Photo by Gilbert Sauve
Cathedral Cove, BC
In 2013, while on holidays on Vancouver Island, we visited Cathedral Grove (or MacMillan Provincial Park), a renowned, easily accessible old-growth forest located on central Vancouver Island, BC. Situated along Highway 4 between Parksville and Port Alberni, it protects giant 800-year-old Douglas firs and western red cedar.
Post processing notes:
This is an old photograph from 2013 that I've processed a few times. This last edition was processed with Photo Raw 2026. No cropping necessary. As original picture was kind of backlit and overexposed, I have used a linear profile and I had to reduce exposure, increase midtones and shadows and apply negative haze to get that special contrast it confers to the photo. Then in Effects I added Dynamic contrast with a depth mask to target main trunks and branches, a glow filter (charge more) with luminosity mask, a color grading filter and a vignette. Last touch: dodge and burn in local adj. tabExif information:
| Copyright: | Gilbert Sauve |
| Camera: | NIKON D80 |
| Aperture: | f/11 |
| Focal Length: | 60mm |
| ISO: | 100 |
| Shutter Speed: | 3/1 sec. |
| Created: | August 30, 2013 23:38:39 |