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A view looking to the east with Aurora Borealis/Northern Lights above. This was without a doubt a magical evening while staying at the North Face Lodge in Denali National Park & Preserve!

An image captured with a more sweeping view, looking across some nearby tundra in Denali National Park. With the angling of my Nikon SLR camera slightly downward, it included more of the tundra and brought some of those snowcapped peaks of the Alaska range into the upper part of the image. I did some initial post-processing work making adjustments to contrast, brightness and saturation while playing around as I learned how to work with DxO PhotoLab 3 that I’d recently purchased after moving away from Capture NX2.

A view looking to the south-southeast from a balcony view in the North Face Lodge area in Denali National Park & Preserve. My thinking with this image was to use an average wide-angle view looking across this tundra as it led to some nearby hilltops and ridgelines, before coming to the snowcapped peaks of Denali and the Alaska Range. While there were some clouds around those peaks, I was able to use the ClearView Tool in DxO PhotoLab 3 to bring some clarity to them. I did some initial post-processing work making adjustments to contrast, brightness and saturation while playing around as I learned how to work with DxO PhotoLab 3 that I’d recently purchased after moving away from Capture NX2.

Not too long after sunset with the light from the evening sun still shining on the snowcapped peaks of Denali. The view is looking to the south in the North Face Lodge area in Denali National Park & Preserve. While I could have kept more of the nearby landscape in silhouette, I decided to pull those shadowed areas and get the right colors across the tundra and leaves with autumn colors.

What I’d call a medium wide angle view (50mm) and image captured looking to the southeast from a side porch viewing area in the North Face Lodge area while staying a few days in Denali National Park & Preserve. My thinking with this image was to angle my Nikon SLR camera slightly downward, capturing more of a sweeping view across the autumn colors that were starting to come out across the tundra in this part of the national park. I would have a little bit of blue skies above but wanted to minimize that as I felt it was more of a negative space. I was though able to capture the full breath of the mountain peaks to my front with Mount Brooks on the image left leading all the way to Denali on the image right. I did some initial post-processing work making adjustments to contrast, brightness and saturation while playing around as I learned how to work with DxO PhotoLab 3 that I’d recently purchased after moving away from Capture NX2.

A view looking to the east with Aurora Borealis/Northern Lights above. This was without a doubt a magical evening while staying at the North Face Lodge in Denali National Park & Preserve!

A conversion to black & white using DxO PhotoLab 3 where I made some adjustments to color filters to bring out a much richer tonal contrast for the final image.

A view looking to the south to the snowcapped peak of Denali as it seemingly rose above a nearby ridgeline. This is while I was staying at the North Face Lodge and Camp Denali area of the national park. I did some initial post-processing work making adjustments to contrast, brightness and saturation while playing around as I learned how to work with DxO PhotoLab 3 that I’d recently purchased after moving away from Capture NX2.

From the North Face Lodge area in Denali National Park with a view looking across some nearby tundra to the south with the snowcapped peaks of Denali rising above a ridgeline. As the hours of the afternoon slowly went by, the haze from the recent forest fires mixed with the bright afternoon sunlight slowly faded away and brought out much more distinct details with Denali. Metering the image was a matter of bringing down the exposure enough for the brighter, more highlighted areas in the upper portion the image while still being able to later pull out the more shadowed areas across the tundra. I did some initial post-processing work making adjustments to contrast, brightness and saturation while playing around as I learned how to work with DxO PhotoLab 3 that I’d recently purchased after moving away from Capture NX2.

From the North Face Lodge area when the peaks of the Alaska Range were just coming out from clouds but caught in an "alpine glow" of afternoon sunlight.

A view of the group of hikers I was with going down a quite steep hillside with tundra. The image itself was both about the hikers and the amazing landscape in this part of Denali National Park.

More of a wider angle view that I captured of the setting around the North Face Lodge and Camp Denali area while looking to the south to the snowcapped peaks with Denali and others of the Alaska Range in that part of the national park. Composing the image was a matter of determining how far I wanted to angle my Nikon SLR camera downward or upward. The big thing in my mind was to meter this setting properly as there was still a little bit of haze that mixed with the sunlight. I think I would have blown some of the highlights and lost details in the snowcapped peaks and added much more noise with the blue skies above.

A view looking to the east with Aurora Borealis/Northern Lights above. This was without a doubt a magical evening while staying at the North Face Lodge in Denali National Park & Preserve!

A view looking to the north-northeast while on a guided tour and hike around that part of the national park.