Cabin in the country

[David Thomasson]

Near Lynchburg, Virginia. This is actually three separate cabins that had been abandoned many years ago, all on different farms. My cousin had them taken apart, hauled to his land, and reassembled as one cabin.

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f164/Peano2/cabin.jpg

[David Thomasson]

This is the unretouched photo:

http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/5426/cabin2zh2.jpg

[Alfred Forns]

Amazing project David !!! I'll bet there is some serious history there !!!

[Tony Whitehead]

Lovely result, David . Both with the cabin and your image. What techniques did you use on the image?

[David Thomasson]

Lovely result, David . Both with the cabin and your image. What techniques did you use on the image?

Thanks, Tony. It was a fairly involved process that started with pushing several settings in ACR -- including recovery, fill, and clarity. The color dodge layer is a sketch technique; you invert the image, change mode to color dodge, apply G/blur and also paint with black to create the effect. Here's the layer stack to give you some idea of the other steps.

http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/5189/cabinlayersyi6.jpg

[Robert Amoruso]

Thanks for posting the techniques David. I will have to give it a try.