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Ian Coristine
The St. Lawrence River is a deep emerald green in the 1000 Islands, but when shooting early or late with the sun at a low angle, it’s possible to capture it as inky black, which is much more dramatic.
I did nothing to this image beyond the DxO processing, and here again chose to turn off the lighting engine, to preserve the contrast. If I had selected it, DxO’s lighting is so powerful, it would have brought out the water’s natural green, which I didn’t want. This flexibility of choice within the adjustments is extremely important.
Note how DxO pops the detail in the stonework and the windows by correcting lens blur. This is without any post sharpening, which could bring it out further if desired.
This by the way is not a castle, it’s simply the powerhouse for a much larger island castle, built by George Boldt at the turn of the century. Boldt was the proprietor of New York’s Waldorf Astoria, by far the finest hotel in the world at that time. Many of the most successful business tycoons of that era adopted the 1000 Islands as their chosen place and their excesses gave new meaning to the term “cottage”.
I did nothing to this image beyond the DxO processing, and here again chose to turn off the lighting engine, to preserve the contrast. If I had selected it, DxO’s lighting is so powerful, it would have brought out the water’s natural green, which I didn’t want. This flexibility of choice within the adjustments is extremely important.
Note how DxO pops the detail in the stonework and the windows by correcting lens blur. This is without any post sharpening, which could bring it out further if desired.
This by the way is not a castle, it’s simply the powerhouse for a much larger island castle, built by George Boldt at the turn of the century. Boldt was the proprietor of New York’s Waldorf Astoria, by far the finest hotel in the world at that time. Many of the most successful business tycoons of that era adopted the 1000 Islands as their chosen place and their excesses gave new meaning to the term “cottage”.
