Heading off to Explore Shenandoah National Park!

            While at a roadside pull off next to the Front Royal park entrance sign to Shenandoah National Park. The view is looking to the east down the Skyline Drive where one Jeep Wrangler was heading and several other park cars off in the distance around the Dickey Ridge Trailhead. My thought in composing this image was to use the road as a leading line and have the trees all around, adding to the setting and view ahead. 

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 7. I then exported a TIFF image to Nik Color Efex Pro 7 where I added a Polarization, Foliage and Pro Contrast filter for that last effect on the image captured.

Taken in: United States / Virginia / Belmont (show map)

Taken on: April 20, 2024

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Along Roadside

Appalachian Mountains

Azimuth 81

Blue Ridge Mountains

Blue Skies

Blues Skies with Clouds

Cars

Cars Driving

Cars Parked

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Day 1

DxO PhotoLab 7 Edited

Forest

Forest Landscape

Grassy Area

Grassy Field

Grassy Meadow

Hillside of Trees

Landscape

Landscape - Scenery

Looking East

Meadows

Nature

Nikon Z8

Northern Blue Ridge

Off Side of Road

Open Road Ahead

Outside

Partly Cloudy

Partly Sunny

People

Road

Roadside Pulloff

Roadside Stop

Rolling Hillsides

Scenics - Nature

Shenandoah Blue Ridge Great Smokey Mountains

Shenandoah National Park

Shenandoah-North Section

Side of Road

Skyline Drive

SnapBridge

Standing on Side of Road

Sunny

Travel

Trees

Woodland

Virginia

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Camera: Nikon Z 8, f/4.5, 1/400 sec, 55mm, ISO 64 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon Z 8
Lens:	VR 24-120mm f/4G
Aperture:	f/4.5
Exposure Time:	0.003 sec (1/400)
Focal Length:	55mm
ISO:	64
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Scene Capture Type:	Landscape
Sharpness:	Hard
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	DxO PhotoLab 7.6.0
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