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River Kayak team

The shot:
I photographed this image in the Guilford Bassendeen area along the Swan river. I was out for a BBQ breakfast early one autumn morning and the fog had been quite strong rising off the swan river. Many people were out in canoes and Kayaks practicing for the upcoming Avon descent. I has been out near the water in the freezing temperatures for around an hour taking mainly landscape images and was pretty much done shooting as the sun was getting higher in the sky and making a lot of glare. Then i noticed several of these kayakers paddling past and instantly pictured a nice silhouette style of image with the main light source behind the subject. I photographed a couple of silhouettes and the shadows were very harsh and glare quite strong. As the kayakers paddled around the bend I followed them so now the sun was giving me directional light from a slighter different and less harsh direction. There was still a little bit of fog which made interesting textures to the image. This image was shot with a Canon 1DS and a 24-70 mm 2.8 lens. The focal length was at 70 mm. To allow for a sharp frozen image I used a shutter speed of 1/200 at f13 and the ISO was at 400. On this camera at 400 there is a little bit of noise but I didn’t mind it so much.

Raw processing

This is how the raw exposure turned and while in camera raw I tried out one of the presets that i have saved to see if it would add an aged toned look that would take out the bland colours. The raw preset adds +43 in exposure, recovery to 100, fill light +1, black +5, brightness + 44, Contrast +77, Clarity +19, Vibrance -6, Saturation -42. The spilt toning feature is also used with the highlight hue +51 and the saturation 39. The shadows hue +33 and the saturation 15.

Editing

The image is then opened in photoshop for some isolated tweaks. I’ve decided I want to age the photo a bit more and so in Photoshop an hue/saturation adjustment layer is added. The colorize button is checked the hue change to 43 and the saturation to 15. Once this layer is added I realize i want just a touch more colour to seep through, and because I have used an adjustment layer this is a very simple process. I simply lower the opacity to 88%.

Now the image looked aged but its missing a little bit of punch that I would like in it. In this case I really want the fog to be prominent, so I create a duplicate layer and add the diffuse glow filter to this layer. Then to fad it in adequately i change the blending mode of that layer to soft light. The glow of the fog stands out nicely, and the contrast is punchy the way I would like it.

Just a last tip when working in photoshop you can always use the history palette to go back a few steps if you are not happy with any changes you make. But this is usually limited to 20 steps backwards so what I also like to do is take snapshots of each completed step by clicking the camera looking icon at the bottom of the history palette. That way I can with one click go back over each completed step I have used in the process.

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