About This Photo

Outside of it’s reputation for the mountains in the west, Colorado’s eastern plains provide a different kind of beauty. Each year, summertime is brought to a close by the blooming fields of sunflowers in early August. Lasting around three weeks before they begin to die, the yellow fields travel on as far as the eye can see. The farmers move the fields move each year, so sometime’s they are difficult to find. The best area to begin a search is just south of Denver International Airport. An old wives tale says that sunflowers follow the sun east to west as it moves across the sky, but when the sun sets in the west, these sunflowers were still facing east allowing me to shoot into the setting sun.

Topics Covered In This Tutorial

• Brightness/Tonal Contrast
• White Balance
• Vibrance/Saturation
• Chromatic Aberration
• Cropping/Straightening
• Sharpening/Noise Reduction

Software Used

• Adobe Lightroom 5
• Adobe Photoshop CC
• Nik Color Efex Pro (used, but not required)
• Nik Sharpener Pro (used, but not required)
• Nik Dfine (used, but not required)

Included In Your Purchase

• 25 minute MP4 video showing entire editing process.
• The original RAW file for you to edit along (released under Creative Commons).
• My final edited photo.
• Instructions and helpful links.

Gear

Camera Body: Canon 5D Mark II
Lens: Canon 24-105 f/4 L
Support: Manfrotto MT294C3

EXIF

1/4 seconds @f/14 ISO 400 Focal Length: 95mm

Date / Time

August 17, 2011 7:03PM MST