The resulting images looked great on my monitor and didn't turn out too shabby on 8x10 prints either, while for web they were ideal... However.... when I started looking at selling my images via microstock I got a whole lot of rejections (over 90%) due to over sharpening and over filtering. Only the best images made it through and even those I would never submit now days.
Thus the learning process commenced.
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( 2.9 / 2013 )
I've had several people ask me , how I achieved a particular
effect in my Ulladulla Lighthouse image (see the original here) and despite a few guesses
nobody has as yet got it right :)
It's not a complex technique and I got this result through a process of experimentation and trail and error and have since made a series of images using this, titled Bluescape.
Firstly I must dispel any notion that this particular image is a HDR as
despite the fact that I am quite fond of using HDR for landscapes, I
don't always depend on it for an effect and neither use it in this
particular technique.
Sometimes you can spend hours trying different combinations to achieve the desired result. Also for it to
work you should have - a well exposed image with small dynamic range ie
low contrast levels to begin with.
If you wish to try this yourself, more or less follow these steps:
2 - Run it through the Solarize filter
3 - Remove all the colors, turning into B&W. (Sometimes I use
desaturated here but other times as in this case it was a straight turn to
B&W filter)
4 - Lighten the image by a factor of 20-40 (this depends on the initial
exposure, density and dynamic range of the shot)
5 - Add Cyan and Blue
6 - Adjust as appropriate with desaturate, brightness and contrast
controls.
7 - Check for noise and if needed run through a noise filter.1 - Darken the image by factor of 20
Have fun and be sure to show me the end results:)
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