Dennis Bishop
10-12-2014, 10:03 PM
This started out as a single shot taken aboard a large boat heading upriver on the Rhone in France. I thought the boat was moving too fast to shoot a sequence of HDR exposures. Two longer exposures and three shorter ones were done later with the Exposure slider in Adobe Camera RAW. The light rays that broke through the clouds were pretty much like this; the fainter extensions on the frame were added separately and masked off the HDR image.
Nikon Coolpix P7000, ISO 200, f/4.5, 1/2000 sec (-2 exposure compensation), zoom lens at 8.1mm (35mm film equivalent is 38mm)
processing highlights
Topaz Simplify -- saved watercolor preset
Alien Skin Snap Art -- saved watercolor wash preset, Color blend mode, 54% opacity
photo filter adjustment layer -- Warming 85, masked off sky and river
warm Flypaper Textures texture -- Linear Burn, 37%, masked off land
photo filter adjustment layer -- yellow (at a high density)
Fractalius -- two masked black & white layers: Divide, 83%; Multiply, 34%
Snap Art -- saved Line Art preset, two black & white layers: Multiply, 20%; masked Divide, 17%
Simplify -- saved edges preset, two masked black & white layers: Multiply, 61%; Divide, 51%
gradient vignette to finish off the photo part of the image. The rest is for the frame.
Snap Art -- a very abstract watercolor wash treatment applied in two layers: Normal and Multiply, both at 100%
duplicate Belle Fleur texture layers and a Flypaper Textures layer -- various blend modes and opacities
The masked Curves layers for the beams on the frame were blurred and treated with an Outer Glow layer effect; Normal blend mode, various opacities, masked off the HDR photo part of the image
Nikon Coolpix P7000, ISO 200, f/4.5, 1/2000 sec (-2 exposure compensation), zoom lens at 8.1mm (35mm film equivalent is 38mm)
processing highlights
Topaz Simplify -- saved watercolor preset
Alien Skin Snap Art -- saved watercolor wash preset, Color blend mode, 54% opacity
photo filter adjustment layer -- Warming 85, masked off sky and river
warm Flypaper Textures texture -- Linear Burn, 37%, masked off land
photo filter adjustment layer -- yellow (at a high density)
Fractalius -- two masked black & white layers: Divide, 83%; Multiply, 34%
Snap Art -- saved Line Art preset, two black & white layers: Multiply, 20%; masked Divide, 17%
Simplify -- saved edges preset, two masked black & white layers: Multiply, 61%; Divide, 51%
gradient vignette to finish off the photo part of the image. The rest is for the frame.
Snap Art -- a very abstract watercolor wash treatment applied in two layers: Normal and Multiply, both at 100%
duplicate Belle Fleur texture layers and a Flypaper Textures layer -- various blend modes and opacities
The masked Curves layers for the beams on the frame were blurred and treated with an Outer Glow layer effect; Normal blend mode, various opacities, masked off the HDR photo part of the image