I hope you enjoy editing the photo, I found the mix of the low contrast areas in the shade and the high contrast created by the pink sun light quite the challenge. And jep, the focus is not exactly optimal - oh well.
I agree, it is impressively sad how fast the retracting of the glaciers… on the other hand, the image is really amazing, and your edit is impressive.
Would you be willing to reveal your “secret sauce” and show your intermediate steps? I believe this could even turn out as a very good landscape processing tutorial!
I have started to play with this image, but I am still very far from what you have achieved
so nice, thanks for sharing! I tried to go for a “late evening” mood, and it turned out somewhat similar to yours – but that was unintentional I used a different crop though…
Since this thread has already been dug up by @saliniero , and the scenery is gorgeous, I’d been drawn to try my hand at it
I used masks and reverse multiply blending (with local contrast and black/w conversion) to manage contrasts and lighting effects, managed colors with channel mixer (from color calibration) and color zones. Now that I’m done a realize I could probably have used color balance to better manage some aspect of it …
The result is a little too low key to my test but I do not manage to tackle this elegantly so displaying as it came out.
