Morning Shift at Grand Manan Island (Canada)

I took the featured photo a long time ago during my very first trip to the Bay of Fundy and Grand Manan Island located in Canadain Atlantic province of New Brunswick.

To get to the Grand Manan Island, it takes a two-hour ferry ride. I took the very first ferry of the day and we reached the island around 9 am. This is was my first encounter with the Grand Manan. The fog was still thick and the tide was still high when we saw a small fisherman boat emerging from the mist. It looked mysterious.

Forty minutes later the rising sun burnt away the fog and it became extremely hot and humid for the rest of the day.

This year I visited Grand Manan on my way to Prince Edward Island and it was foggy and moody again. But this time, I took a couple of interesting shots of the same scene from the top of the rocky shore facing the ocean.

Shooting & Processing

I was on a fast-moving ferry and it was shaky. I made sure to reduce the shutter speed to 1/400sec to prevent unsharp and blurry photos and I took a series of single shots hand-held.

I used a single RAW image editing in Lightroom. I described the process in Lightroom Rapid Editing System for Landscapes.

First I applied Lightroom preset Natural from my Landscape Collection and later I used ToolKit to boost colors and contrast.

The Lightroom Preset Editing Formula: Natural (4, 13, 17, 22, 32)

Deconstructing Featured Photo

• Camera: Canon 60D
• Lens: Sigma 17-70mm
• Focal Length: 57mm
• ISO: 100
• Aperture: F6.3
• Shutter: 1/400
• Bracketing: single shot
• Tripod: FEISOL Tournament CT-3442  – Check my FEISOL Tournament CT-3442 Review.

Processing:

Lightroom: import, tagging, cropping, Lightroom Rapid Editing, Editing Formula: Natural (4, 13, 17, 22, 32)
Photoshop: color correction, contrast, cleaning.

Photoshop Plugins: 

• Topaz DeNoise was used to reduce digital noise (sky, water).
• Topaz Clarity was used to enhance details and boost colors (rocks, cliffs).