The sun rises through the mountains - a photo on Flickriver

            I took this picture early morning from above Chambery, in the French Alps. I was interested in the streaks of light in the distance. I purposely under-exposed the picture, to focus the interest on the light and the clouds.

I post-processed it using the darktable software to add a more dramatic effect. The key ingredients were to increase local contrast on the horizon and the streaks of lights using the equalizer filter with clarity preset, and to add a bit of color using split toning. I was also careful to choose a crop giving a lot of importance to the horizon, and to create a bit of a vignetting effect, letting the clouds fade to dark on top of the picture.

More specifically, I used the exposure filter to fade to dark the top; equalizer filters in clarity preset and tone curves to play with lights and contrast on the horizon and in the center of the image (making sure to keep more contrast in the point of interest, ie the focal point). I used color correction to push highlights to pink and split toning to push shadows to blue and highlights to yellow. Finally, I suppressed some details from the foreground by making them even darker with an exposure filter.

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Taken in: France / Rhône-Alpes / Montagnole (show map)

Taken on: October 6, 2018

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Groups appears in: • The Light Fantastic • Mountains Anywhere more » • BEST SUNSET AND SUN RISE GROUP • Flickr Heroes « less

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