Snowy Path

Here is a little reminder of the season that just ended, and a good candidate for some experimentation with vignetting.

I used a layer mask with an ellipse to get the vignette effect. But, at first, the corners were completely black, and I did not care for it very much. So I decided to make that layer transparent and obtained the shadowed corners. What do you think of it?

To do the B&W conversion, I used a desaturation layer, and increase the contrast with a Levels and a Curves layer.

f/22, ISO 400, 55 mm, 1/125 sec.