Making the most of a smoky October day in the temperate rainforest

in Photography Loverslast year (edited)

Green Chaos (2022)

"Smoky October day in the rainforest" isn't a phrase I ever thought I would utter, but here we are. We had a very weird autumn here in the PNW with summerlike conditions throughout September and October. The dryness and temperatures were record breaking, and we even had wildfires in the North Shore Mountains of Vancouver. In all my years living here, I cannot remember this ever happening.

Anyway, instead of sitting around and being miserable (which I admittedly did too much of), I decided to head out and see if I could use the smoky conditions to my advantage. Ultimately it ended up creating some pleasing depth and helped to create an orange/red diffraction spike, contrasting nicely with the cool greens and blues. Typically during this time of day it would be much whiter!

Here is the raw file straight out of Lightroom, before editing:

The difference in color is rather pronounced here because I was using an extremely wide 10-18mm lens with notoriously bad color rendition. Nikon's auto white balance also tends to have a huge magenta bias. The colors present in the edit are much more reflective of reality than the default raw.

I was using a fully manual lens, so I don't have EXIF for focal length and aperture, but if I recall they were 16mm and f/16 respectively. Shutter speed was 0.4s and ISO 100. Single exposure.

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Good to see you back! It's been a while. hahah Excellent shots as usual!

I've been very overwhelmed by social media and very lazy about writing. Not a good mix lol. But happy to be back!

I definitely understand!

Beautiful photos Tristan. While you have an extended summer to an extent, our spring has come in two months late. Which isn’t exactly ideal

From what I've heard from my friend in Melbourne it sounds like spring basically got skipped over there. And then all those floods. Crazy weather everywhere!

Sheesh even the raw image is stunning, but (and you already know this) I love the post-processing so much! I also am a huge sucker for sun flares in images, and you captured it perfectly here.

Thanks for the kind compliment Jess :)

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Beautiful!

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