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Okay, hopefully from here on in there won’t be anymore discontinuities in terms of what time the daily picture was taken at. This shot, for example, was taken once Grace and I got to my grandparents’ place on Vancouver Island. We wanted to get out for a bit of a walk, and my grandpa was more than happy to tour us around a small forest nearby.

I don’t know for sure when this tree fell over, but the way it landed made for an interesting shot, and it was framed nicely by greenery on all sides. This was actually quite a fun shot to edit, because of how rich the colours were, and I think the picture itself captures nicely the beauty and lushness of a typical British Columbia forest.

Edit-wise, I began by applying my usual calibration/Punch preset to this shot, although I reversed my decision with regard to the Clarity setting of said preset. Clarity was instead set to -50 (from +50) to give a slightly diffuse effect to the image. I boosted the green saturation by quite a lot, and also increased the contrast substantially. Finally, because there wasn’t much ambient light in the forest and as a result I’d found it necessary to increase the ISO to 800, I did some noise reduction on the shot. All of that, coupled with a bit of on-export sharpening by Lightroom (apparently that feature has not yet been “optimized” in any way, shape or form; hard to believe given how well it works!) and the result was the image featured above.

~ by Kenneth on May 1, 2008.