I've been meaning to get this shot for the last 3 years.... but have always been foiled by arriving too late in the season or bad weather. I'd have liked a wider angle lens to have done it more justice.... but resorted to a stitched panorama.
This is a panorma stitched from 7 shots. The "Punch Bowl" in Valley Gardens (Windsor Great park) is full of amazing colours at t he moment as you can see.
The stitch was done in Photoshop and then the blown out white sky was replaced for a more dramatic sky from a streaky cloud shot with an ND110 filter.
The sky was replaced using alpha chanel layer masks and a refine edge plus multiply layer blend mode to ensure the detail around the trees, leaves and twigs was not haloed. I'm quite pleased with the result.
I also added a velvia film effect using the channel mixer upping each channel individually to 130% whilst compensating the other two by -15% to give a balanced tone with no colour cast.
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Showing posts with label colours. Show all posts
Showing posts with label colours. Show all posts
Friday, May 21, 2010
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Textures, Shapes, Colours : A Photowalk Montage
It's been a while since I've blogged and am trying to catch up.....This montage is from a lunchtime photowalk in February around my work with the Photography club. There were various themes and I chose to focus (pun intended) on shapes/patterns, colours and textures. This is the result compiled together as a montage.
I've had lots of positive comments from people at work about it :-)
I've had lots of positive comments from people at work about it :-)
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Full Spectrum
Another attempt at water drops on a DVD and I'm much happier with the results this time. This was done in day light with a much more definitive light source... the window is fairly obvious in the reflection.
Processed in Lightroom with a large amount of clarity and increse ont he blacks slider to make the colours really pop and the dark grey DVD surface go black.
This reminds me of my favourite Pink Floyd Album " Dark Side of the Moon"
I love how the streak of colour coming in from the left goes from red/orange through to yellow/green.
Taken with a 100mm macro lens with a 250D screw in filter attached for extra magnification. Each water drop was probablt < clear="all">
Processed in Lightroom with a large amount of clarity and increse ont he blacks slider to make the colours really pop and the dark grey DVD surface go black.
This reminds me of my favourite Pink Floyd Album " Dark Side of the Moon"
I love how the streak of colour coming in from the left goes from red/orange through to yellow/green.
Taken with a 100mm macro lens with a 250D screw in filter attached for extra magnification. Each water drop was probablt < clear="all">
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Psychedlic Smoke : First Attempt
Bought some insence sticks at the wekeend to try this, inspired by the "tutorial" below.
www.flickr.com/photos/antsplan/1439859052/
Strobist. : 580EXII into Lumiquest "Ultrasoft" diffuser @1/4power camera right triggered with cactusV4's.
www.flickr.com/photos/antsplan/1439859052/
Strobist. : 580EXII into Lumiquest "Ultrasoft" diffuser @1/4power camera right triggered with cactusV4's.
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