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Fallen Leaves after Rainfall
The photo from which this was made was taken in my backyard nine years ago -- about two years after I traded my film camera in on my first digital one. I hadn't, yet, learned the value of shooting RAW, so the photo was a jpg in sRGB color space. The first version of the image was done shortly after the shot was taken and was sorely in need of a new life.
Nikon D1, ISO 200, f/43, 1/4 sec, 105mm macro lens
post-processing
- Adobe Camera Raw -- Clarity and some teaking of Saturation and Luminance (The purple/magenta portion of the maple leaf didn't result from ACR processing, however.)
- Topaz Simplify -- Watercolor II
- Nik Color Efex -- Contrast Color Range, Darken/Lighten Center
- Flypaper Textures -- a bluish texture with brown around the edges was applied to the brown leaf because I like blue with brown and to complement the yellow in the maple leaf, Linear Light blend mode
- Because that lightened the brown leaf, another copy of the Nik layer was added to darken it. Luminosity blend mode
- To produce a shadow under the maple leaf, a black layer was masked to its shape, altered with a 10-pixel Gaussian blur, and moved a bit.
- another copy of the Nik layer masked to show the maple leaf above the shadow
- original background layer -- masked to reveal the water drops before the application of Topaz Simplify, Luminosity blend mode
- Fractalius -- two B&W layers based on the old Sketch preset, Multiply blend mode
- Alien Skin Snap Art -- duplicate B&W Stylize Line Art layers, one at Multiply blend mode masked to everything but the water drops, one at Divide blend mode masked to only the drops
- yellow border -- Difference blend mode, layer positioned below the one showing the maple leaf above the shadow