Taken during a photo tour in the Dolomites last weekend. The weather wasn't the best but we had some brief moments of good light as here on the Seceda outlook. What a great view!

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Yesterday I was on a little waterfall tour through the north Schwarzwald. I went to the Burgbach cascade for a second time to explore it a little more thoroughly. The last time I was there last year I somehow was to rushed. This time I brought enough time and took some closer looks on the possibilities for composition.

This shows the middle part of the 30 meter cascade which has some nice little steps. I used a contrasty BW here to focus on the structures in the cascade. The technique I used is inspired by Vincent Versace and strongly aims at leading the viewer to distinct parts of the image. The procssing is quite dark in some parts but intended so.. BTW the sun was shining yesterday ;-)

Think this really just looks good on black ;-)

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This is a fantastic place. It felt so unreal driving along that lane with those huge trees lining the street on both sides. It also wasn't easy to get a photo without cars in it. Not that there are many cars on that road. But the few who drive along, usually park on the lane for a couple of minutes to enjoy the scenery. So it wasn't often we had the dark hedges for ourselfes.

Some focus stacking was needed to get a god dof. I left the nearest part out of focus though to get some framing. In postprocessing I first focused on bw conversion, then on contrast and in the end I took out some details by controlled blurring of highlights and some orton effect.

hope you like it!

cheers

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my start2finish postprocessing tutorial can be found here: mibreit-photo.com/blog/?p=963

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There are scenes which just scream black and white. Already while shooting you know this should be converted to black and white. The sky in reality really wasn't that dramatic, just white and grey clouds, with a bit of blue in between. But given some contrast and converted to bw this looks completely different.. I also liked that the highlights from the flowing water in the river somehow balanced the highlights in the sky.

Post was some exposure blending and then bw conversion using multiple channel-mixers. then my usual contrast work using luminance masks as I show in my Start2Finish Post Processing Tutorial.

cheers

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the remains of a ship wreck at rossbeigh beach in ireland. Used my nd400 to blur out the water!

best View On White

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