This comes from the first night of the trip. I landed at Sea/Tac airport, got my rental vehicle and headed straight for this spot. Here is the way the story goes:
About a 1 1/2 years ago I was in the Portland, Or. area. It wasn't that great of day with rain and clouds but I was determined to head up to Trillium Lake and catch the shot I have seen so many photo's of.
So away I went and after fighting traffic and driving that 60 miles and 1-1/2 hours I got to the turn off for Trillium Lake. The GPS said 2 miles. The road closure sigh said "sorry about your luck". You see I didn't check road closures and the main hwy was open right up until the time you enter the park. The gate closure and 4ft of snow said I wasn't going to make it. The date was April 28th and they don't plow the roads and open the park until May 1st. So all that driving for nothing, I was rather disappointed.
Zoom forward to this day. I knew that the next few days it was going to rain and the weather report for this day said "Sun and great weather" so this shot was going to be my one and only attempt for this area for this trip.
So 220 miles and 4 hours later here I was ready to shoot. So worth the drive, so worth the view!! I would do it all over again tomorrow for the same shot and same experience of beauty!!
The Shot:
>Standard 3 Shot HDR +2, 0, -2, ISO 320, F/9, 24-105L @32mm, Tripod and cable shutter release.
Post Processing:
>ACR
>Removed All Sharpening, Removed Black, Added Noise Reduction, Removed Chromatic Abberration
>Saved as Tiffs
Photomatix:
>Detail Enhancer
>Strength 90%
>Color Saturation 80%
>Smoothing (Slider @7.9)
>Luminosity 0.00
>White Point 1.055
>Black Point 0.515
>Microsmoothing 17.2
>Microcontrast 4.0
>Saved as 16 Bit Tiff
Post Processing CS-5
>Mountain came out very Orange in HDR Processing
>Masked in -2 EV for Mountain and Reflection
>Topaz InFocus-Global Sharpening
>Color efex Pro 3.0
>Pro Contrast-Lower Opacity to Taste
>Tonal Contrast-Masked for Water only-Lowered opacity to taste
>Adjustment Layer-Levels-Lowered Blue saturation in Sky>Cloning to remove dust and spots
>Adjustment Layer-Curves-Slight global contrast
>Cropped, Framed and Sized for posting
Lovely reflection. Could totally relate to ur anecdote, as I had gone thru the same. The first time I visited this place, it was closed for winter :)
ReplyDeleteIt is such a awesome place that I can't wait to keep getting back here !