When this late snowfall arrived last year, I grabbed my camera and started snapping pictures. The combination of snow and blooming, green plants is amazing. The snow that’s falling down is actually coming from melting snow from the overhead trees. It was weird, all of a sudden the sun came out from behind the clouds, and big clumps of snow started falling everywhere. I took cover, and started shooting like mad.
April Snowfall
original version
1. I started by adding contrast to the sky, mountains, and the grass around the trampoline.
2. Here I’ve added more contrast to various parts of the image. I must have done something tricky with the way the contrast was added because the highlights are affected the most in the mountains, but down by the trampoline the shadows are affected the most.
3. I was messing around with the gradient map tool to get this. A similar image could be made with the curves tool. I overlayed this image with the previous image to get the image in picture #4
4. This is the resulting image after overlaying picture #3 with picture #2
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