Photo taken on a fly fishing drift boat trip, fishing for steelhead, on the Chetco River in south western Oregon.

Camera is a point and shoot Canon PowerShot SD900 in auto mode.

Top image is a JPEG just as the camera processed it with no post processing applied except cropping for a better composition.

Bottom image was processed through Lightroom:

This would have been an ideal situation for HDR without all the bells and whistles It wold have given a lot of detail in the dark underexposed right hand side.

I would not know how to start to do it so, tell me to shut up!

Ian


white balance corrected

white point and black point set

vibrance set to +30

tone curve set to Medium Contrast

sharpening set to amount of 52, radius 0.5, detail to 60, and masking set to 62

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