Julie Kenward
09-19-2008, 10:26 PM
I watched a short video today where a photographer reminded me that our images are never about the subject of our image but about the light itself. I went out looking at things tonight with that thought bouncing around in my head and I came home with some beautifully lit images. How much of it was the early autumn light and how much of it was my thinking about the LIGHT being my main subject I'm not sure - but something worked!
I converted the raw file in ACR and then imported it into Photoshop. I ran an Orton Effect action and then an ethereal glow action over the top of that, masking it from the tree and leaves in the foreground and leaving it to further diffuse the light and leaves in the background. I finished it with a green frame, blurring it and dropping the opacity way down so it would barely be visible.
Here comes autumn!!!
I converted the raw file in ACR and then imported it into Photoshop. I ran an Orton Effect action and then an ethereal glow action over the top of that, masking it from the tree and leaves in the foreground and leaving it to further diffuse the light and leaves in the background. I finished it with a green frame, blurring it and dropping the opacity way down so it would barely be visible.
Here comes autumn!!!