Iced Bulwark

I always liked to photograph the frozen lakes and when I find one I never stop circling around looking for some rift or some interesting spot to shot 🙂
This is exactly what happened in this lake, where in my previous post, I talked about this represents one of my favorite photography locations
The surface of the lake was covered with transparent ice and below it you could see the vegetation, in some parts it emerged from the ice
I made this photo lying on the ice with the technique of focus stacking with bracketing to capture the two different points of focus, in this way I got 5 shots of different exposure per point
WORKFLOW EXPLANATION
I selected 2 shos to focus stack than with luminosity masks : I launched curves tool to fix lights around foreground and sky
I launched luminosity mask contrast using TTS PRO, after a color fix I pushed up the blues and yellow colors increasing in this way the violet tones
The next step was to increase detais, especially over the mountain, than with dodge and burn I give more prominence to the cracks on the ice
I reduced the exposure of the image and as final step I increased the highlights to give more enery to the sky
I always hope you will find this usefull. Love to ear this from you!
TECNHNICAL STUFF
Camera: Nikon D-800
Lens: Nikon 14-24mm f/2,8
Three Exposures Focus Stacked (–1; 0; +1)
ISO: 100 at f/10
Software: Photoshop CC2019
Plugin: TTS PRO