Autumn at Lake Panorama National GC

With chilly north winds blowing over Lake Panorama National Golf Course, fall approached this golfing season changing the golf course from green hues to rich autumn hues. These images were taken at two different shoots and unfortunately, with the strong winds this fall, the leaves did not stick around like I had hoped.

I drove around the course with the D90 in hand equipped with the 18-105mm or 12-24mm lense. Surprisingly, this was the first time I had the 12-24mm on the golf course and it offered a new wide angle perspective on some of the beautiful holes. The camera was set to RAW to capture the golf holes in full color. The aperture of f9 to f14 was used along with the auto bracketing feature on the D90. This allowed me to get different exposed images at rapid pace. With plenty of light, the ISO was kept at 200.

Once on the computer, ViewNX was used to change the RAW files by adjusting the white balance to direct sunlight and the picture control to landscape-nature. The highlight and shadow protection sliders were used at a minimum on these images. The final step was changing the RAW files to Tiff’s to export into PSE8.

In PSE8, I used the cloning tool to clone out hazard stakes and other items that I didn’t want in the images. Adjustment layers and masks were used in combination with hue/saturation, brightness/contrast and smart paint brush to further enhance the images. The ability to stack layers and masks on top of each other is one of the biggest processing powers of Photoshop.

The golf course will soon be covered in snow but the beauty of Lake Panorama National GC will be back in the spring to greet golfers once again.

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