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Must See: Montana Fall Road Trip - 2022

Wild Goose Overlook - St. Mary's Lake - East Side Going to the Sun Road - Glacier National Park Fall is like the blissful sunset of a beautiful day. The colors of the year blazing into brilliant reds and oranges. The weather holding out the last vestiges of warmth. And all the world seems to be curling up over a cozy mug of hot chocolate in the waning light. Just before the cold night of winter settles in. I love fall. And everything that it brings with it. Especially, I love the mountains in fall. How they can go from striking to moody in a matter of moments. And, (even) most especially, I love Glacier National Park in the fall. It is spectacle for the senses. Bright colors. Cool breezes. Altitudes and reflections. Hiking. Grazing moose. Scampering bears.  Head out highway 2 toward West Glacier and you are astounded by the sheer mountainous walls marking the entrance to the park. But, before you do that, my wife reminds me in one of those step on the brakes sort of ways, you absol...
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MidWeek Edit: In the Market

Here in Midweek Edits, I take a look back at a random BKP favorite and re-imagine it. This week's image comes from a shop in the Arab markets in Jerusalem. This is one of my favorites because of the humanity it shows - regular people going about everyday business. There is so much vibrance in this picture - beyond the color. I love the moment it captures. You can gets prints of this MidWeek Edit and others here.

Shop in the Arab Markets in Jerusalem
In the Market - SOOC
The SOOC image has a significant dynamic range too broad for my Canon 40D and EF-S 10-22mm. You can see a significant loss of detail in the shadows and the highlights. The original edit was all about reigning this in. To do that, I used an Adobe Lightroom preset I call Brick Wall which bumps the exposure by +0.4, increases brightness, drops blacks, and bumps vibrance and saturation. In the tone curve, it bumps highlights and lights, and reduces darks and shadows. Finally, I dropped the saturation and luminance on Oranges a bit, and added in the EF-S 10-22mm lens profile with this as the result.
Shop in the Arab Markets in Jerusalem
In the Market - Original Edit
You can see the imagine feels very dense. On the re-imagine, I wanted to make it feel more like you are standing right there - the way your eye would truly see it. To do so, I started with shifting the light balance to 2950 to compensate for the yellow in the lights. Next, I bump the exposure by +0.5, cranked up the recovery to bring in the detail around the bare lightbulbs, and added some fill light to bring in the foreground. I pushed the clarity to 63 to draw out the finer details in the products, and desaturated slightly because of the distracting and clashing colors. A simple touch on the tone curve to drop shadows and preserve the feel of the night shot, lens profile correction, and finally a bit of vignette to keep the eye from wondering out of the edges of the image. And, voila:
Shop in the Arab Markets in Jerusalem
In the Market - re-imagined
Finally, a B&W version.
Shop in the Arab Markets in Jerusalem
In the Market - Black and White

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Brad Kehr is a photographer specializing in weddings, events, portraits, and landscapes. He enjoys exploring DC and sharing what he finds through the lens. You can catch his website at www.bradkehrphotography.com, follow him on Twitter (@bradkehrphoto), or find him on Facebook.

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