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Those of you who are following me on Twitter, will already have noticed my continious weather rants (I'm considering a separate account only for my weather rants). It's has been not very photographic recently, or when it is, I'm at work. But no can do, unless someone comes up with a law which enables people to take off work once the conditions are right. But I really don't see that happening.

So here's one from the archives. I took this in Koitelinkoski in July this year. This is really a great place to shoot. I've been there twice this year, and look forward to return there once we have some more snow and before it's totally frozen. Let's hope for the best.

As the the filters were not strong enough to compensate entirely for the dynamic difference between sky and foreground, the original shot is a little underexposed. I did almost all adjustments in Lightroom and some final adjustments in Photoshop using my favorite LAB color adjustments and a minor Level adjustment.

There were some requests to publish a little tutorial on how I processed the last image, which I hopefully have up in the near future.

On a side note I got me a bright new shiny Mac and did the processing on that one, meaning I hope the colors come out right.

I hope you like it and thanks for visiting my blog.

UPDATE: I know have finally set a new monitor, and while I'm still not 100% sure about the calibration, I noticed the first post to be way too much saturated. I know have uploaded a new version and continue now, to figure out, how to calibrate my second monitor.

UPDATE 2: It's unbelievable. I again uploaded the wrong version of the file. I did manage now to calibrate my monitor and edited this version.

View the original, unprocessed version of this image

Camera Make: Canon
Camera Model: Canon EOS 5D
Aperture: F11
Exposure Time: 2.5 sec
Focal Length: 25.0 mm
ISO: 50
Exposure Bias: -1
Shooting Mode: Aperture priority
Flash: Flash did not fire, auto
Metering Mode: Multi-segment

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Comments:

Oh yes, I could look at this photo for a very long time... well, in fact, I just did! And you will love your shiny new Mac!

Posted by Debbie Hartmann on November 22, 2008 at 05:58 PM EET #

Hello! I like this photo very much, that prisoners me is light, purity in the photo is wonderful. many ++++++

Posted by micke on November 22, 2008 at 06:46 PM EET #

Absolutely right: if the weather is good, you have to work, and usually the weather is good only from monday to friday :-(
The image is very good and very well worked. A great image (as ausually are yours). Continue in this way!

Posted by Massimo Belloni on November 22, 2008 at 07:15 PM EET #

Another excellent photo from you full of detail and colour well done !very interesting

Posted by Philip on November 22, 2008 at 07:32 PM EET #

Beautiful landscape shot. I like the details and colours.

Posted by yz on November 22, 2008 at 09:30 PM EET #

Great moment captured. Beautiful perspective and landscape.

Posted by Arnd on November 23, 2008 at 01:17 AM EET #

Would you share how Twitter is being used - I looked at it and it looked like just another IM technique. I could not figure out the benefit...............

Posted by sf on November 23, 2008 at 04:13 AM EET #

beautiful place there... beautiful pix inpired by beautiful scenery....

Posted by shahmin on November 23, 2008 at 06:26 AM EET #

Ah, the weather. Its directly proportional to your work schedule. The more you work the better the skies. The more your off, the crappier the photographic conditions. Nice greens here, Note to self-must try LAB more.

Posted by Richard on November 23, 2008 at 06:34 AM EET #

This post has been selected as PixyBlog's Daily Shot for Sat, 22 Nov 2008

Posted by Pixy on November 23, 2008 at 10:00 AM EET #

This is really pretty. It reminds me of this place in Nangal, Punjab, India. In the middle of the river Satluj, there is a patch of land. When the level of water rises, you can see only the trees and not the land. It is so pretty

Posted by navin harish on November 24, 2008 at 02:47 PM EET #

What a beautiful place... the colour contrast is awesome.

Posted by Jay on November 24, 2008 at 04:10 PM EET #

Stunning work, as usual. I love this.

Posted by Daniel James on November 24, 2008 at 11:54 PM EET #

Stunning composition with amazing details, perfect focus and incredible post processing

Posted by Thomas on November 25, 2008 at 04:23 AM EET #

Wonderful work, again! Always interesting to see the original photo :)

Posted by Andreas on November 26, 2008 at 01:38 PM EET #

Bonsoir,
A great shot..wonderful composition and sharpness..Bravo!

Posted by jelb on November 26, 2008 at 11:59 PM EET #

Please post the PP tutorial when you can. I can't believe the pre- versus the post-processed pictures! Incredible detail and dynamic range! I would have sworn this was HDR!

Posted by Steve on November 27, 2008 at 04:26 AM EET #

I didn't realize that you had posted the RAW version. Great exposure, I would have guessed at 2 exposures, 1 for sky and 1 for foreground. Also noticed the house disappeared, great clone!

Posted by Richard on November 27, 2008 at 02:12 PM EET #

Wow, that's all i can say now. Great reflections, wonderful colors.

Posted by alex on November 28, 2008 at 03:51 PM EET #

I like the symmetry between the rooks in the river and the clouds in the sky, the similarity of texture and colour give image a wonderful harmony.

Posted by Eric on December 07, 2008 at 07:02 PM EET #

Nice view with strong, eyecathing foreground. The rocks shine almost like there where on ice or wet. Excellent post processing.

Posted by Tero on December 14, 2008 at 09:22 PM EET #

Absolutely wonderful picture

Posted by Musharosky on January 16, 2009 at 05:21 AM EET #