I love this image... one of those rare photos that look good right out of the camera. No levels, no contrast, no cropping needed.
After studying Ansel's work for a little while, I knew I'd have to drive to the mountains to find a similar shot in his style. So off I went.
When I got home, I messed around with the Channel Mixer for a couple hours trying to duplicate the look of his black and whites, and found that for this image, these channel mixer settings worked the best:
Red: +128
Green: -172
Blue: +142
That is it, just channel mixer. No dodging, and very slight burning in only a few places. However the grey and black tones of all the trees and folage are NOT minipulated at all with the Burn tool! The histogram shows no pure black pixels and no pure white pixels.
Since I hate using NeatImage in most cases, I used Guassian Blur instead on the sky only, and then applied a very light USM (only .3 pixel radius on this 620px image).
Hope you like this one as much as I do!
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