Equipment Used: Nikon D750, Tamron 24-70mm f2.8 G2 lense, Vanguard
Abeo Plus 363CT tripod, Lightroom & Photoshop CC
With a blanket of snow back in February covering the ground, I ventured
out to a few of my favorite scenes to photograph while the sun was setting.
The D750 and the Tamron 24-70mm was used to capture the scene that was
shot in RAW. ISO was 100 and I had the aperture set at f7.1 and f16. I used f16
to get the sun rays on the last two images while shooting from the VanGuard
tripod because the shutter speed was slow at that aperture.
Using Lightroom Classic, I first changed the white balance to shade and
then started making adjustments to the basic sliders to boost the colors of the
sky. I then used the graduated filter tool to improve the color of the snow has
I wanted to keep it a bright white. Clarity, sharpness, saturation, and lens
correction tools were also used in LR.
In Photoshop CC, unwanted objects were first cloned out using the clone
tool or content aware fill tool. These objects included dust spots in the sky
from my dirty sensor along with power lines between the barn and corn crib. I
straightened the image and cropped if needed in PS.
The snow didn’t last long once the warm up occurred but I was pleased
with what I was able to capture on my two trips out into the cold and snow.
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