Hi
"This photograph was taken at the Perito Moreno Glacier, located in Los Glaciares National Park, on December 24, 2015, near the town of El Calafate, in Patagonia, Argentina. The walkway in the foreground is the one that lets you get up close to the glacier. A wall of ice about 70 meters high!
It was a cloudy day (don’t forget your sunscreen, even when it’s cloudy. In my case, I forgot…). I plan to go back to Patagonia by car, take my wife, and eventually take some photographs. The place is fantastic. It’s the kind of place where you don’t need to be a photographer to be amazed!
As for the editing software, I used Darktable. Still confusing to me! As for AgX, I just pressed the button — I still haven’t figured out what it’s for… blessed ignorance!
Rotate bringing the horizon horizontal, crop for the Ultra-Classic rule of thirds, reveal a bit the shadows, white balance targeting the white ice, just a bit a contrast, and then a good serving of sharpen to make the crevasses pop out the picture.
I saw this place on a TV travel show in Australia recently and it is definitely on my bucket list of places to go. I did a square crop to exploit the walkway drawing the viewer into the scene. I recovered the highlights using the tone equalizer module. _DSC5959.NEF.xmp (14.4 KB)
This brought me to a bit brighter edit where I tried to get some white-out feeling looking to the horizon. I tried as well to get rid of the reflections.
Its used as a tonemapper, basically a tool to manage DNR in your image and map what is coming from the scene as captured by your camera and then it maps to the DNR of your display… There are a lot of moving parts as tonemapping your DNR introduces some changes that need to be managed …
