My Image Your View: Avalanche Creek in Glacier NP
Apr 1, 2019 04:17:19 #
When visiting well know places, its always nice to get those iconic shots that we’re all familiar with. The fun is to find all those hidden locations off the beaten path where interesting things happen that you usually wouldn’t see unless you were there.
Welcome to Glacier National Park. This is an image of a small gorge somewhere along the Avalanche Creek. It was an easy early morning hike with the sun still quite low on the horizon. What attracted me to this shot was everything was in deep shadow with the sunlight trying to break thru the trees further up the creek, the yellow green moss growing on the rocks and water’s turquoise blue water color. Once your eyes acclimated to the low light, the moss seemed to glow as the light reflected off it and you could watch the beautiful turquoise blue water dance it way downstream.
The creeks and lakes in this area are known for their blue-green colors. The colors ultimately result from the movement of glaciers. As the glaciers move they grind the rock into a very fine powder known as ‘glacier or rock flour’. It’s the powdered quarts and feldspar in suspension that gives the water in the lakes and streams that iridescent blue-green color.
This is a jpg converted directly from the raw file. Only processing done was to correct WB to shade and increased exposure by 1/2 stop to add a little shadow detail for the raw-to-jpg export. Hope you have fun with this image.
Feel free to download this photo to your computer and edit it any way that you wish. Black and white conversions, composites, color shifts, infrared, inverted, whatever you think looks good. Then, when you are finished with the edit, post it in this thread. We will accept edits until Thursday at 9 pm. At that time we will not accept any more edits and the voting will begin.
Welcome to Glacier National Park. This is an image of a small gorge somewhere along the Avalanche Creek. It was an easy early morning hike with the sun still quite low on the horizon. What attracted me to this shot was everything was in deep shadow with the sunlight trying to break thru the trees further up the creek, the yellow green moss growing on the rocks and water’s turquoise blue water color. Once your eyes acclimated to the low light, the moss seemed to glow as the light reflected off it and you could watch the beautiful turquoise blue water dance it way downstream.
The creeks and lakes in this area are known for their blue-green colors. The colors ultimately result from the movement of glaciers. As the glaciers move they grind the rock into a very fine powder known as ‘glacier or rock flour’. It’s the powdered quarts and feldspar in suspension that gives the water in the lakes and streams that iridescent blue-green color.
This is a jpg converted directly from the raw file. Only processing done was to correct WB to shade and increased exposure by 1/2 stop to add a little shadow detail for the raw-to-jpg export. Hope you have fun with this image.
Feel free to download this photo to your computer and edit it any way that you wish. Black and white conversions, composites, color shifts, infrared, inverted, whatever you think looks good. Then, when you are finished with the edit, post it in this thread. We will accept edits until Thursday at 9 pm. At that time we will not accept any more edits and the voting will begin.
Apr 1, 2019 10:02:51 #
Apr 1, 2019 10:04:20 #
Apr 1, 2019 15:55:18 #
Apr 2, 2019 08:37:10 #
This was interesting. I first made your picture brighter and more vivid. I then got my iPad and went to the internet and opened your post. Went to your post's download page and filled the screen with your picture. As it was open I grabbed my iPhone, held out the iPad and took a picture with the iPhone. Sent the picture via email to my computer. Opened in photoshop masked then imported to your picture in a new layer made a few other adjustments and made this final picture.
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Apr 2, 2019 10:35:43 #
Apr 2, 2019 10:59:45 #
This is so beautiful, I really didn't want to even touch it! I love this image. Anyway, in an old LR program I increased the clarity, took the shadows up 2 points and did some sharpening. Oh, and I took the highlights down about 5 points to lessen the glare just a bit off the white water. I don't think I made it better than the original, which should be the point of post-processing.
Apr 2, 2019 16:55:37 #
SalvageDiver wrote:
When visiting well know places, its always nice to... (show quote)
I thought I'd see what some basic adjustments could do with this. Selective hi-lights and shadows using layer masks with a bit of leveling.
Please view in "download"
Apr 2, 2019 18:00:23 #
Apr 2, 2019 19:50:24 #
Apr 2, 2019 21:08:20 #
SalvageDiver wrote:
When visiting well know places, its always nice to... (show quote)
I really like the original photo; but, to me, this is all about the rocks and the water. So I cropped close to eliminate the trees. I know you thought the sun coming through those very trees made this shot interesting to you. I agree, but since we are trying to edit the originals and come up with something different, I thought I would concentrate on the rocks and the water. The challenge was to tone down the highlights and bring out the detail in the white water. I also think that, with just the water and the rocks, it works in black and white.
Apr 2, 2019 21:13:23 #
Apr 2, 2019 21:54:58 #
artBob wrote:
Whew! Made it!
LOL Lucky you made it, but your not out of the woods yet. A little slip and over the falls (lower left) you go.
Mike
Apr 2, 2019 21:57:29 #
MattPhox wrote:
Avalanche Creek: My view
Nice view, you brought out all the details in the gorge.
Apr 2, 2019 22:00:37 #
IreneAC wrote:
My view:
Nice view Irene, you brought out the colors and did a nice job with the trees
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