Sometimes I like to dive back a few years into the archives and see what I saw through my camera on a particular adventure. This shot comes from a trip in 2011 to New York’s highest point, Mount Marcy in the High Peaks region of Adirondack Preserve. The weather was absolutely perfect for this hike, and a recent storm provided a lot of fresh snow. So recently in fact that we made of the first tracks on the mountain that day. Due to sharing some of the trail with skiers, you are required to have snowshoes on for the fifteen-or-so mile round trip. After a peaceful morning of hiking through the dense northeastern forest, we popped into a clearing just below the treeline and got our first view of Marcy’s bald, but snowy summit.
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Behind The Scenes
Camera: Canon SD1400 IS
Lens: Built-in
Focal Length: 5mm
ISO: 80
Aperture: f/8
Shutter Speed: 1/200th
The Tools: 15 Inch Macbook Pro
Location: Mount Marcy – Adirondack Park, Lake Placid, New York.
Other Good Stuff: Lightroom 5, Nik Color Efex Pro 4,
Workflow: I pulled this Jpeg out of an archive of photos from early 2011. Since this was taken with a point and shoot, and there is no raw file to work with, I was limited to what I can do with the image without damaging it. I did a little color temp correction in Lightroom and cropped it slightly to recompose the shot. Finally, I took the shot into Color Efex Pro 4 to bring out a little more detail in the trees.
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