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JACK LARSON PHOTOGRAPHY
This photograph had major work done to it. It began with this gorgeous huge tree decked out with fall color against a deep blue sky. However, it had this wonderful Pampas Grass next to it. It was the grass that fascinated me. So I cropped the image. Then I did a series of layers blurring and sharpening, plus a curves layer and a black stroke border. The end result is what you see. (I really owe this to recently reading Freeman Patterson's "Photography and the Art of Seeing." My goal is to get out of some of the boxes in which I have functioned.)
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YESTERDAY'S PHOTOGRAPH was a 5 shot bracket which I combined in
Photomatix. The color work was done in Lightroom and Photoshop.
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ONE MORE THING - LR 3 beta is considerably faster than LR 2.
@PATRICK: Merci
@lydia: Merci.
@Anina: Thank you.
@Dulcie: Thanks.
@P J W Miller: Thanks.
@Irene: Merci
@Elena Kotrotsou: Thank you.
@Yvonne Simons: Merci.
@MrsAmber: Thanks, Kate.
@Mathilde Collot: Merci, dear Mathilde.
@Judy: Thanks.
@bekkah: Thanks, Bekkah.
@xavier cardell: Gracias.
@Don: Thanks, Don.
@dj.tigersprout: Thanks, dj.
@MARIANA: Thanks, Mariana.
@Luca Bobbiesi: Thank you.
@Steven: Thanks, Steven. The selective focus is all in the processing.
@Steve Rice: Thanks.
@Viewfinder: Thanks.
@Tracy: Thanks, Tracy.
@Lorraine: Many thanks.
@Ana Lúcia: Thank you.
@Bill: Thanks. Will do so on Gallant. OK, have done it. No price break on Amazon.
@Veronelle: Merci.
@Lyl and Roll: Merci.
@TammyWarren-CRicket: Many thanks.
@ninni: Thank you.
@Michael: Thank you.
@Laurie: You're probably right, but I wouldn't want to reduce it too much; I want the Pampas Grass to pop.
@Theys: Merci.
@Helder: Thank you.
@Monique: Yeah; I agree. Actually it looks much better as a print than on the computer. The print seems to create some of that feather.
@Barbara: Thanks, Barb.
@Mahboubeh: Thank you.
@ghetu: The original photo was of a large oak tree with the Pampas Grass to the side. I first cropped it to make the grass much larger. Then I did my color work in Lightroom. After that I sent it to Photoshop where I applied a Gaussian Blur to the entire image. I added a mask and eliminated the blur of the grass. There was some more stuff done but those were the essentials. If I had it to do over again, I would apply less of a blur and would feather the blur. At the time, it was all an experiment.
@ghetu: Thank you. Good luck. Photoshop has a very steep learning curve.