Glade Creek Grist Mill
This mill is in West Virginia's Babcock State Park. I wanted in the worst way to be there when the water was frozen, but no such luck. Actually, that was probably just as well because the unheated lunatic asylum I shot in the day before was two hours farther north.
Nikon D3S, ISO 200, f/29, eight-exposure HDR at 1 EV intervals, zoom at 85mm
processing highlights
- Topaz Simplify -- Watercolor II with a reduced level of simplicity
- Nik Color Efex -- three layers (not necessarily consecutive), Darken/Lighten Center, Tonal Contrast, Contrast Color Range, and Sunlight
- 2 Photo Filter adjustment layers -- Underwater to everything but the mill, sluice, and wheel and lightly to the roof, Warming 85 to nothing but the mill, sluice, and wheel and lightly to the roof
- Redfield Fractalius -- two layers b&w preset at Multiply blend mode, 100% Opacity to entire image, 50% Opacity above falls
- Alien Skin Snap Art -- Stylize Line Art b&w, Multiply blend mode to all except water, Divide blend mode only to water
- uniform gradient vignette
- A sign jutting out from the back of the mill was removed, and -- because there was no water running through the sluice -- a bit of the falls was added to the sluice and the wheel.
