When helping folks at the camera, I often talk about what needs to be done in post to finish the image. Landscapes are something we need to romance and many times in order for that passion to come out, we have to do some finishing in post. The problem is, which comes first, camera knowledge or post knowledge? I often get these funny looks when I say I mention this post technique or that. Inevitably the question comes out, “How am I supposed to know all of that?” An here lies one of the many challenges of landscape photography, seeing the finished photo in the viewfinder.
You gotta start somewhere and that’s what we have here, the click out of the camera. The finishing you see here is straight out of ACR where just the colors are helped with Vibrance and while it looks nice, it’s not what I say when I took the photo. So let’s take it to the next step.
Photo captured by D3x, 24f1.4AFS on Lexar UDMA digital film