Canon 5D Mk IV – EF 70-200mm f/2.8L II – 1/80, f/8, ISO 100

The temperature warmed up today, and will be even warmer the next two days, so much so that all of the snow will probably be gone by Tuesday. So I decided to go outside. After walking around a bit, I happened upon these footprints in the snow on ice. Getting under them proved tricky!

I didn’t have a flash on me, and normally I would have used oblique lighting to really make the image pop. In this case, the raw file was rather flat so I decided to see how I could enhance it in Lightroom. I jacked up the contrast and then pushed it even further by decreasing the shadows and blacks, and increasing the highlights and whites. I then pumped up the texture and clarity. Finally, I really increased the color temperature which gives it that warmer look (instead of a colder, bluish look).