Out of the Box Image of the Week for the week ending October 5th, 2012: Dennis Bishop - A Walk in the Woods
Congratulations Dennis!
This was taken almost two weeks ago in the same county park that has the old barn. The color has been changing rapidly, so it probably isn't this green, now.
9-exposure HDR at 1 EV intervals
Nikon D3s, ISO 200, f/22 (for depth of field and the star-burst effect), zoom lens at 34mm
post-processing
- Photomatix -- tone mapping for a good histogram
- Adobe Camera Raw -- Clarity and some tweaking of Saturation and Luminance
- cropped from the left for composition (star-burst in divine proportion horizontally; the horizon was already right vertically)
- Topaz Simplify -- Watercolor II preset
- Red Giant Knoll Light Factory -- additional rays of light with highly reduced opacity, masked off the foreground trees
- Flypaper Textrues -- a brown texture with dark edges and corners (for vignetting and warming the scene a bit), Hard Light blend mode, reduced opacity
- Curves -- two layers, one to lighten midtones and highlights, the other masked to lighten the foreground trees
- Fractalius -- two different b&w presets based on Sketch, one with Divide blend mode, the other with Multiply
- Alien Skin Snap Art -- Stylize Line Art preset with Divide blend mode
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