The Flickr Clevelandshale Image Generatr

A sideward view looking across the creek and then falls. Because of the rains the day prior, I didn't need to close have a longer shutter speed even with a variable ND filter I was using. Composing the image was a matter of lining of the creek and waterfalls while using some of the nearby trees and plantlife to complete this setting in Cuyahoga Valley National Park. I worked with control points and color control points in Capture NX2 to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted. I then added a Foliage and Darken/Lighten Center CEP filter to give that little bit extra for the final image.

A conversion to black & white using Capture NX2 where I used some color filters to bring out a much richer tonal contrast for the final image.

Captured at Brandywine Falls in Cuyahoga Valley National Park.

Another angled and sideward view across the falls while including some nearby trees and plantlife to complete a setting in this part of Cuyahoga Valley National Park.

I decided to try out this "Ansel Adams Look" I'd read about in Jason Odell's book on Capture NX2. The idea is to work with the LCH editor, making some adjustments, and then use a Black point and White point before converting to black & white.

My first stop upon entering Cuyahoga Valley National Park. To say this was a show for a waterfall might be a little bit of an overstatement. With the recent rainstorm that had passed over this area, the streams and rivers were quite filled with water! So that's what I came across when I walked up to this overlook point to Brandywine Falls and decided to try out a longer exposure with a variable ND filter I had in a hiking buttpack I was walking with. I felt I could take advantage of the flow and practice on capturing an image with a longer exposure (and not blow any highlights!). The next thing I set up was a CamRanger that I'd played around with earlier this trip. I found it was easy to control the exposure and focus with that using my iPhone and then get immediate feedback with a bigger screen than that of the LCD on my Nikon D800E. I liked how that then made for more visible adjustments. I initially brought the NEF/RAW image into Aurora HDR Pro so I could pull out the dynamic range seen without any color casts I'd experienced in Capture NX2. I was later able bring an export TIFF image back into that program and use control points and color control points to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image here.

An image captured while walking through the woods along the trail just beyond the main overlook to Brandywine Falls. I decided to use this small clearing through the trees and use that to frame the image of the waterfall to my front. I set up my tripod and used a CamRanger hooked into my iPhone in order to get the right shutter speed and the exposure that I wanted. I could then verify with it by looking at the screen on my iPhone. After some initial work with Aurora HDR Pro and the export a TIFF image to Capture NX2. I then used some control points and color control points to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image here.

Cliff face on Euclid Creek at Welsh Woods in the Euclid Creek Reservation, one of the Cleveland Metroparks in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States.

The creek here mostly cuts through the soft Cleveland Shale and Chagrin Shale. Ohio at that time was covered by an inland sea, the Appalachian Basin. That sea deposited fine silts which became shale.

The Chagrin Shale is the lower shale, while the Cleveland Shale is the darker shale at the top.

Cliff face adjacent to Euclid Creek at Welsh Woods in the Euclid Creek Reservation, one of the Cleveland Metroparks in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States.

The creek here mostly cuts through the soft Cleveland Shale and Chagrin Shale. Ohio at that time was covered by an inland sea, the Appalachian Basin. That sea deposited fine silts which became shale.

The Chagrin Shale is the lower shale, while the Cleveland Shale is the darker shale at top.

Cleveland Shale adjacent to Euclid Creek at Welsh Woods in the Euclid Creek Reservation, one of the Cleveland Metroparks in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States.

The creek here mostly cuts through the soft Cleveland Shale and Chagrin Shale. Ohio at that time was covered by an inland sea, the Appalachian Basin. That sea deposited fine silts which became shale.

Cliff face adjacent to Euclid Creek at Welsh Woods in the Euclid Creek Reservation, one of the Cleveland Metroparks in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States.

The creek here mostly cuts through the soft Cleveland Shale and Chagrin Shale. Ohio at that time was covered by an inland sea, the Appalachian Basin. That sea deposited fine silts which became shale.

The Chagrin Shale is the lower shale, while the Cleveland Shale is the darker shale at top.

Cliffs on Euclid Creek at Welsh Woods in the Euclid Creek Reservation, one of the Cleveland Metroparks in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States.

The creek here mostly cuts through the soft Cleveland Shale and Chagrin Shale. Ohio at that time was covered by an inland sea, the Appalachian Basin. That sea deposited fine silts which became shale.

The Chagrin Shale is the lower part of this cliff face, while the darker Cleveland Shale is at the top.

Cleveland Shale (below) and Berea Sandstone at Tinkers Creek Gorge near Bedford, Ohio.

Cleveland Shale (below) and Berea Sandstone at Tinkers Creek Gorge near Bedford, Ohio.

Bluestone texture from dancingshiba.
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