more raindrops
Lest you think I've developed a strange fascination with raindrops, let me assure you it's not so. With a few exceptions, I do images pretty much in the order in which the shots were taken. We must've had a lot of rain last July. This is the last raindrop one for a while. You knew right away it was raindrops, right?The rain had stopped but was still dripping from the trees overhead when I came to a puddle by the side of the street. The blue diagonals are from a double line next to the edge of the street. The upper left corner bursts are a couple sparse clumps of grass, and the uuper right is the part of the street just beyond the edge of the puddle.
iPhone 5s, ISO 200, f/2.2, 1/250 second, PureShot camera app, first and last photos from a three-shot burst
processing highlights
- The two best ripples were in the first and last photos. The two shots were layered and a good bit of the top one (near one of the stripes) was deleted.
- Orientation was a compromise, but I rotated the image 90-degrees clockwise.
- Topaz Simplify -- saved watercolor preset
- Alien Skin Snap Art -- saved watercolor wash preset, Color blend mode
- Nik Silver Efex -- Luminosity blend mode a\ la Michael
- Invert adjustment layer -- reduced opacity
- Fractalius -- three black & white presets; Multiply, Divide, Multiply
- Simplify and Snap Art -- saved black & white line presets, Multiply (for black lines)
- same as above but Divide (for white lines) and offset a small amount from the black lines These two steps combine to give the raised effect.
- Photomorphis texture -- two layers, Color and Pin Light
