The Miles We Covered
I've had this latent theme for many years now - something about putting my boots in an otherwise ostensibly "landscape" scene. This one occurred to me right on the first visit, although I had to come back a second time when it was darker to get the effect I wanted.
Taken at the Burn o'Vat in the Muir of Dinnet nature reserve as dusk had long fallen, using LED lights to illuminate the waterfall warm/orange colour and spot-light both the boots and another boulder.
The scene was built-up piece by piece, with separate frames for each element (each of them a focus-stack of 10 or 11 frames front to back) and another for the overall ambient light.
All the RAW files were converted in DxO then focus-stacked and artistically blended in Affinity before final toning in LuminarAI.
Taken at the Burn o'Vat in the Muir of Dinnet nature reserve as dusk had long fallen, using LED lights to illuminate the waterfall warm/orange colour and spot-light both the boots and another boulder.
The scene was built-up piece by piece, with separate frames for each element (each of them a focus-stack of 10 or 11 frames front to back) and another for the overall ambient light.
All the RAW files were converted in DxO then focus-stacked and artistically blended in Affinity before final toning in LuminarAI.
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| Camera: | FUJIFILM X-H2 | ISO: | 125 |
| Focal Length: | 16mm (24mm-e) | Aperture: | f/4.5 |
| Shutter Speed: | 2.5s |
Location
GPS location: 57.083971, -2.950581