The 12 months that I took the featured picture we had a really chilly and early winter right here in jap Canada. Everything was frozen strong by the top of November.
It was not till I used to be able to publish the picture to my weblog that I had an opportunity to test the date of when the picture was taken. To my shock, I took the picture simply earlier than Christmas. As you may see, after nearly a month of below-freezing temperatures, we had completely no snow.
When taking the picture, I focused on the ice patterns on the river. It doesn’t occur typically when the rivers and lakes are usually not coated with snow in Montreal in winter. I solely later acknowledged the attention-grabbing distinction between the colour of the ice (gray and blue) and the colour of the grass (inexperienced and yellow). I made positive to emphasise the contrasting colours in the course of the modifying course of.
The following night time, we obtained the primary snowstorm of the season and all of the patterns and shade distinction had been gone.
Shooting
It was too chilly and I used to be too lazy to carry the tripod with me. I set the digicam to Auto ISO and shot handheld. By utilizing a wide-angle lens (10-24) with efficient picture stabilization, I safely shot at a sluggish shutter velocity of 1/25
Editing & Processing
It was a single RAW processing workflow.
Lightroom (80%)
My first precedence was to ensure the horizon was straight. I take advantage of the approach I described in-depth in this tutorial.
Next, with a view to enhance composition, I used the Crop Overlay software to alter the facet ratio from the unique 3 x 2 to 4x 3. I additionally cropped the picture to make the composition tighter.
Next, I used Point Lobos preset from my Landscape Preset Collection as the bottom for Lightroom Rapid Editing. Then I used TOOLKIT to spice up the Contrast and the Clarity.
The Lightroom Preset Editing Formula: Point Lobos (10, 17, 25, 32)
Photoshop (20%)
In Photoshop, I cleaned up the picture with the assistance of the Stamp Tool. I additionally barely boosted the distinction and vibration selectively and diminished noise.
Total time: 12min
Editing Transformation
Lightroom earlier than and after modifying transformation, from unedited RAW seize to the ultimate JPEG model.