Cane Creek Gorge
by Michael Cothran
aka Milliken's Overlook at the Buzzard's Roost area in Fall Creek Falls State Park, Van Buren County, Tennessee. The high bluff area gets its name from the fact that buzzards & eagles soar at eye level up here.
It was one of those days where the rain & sun battled for supremacy. Here, the rain was dispersing again, the sky was clearing up, and the mist from the rain was rising from the ridges below.
This is a 3 image focus-stack, done manually in CS3. A small amount of soft focus was applied to the middle section, as I thought the trees had too much "bite" to them otherwise. A slight bit of sepia tone added to warm the image a little (it was more bluish than what I wanted). A manual curves adjustment was added, then finally an Auto Curves ( which I always add at the end of each image processing) to "test/compare" its opinion of the image to mine). Most times, as here, I like its opinion better, and I keep it. If not, I simply delete the layer.
Thank you for looking, and for all previous comments.
H4D50
35-90 zoom
CP
Old Gitzo tripod, Kirk ball head, and RRS custom bracket for supporting my three H series lenses, including the 35-90 zoom (it's a monster!)
Comments
7 commentsNick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI
+1 to what Peter wrote. I gotta say that you've done a wonderful job with the processing. "A small amount of soft focus was applied to the middle section," What a concept! First I've heard of doing something like this - other than intentional blurring to simulate shallow dof, but the notion that you tweaked this to take the edge off the "bite" is worth noting I think. As well as a slight sepia application; which, I wouldn't have considered if you hadn't mentioned it. In the end, you'v done very well to process this image to extract all the strong and important elements of this scene! kudos!
Did I mention this was a great landscape image? Where eagles soar sure seems appropriate.
Lon