I got up very early on Christmas Eve to shoot at my favorite spot. It was so cold that I couldn’t find many animals to photograph, but the sun playing through the mist from Clear Creek more than made up for the lack of animate subjects. The first image is a straight-from-the camera image. The second is a monochrome image that I toned using a custom tone curve.
I tent to prefer the first image, mostly because I think the composition is stronger, though (obviously) I liked the second enough to post it. Please post a comment and let me know which you prefer.
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Both awesome. Inclined to the second myself. Like more fog coming off the creek.
Thanks, Russ. There is definitely more of a foggy feel to the second image. What’s interesting to me is how differently the camera and eye perceive the fog. The fog from the river was about as thick as I have ever seen, but the camera doesn’t quite capture the pea soup quality.