I took the featured photograph within the Capitol Reef National Park in Utah.
The Capitol Reef is the least visited nationwide park in Utah. It is positioned fairly far-off from main southwest cities and, consequently, attracts fewer vacationers.
The distance to Capitol Reef from Las Vegas is 550km, 800km from Phoenix, and 700km from Denver.
Nevertheless, the park is full of vacationers in the course of the excessive season, from May to October.
But for individuals, preferring secluded places, like me, there may be all the time Cathedral Valley.
The valley is positioned additional away from the most important park’s points of interest, and the one strategy to get there may be by driving 50km of ruff and twisted dust highway. Plus, to get there, that you must ford the Fermont river. It will not be an enormous deal within the dry season, however after heavy rain or flash flood, it may be a problem.
The Cathedral Vally highway loop is 92km lengthy, and more often than not, you don’t want a 4×4 automotive, however you completely want a high-clearance one. Also, you want Capitol Reef Map.
In the center of the Cathedral Vally loop, there’s a primitive (free) campground positioned at 2200m above sea degree, and it affords incredible views on Cathedral Valley.
I took the featured photograph 50m from our tenting spot.
Shooting
Today, I wish to share my new method to getting the optimum publicity for my pictures. I’ve been testing the brand new method since switching to Fujifilm cameras and lenses.
The new methodology is predicated on the premise that to get most high quality from the digicam sensor (any model, any mannequin), that you must maximize sensor saturation with mild. The thought is to not get proper publicity in-camera however somewhat to seize as a lot mild as potential with out clipping the highlights. And you deal with the ultimate publicity changes in Lightroom or another RAW editor.
I first got here throughout this method whereas watching YouTube channel Theoria Apophasis by Ken Wheeler, aka Angry Photographer. After studying some extra technical information, I used to be satisfied that it was the precise method for my images. Over a 12 months, I carried out the brand new approach into my workflow. As a end result, most of my newest pictures are overexposed by 1/3 or 1/2 stops.
Below is the histogram of the featured photograph. It is overexposed by 1/2 stops.
In the case of the featured photograph, the capturing was straight ahead. I had my digicam on the tripod, and the setting solar was behind me, illuminating the valley with the mushy mild. I had no drawback capturing the dynamic vary of the scene with one shot. Bracketing was not needed.
Editing & Processing
It was a single RAW processing workflow.
Lightroom (70%)
I stored the unique side ratio (3 x 2) however I needed to crop the picture barely to make composition tighter and to align the main line of the highway with the underside left nook.
Next, I
The Lightroom Preset Editing Formula: Napa (5, 10, 13, 16, 20, 32)
Photoshop (30%)
In Photoshop, all I needed to do was to spice up particulars and cut back digital noise. Plus, I needed to do some cleansing by utilizing the Spot Removal device.
Plugins: DeNoise AI (noise discount).
Total Time: 15min
Before & After Transformation
