Seward Highway and the Alaska Railroad along the shore of Turnagain Arm. Photo taken from the slope of Rainbow Peak. Elevation gain is about 900 feet. Olympus E-3 with 40-150mm lens.
Tundra-covered Rocks and mountain reflection. Hanging Valley Trail. Near Eagle River, Alaska. Olympus E-3 with 14-42 lens. This little alpine lake is about five miles from the Symphony/Eagle Lakes trail head.
Fire on the Mountain, Fire in the Sky. Chugach Mountains at sunset, Eagle River, Alaska. Canon 6D with OM Zuiko 35-80/2.8 zoom. Edited in Adobe Lightroom.
After days of rain, the weather is starting to clear. Eagle River Valley, Chugach Mountains. Eagle River, Alaska. Canon 6D with OM Zuiko 100/2 lens.
Alaska from above...kinda below the above, but above the below. Eagle River Valley and Chugach Mountains. Cessna 172M. Olympus E-3 with 14-42 lens. Flying over the Eagle River Nature Center.
Beaver Pond. Eagle River Nature Center, Chugach Mountains. Eagle River, Alaska. This is a six-image HDR stack processed and edited entirely in Adobe Lightroom CC (Classic). Canon 6D with OM Zuiko 21/3.5 lens.
Solid Sky. Chugach Mountains. Eagle River Nature Center. Canon 6D with OM Zuiko 300/4.5 lens. Processed in Lightroom CC.
Summer Solstice in Alaska. It was as good of an excuse as any to get the Olympus E-1 out. Eagle River and Chugach Mountains. Alaska. Olympus E-1 with 14-45 lens. Processed in Adobe Lightroom.
Through the miracle of modern Photoshop, we can take a very basic camera raw image and achieve a more pleasing look. The raw image is much like a photographic negative. There isn't anything "final" about it. It's just a array of stored numbers. Adjusting contrast, color and how the numbers are to be placed is all part of the artistic interpretation. There is no right way or wrong way to interpret the image. Only the way that the artist or photographer chooses to share the image with the viewer.
"Did it actually look that way in real life?" Yes it did. It's how "I saw it." Those who were with me when I shot the picture just happened to see something else, but that's perfectly OK.
Technical details: The photo was taken with the Canon 6D and OM Zuiko 35mm F2.0 lens. I adjusted the exposure to make sure that the highlights didn't clip or wash out. I can deal with the shadows, but the sky is a pass-fail kinda thing.
Processed in Adobe Lightroom. I used "Adobe Landscape" for the profile and pressed Auto WB and Auto Tone. That was the starting point. From there, I made minor adjustments in sharpening, clarity and lens-specific corrections. Nothing radical at all. I normally get more radical. This photo should be considered a "rough draft" edit as a final version would experience significantly more editing, but I wanted to illustrate what can be achieved with very minimal effort in Adobe Lightroom.
Volcano of Light. Turnagain Pass, Kenai Peninsula. Canon 6D with OM Zuiko 35-80/2.8 zoom.
