Cabot Trail Fall Colour Sunrise

[Manfred M]

We are spending a few days on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.

This was the sunrise we saw this morning. The trees are showing the beautiful red and yellow fall colours. We spent around 8 hours driving the Cabot Trail, considered to be one of the most scenic drive in the world. Much of our time was spent in the Cape Breton Highlands National Park.


Cabot Trail Colours 01 by Manfred Mueller, on Flickr

[Round Tuit]

Lovely scene Manfred. One could spend a lot of time dodging and burning on it. One nit picking thing that I would do is get rid of the steeple.

[LenR]

Agree with Andiron this one. The image has a lot of potential.
I would also clone out the strip of road to the right of the steeple.

[Manfred M]

I left both the church spire and road in so as to draw in the viewer's eye. I initially removed both and found the image did not work as well.

[DanK]

A very interesting composition.

Neither the steeple nor the road bothered me, but they also didn't draw my eye. Too small to do that.

This is an image where I would play with color separation. Of course, I have no idea what the actual scene looks like, but the colors have a slight magenta cast and aren't separated too well. I played with selective color and found that only modifying the reds really mattered. I pull cyan and magenta down a bit and increased yellow by the same amount. The changes with these small changes are subtle, but it seemed to me that this is something worth pursuing further.

[Manfred M]

Thanks Dan - I'm working on my laptop that is not calibrated or profiled, so I can't say that the colours are right on. I don't have my pen display along, so I'm not dodging and burning at the level I usually work to either.

I will have a look when I get back home.

[Manfred M]

Now that I am at home again and am not working on a laptop in a hotel room, I have gone back and cleaned up this image using my regular tools. I feel that it is much more effective now.

[DanK]

the new version has much more color separation. Much improved, IMHO.

[Round Tuit]

I agree with Dan. This is much better. Good tools always help!

[Manfred M]

I will be upgrading my tools next week (I hope). I have a new computer and monitor on order and everything should be in my hands about a week from now.

[DanK]

I will be upgrading my tools next week (I hope). I have a new computer and monitor on order and everything should be in my hands about a week from now.

That's good news and bad. I am in the midst of doing exactly that. My computers were leased, and the lease expired. I'm in the midst of organizing everything that needs to be copied, installed, or configured to get ready for the swap on Monday (no overlap). The worst by far is the configuration. In my experience, for weeks after the change, I get stopped in my tracks because something isn't configured correctly.

The complications started already. I bought a new 4TB external SSD so that I could have everything copied in a logical manner in one place. I started by copying the 2 TB external SSD that serves as my first backup (a mirror really, not a backup) of my photo stuff. This confused my online backup software, which duplicated its local cataloging file on the new drive and sent me a page explaining options for resolving it.

[Manfred M]

That's good news and bad. I am in the midst of doing exactly that. My computers were leased, and the lease expired. I'm in the midst of organizing everything that needs to be copied, installed, or configured to get ready for the swap on Monday (no overlap). The worst by far is the configuration. In my experience, for weeks after the change, I get stopped in my tracks because something isn't configured correctly.

The complications started already. I bought a new 4TB external SSD so that I could have everything copied in a logical manner in one place. I started by copying the 2 TB external SSD that serves as my first backup (a mirror really, not a backup) of my photo stuff. This confused my online backup software, which duplicated its local cataloging file on the new drive and sent me a page explaining options for resolving it.

I rather expect a similar experience, although I will have the machines handy and sitting close together. My wife and I are still running Windows 10 machines, and both have been working marginally for quite some time now, so I get to go through that experience on both computers. I have Windows 11 on my laptop, so at least I have a few years of working with that operating system under my belt.

I look forward to things running faster as some operations are really slow (I built my current computer about 10 years ago, so it really owes me nothing).

[DanK]

although I will have the machines handy and sitting close together.

That's what I've always done in the past. That makes it much simpler: if you forget to copy something or need to replicate settings, just go back to the old machine. This time, they insisted that I have to return the second one no later than the end of the week, and given that my new location would require about 3 hours of driving round trip for a second trip in, I'm trying to make do without.