I come back after several years to Tre Cime of Lavaredo, an incredible and beautiful place known wordwide. Unlike last time I took the typical shot of the view of the Tre Cime closer to the blue hour
At that time some clouds were also rising that, few minutes later, covered the whole view in white, luckily I was able to capture the last images of the day of the visible peaks before they were covered
I take the shot using the focus stacking technique, focusing first on the small flowers in the foreground, then in the central part and then on the peaks. I taked some shots based on the alternation of the clouds on Tre Cime waiting to capture the shot that would make them visible at best, the result of 9 total photos is what you see in the image
WORKFLOW EXPLANATION
As mentioned I made this shot using focus stacking technique, I made it blending all the shots avaiable captured here, 9 shots with different focus parts included the image used for the peaks. I don’t use digital blending here because I don’t captured bracketed shots, the management of so many shots with different focus and also with different exposure would have created an incredible and not so usefull job to do in post
Therefore I edited the image using only luminosity masks and my panel TTS Pro, as usual we see the main steps of the workflow:
I added details and contrast to the whole frame, I fixed colours, than glow using orton effect . With the help of dodge and burn tool I lightened some darker part of the foreground and on the clouds
I increased the blue tones of the image adding a cold filter applied to highlights than shadows, I also used light bleeding to add some lights to the sky and colours to the clouds
I desaturate selectively some blue tones of the sky and as final step I added a soft dark vignette to the frame
TECNHNICAL STUFF
Camera: Nikon D850
Nikon 14-24f/2,8 (used @16mm)
Focus Stacking Serie
ISO: 100 f/14
Software: Photoshop CC2021
Plugin: TTS Pro 2.0
