The good news is I spent the four weeks narrowing down to 36 from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and 59 from Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. Considering I was gone for 16 days and most of those were spent it a photography workshop, that's a really small number of photos.
I always shoot in RAW mode. Unlike when shooting in JPEG format where the camera does a lot of automatic adjustments, shooting in RAW means every photo has to be edited. I spent a lot of time on my edits trying to make them the best I can.
I didn't edit my photos in the same order I took them. I worked on the most promising ones first and made my way down to the questionable photos last. Most of the last ones I worked on got deleted. The very last photo I edited did not look promising. It was from a spot known for sunsets, but we got there too late for sunset. There were no puffy clouds in the sky to catch the remaining sunset light and it was getting pretty dark. Most of our group didn't bother to walk out to this spot. Imaging my surprise when I came out with this image from that spot.
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| Heaven's Bench, Vermont |
I took three exposures (1/5 second to 2.0 seconds) to capture the entire range of light and then blended them together using Nik HDR Efex Pro software. I used Lightroom 3 to add the finishing touches.
This spot is a wide grass covered hill with views that go on forever. The interesting thing is there is a mountain bike trail that runs through it. You can see the path on the left side. Nothing like the mountain bike trails here in Tennessee.
Take a look at all my photos from this trip by clicking these links. Once the page loads click the slideshow button, sit back and enjoy.
- Nova Scotia & New Brunswick - June and I traveling on our own.
- Maine, New Hampshire & Vermont - Photo Workshop
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