Winter Frost

In the month of December with snow already on the ground, one morning I woke up to trees covered in frost, the perfect time to take photographs of the winter landscape. Luckily the goose hunt I was on got done early and the wind was still calm which kept the frost on the trees so out came the camera.

I ended up taking photographs of Lake Panorama, the Brethren Church cemetery and the old barn farm yard that I had photographed before. Using the trusty D90, I used the 18-105mm or 70-300mm lense on the images of the lighthouse and then switched over to just the 18-105mm for the other images. As I find myself using more more, I had the camera set to RAW and used AV mode to control the depth of field.

I processed the RAW files in ViewNX adjusting the white balance, sharpness, contrast and some exposure compensation if needed. With the contrast between the snow and the objects I was getting in the image, I choice to use a custom picture control called Top Gear. This is a “crazy” curve that I downloaded off the web that in the right situations, can product outstanding images.

I then cropped the images in PSE8 along with alittle cloning out of objects that I did not want in the final image. Hopefully there will be many more mornings like this during the winter to get more beautiful images like these.

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After getting some advice from the refuge forum photography members on how to post process snow by adjusting saturation and other items, I've came up with this image below.