanted to capture with this image was look across the landscape to my front, filled with a variety of different plant-life, and have that lead up to the sandstone peaks and rock formations off in the distance. I wanted to have a more or less leveled-on view with the horizon. The blue skies and clouds would be that color contrast to complement the earth-tones in the lower portion of the image.
I chose to work with HDR Efex Pro 2 (which I’d recently purchased with a DxO upgrade) to better bring that complete setting in the image. I then exported a TIFF image to DxO PhotoLab 5 where I did some final adjustments with contrast, saturation and brightness for the final image.
MAKE : TIME for things outside
While taking in view to the northwest and across a mountain desert landscape at a roadside pullout in Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area. What I wanted to capture with this image was look across the landscape to my front, filled with a variety of different plant-life, and have that lead up to the sandstone peaks and rock formations off in the distance. I wanted to have a more or less leveled-on view with the horizon. The blue skies and clouds would be that color contrast to complement the earth-tones in the lower portion of the image.
I chose to work with HDR Efex Pro 2 (which I’d recently purchased with a DxO upgrade) to better bring that complete setting in the image. I then exported a TIFF image to DxO PhotoLab 5 where I did some final adjustments with contrast, saturation and brightness for the final image.