Now that I’ve begun my photography project for 2012, the temperatures suddenly drop to around 10 degrees F… Sigh!
Tag Archives: Winter
A tiny stream that feeds the Assabet River in Stow — probably 100 yards from busy Route 62. Sometimes color adds to a scene and some call out for no color — and as I was working through this image the color just kept getting in the way.
Technical: Canon 1D Mark II, 24-70mm f/2.8L at 70mm, 5 seconds, f/16, ISO 100. (Probably a polarizer.)
Lightroom 3: lens profile correction, WB to 9960, Exposure +1/2 stop, fill 60, blacks 19, brightness +65, clarity +25, highlights -45, sharpening 40/0.8/39/14; burned the snow in the lower-right 1/3 stop.
A couple of years ago we took a trip down a part of the Kangamangus Highway in New Hampshire looking for interesting winter scenes. While we don’t have the terrain of that countryside here in Massachusetts we pretty much have the same snowfall this year — and we’re about to get hammered again. We have icicles though, but they tend to be hanging off of houses rather than gorges. I recalled this scene while driving by those houses.
These are fairly impressionistic images, more heavily processed in Lightroom than I normally do – but I wanted to bring out the cold feeling of the blue in the ice and waterfall pool.
Technical: Canon 1D Mark 2, 24-70mm f/2.8L at 32mm, 1/50 at f/8, ISO 200.
Lightroom 3: Lens profile correction (flattens it out nicely), fill 40, blacks 19, clarity +100 (yes, over the top), vibrance +20, aqua and blue saturation +100. (Reference the “before” image below.)
