Fall scene Orton Effect

From last October here in the Northeast
Playing around with different Orton Effects

Nikon D3
200mm 2.0 lens
F14
1/320th
ISO 400

John, this is lovely but I'd back down on the yellow saturation just a bit. I think you'll find it gives it a bit more detail.

The colors and reflection are phenomenal!

Who is Orton and where ydo ou find him? Or her?

You can Google his name and or the Orton Technique

He use to photograpg a scene with slide film . One tack sharp overexposed and another out of focus overexposed then he would sandwich the two slides and create a soft blur around a sharp object works well with fall foliage and old cars and such things like that.

Now with photoshop it is easier to recreate the effect with layers and blurs

Artie, Fabs originally turned us on to him down here in OOTB. I found an Orton effect action that works on Photoshop that helped teach me what it was all about. You (and anyone else who's interested) can find the free action at www.atn.com. Once you see the action work you can unflatten the layers and it pretty much gives you the process.

It's great on all these landscapes and what not but you should see it on portraits! You have to lower the opacity of the blur quite a bit but it can give an amazing "dreamy" quality to them that clients go ga-ga over.

Beautifully done!

Maestro, you can find a short tutorial here:

http://www.birdphotographers.net/for...ad.php?t=11216

Thanks for the link, Jules :)

Hi John,
Its a beautiful composition...agree with Julie on desaturing the yellows, they are a bit on the hot side...:cool:

Thanks a ton to John, Julie, and Fabs. I have actually used the technique without the action.

Really nice John just back down the saturation a bit !!! Big Congrats !!!