A blast from the past. While sending a good portion of yesterday researching and refining a certain technique I thought I would try it on on a particular image that has been lying around for a while now, never really getting to the point where I was comfortable with the end result … Well I tried a few new things out and now I am quite happy with the final image to go to print.
Great job! It’s a beautiful shot.
Cheers photographyfree4all … It is a stunning small section of California …
Sweet shot there Neal…great colours and composition and the work on the highlights is effectively done without overdoing it….nice mate!
Cheers Mark … It took quite a bit of experimenting with my existing methods to get this one to come to life finally ..
um yeah, only barely printable isn’t it….
freakin nice Neal. love the feel to it. and all the elements of the tree and waterfall work so well together!
Cheers Stephen … I had to put a fair amount of work into trying to get this image to come to life. It was always looking too flat, but I played around with some methods I use and turned things upside down and inside out and came up with a nice new little method that may work on some images as it has done on this one …
Whatever you did, great result!
Cheers Tim … I was not sure myself until I went back over the layers a second time to remember what I did with each layer LOL … Added you blog to my blog roll as well, don’t know why its taken so long …
I like it mate, looks like some blend mode trickery going on there.
Cheers Fletch … No trickery here …. Just another way of doing what I was doing before but on separate images and not layers …
Cheers Neal!
Beautiful shot! have been following your blog for a while now and you have some amazing photos!
Cheers Steven for those kind words …
So very nice neal! I really like that glow look you have to some of your images.
Thanks Ryan … it is still a work in progress. I have fined tuned it a little further with the facebook image I loaded up yesterday ( http://www.facebook.com/pages/Spool-Photography/196852073267 ), but still more tweaking to do with the method … Still not 100% on the method but its light years better than what I was using just a few months ago, I look back at that method and cringe now …
Very nice Neal ,
Love the editing on this
Cheers Kirk
Thanks for sharing this. I have subscribed to your RSS feed and am looking forward to reading more from you.
Keep up the good work.
Oooh, wow, I just love this!!!
Thanks Deina for visiting and commenting on the image, its always nice to hear from new faces … cheers Neal