Shutter-life|Adaptive photography and more, by Henrik Johansson

Despite a couple of very sore calfs from an 18.5 mile cross-country running race, I went out to photograph the magnificent autumn colors last Sunday. I had a great time walking around in Uppsala and as I approached our 16th century castle, this old Chevrolet drove by me. I barely managed to get this snapshot before it had passed me. The post-processing was straight-forward and serves as a good exemple that you don’t always need to apply all of those fancy techniques. First, I increased the clarity and saturation quite a bit. I also boosted the contrast using both the tone curve and the blacks slider. To lighten up the wall, I had to add some fill light and increased the illumination of the red and orange tones. Because the back of the car was a bit overexposed, I had to use the recovery slider. As a final touch, I made the blue tones a bit darker.