"Does the walker choose the path or the path choose the walker?"
~Garth Nix
Why not another path shot! This is a picture from right in front of the Newton Observatory which is now the security building at Allegheny. I liked what was going on in this scene. Bright blue sky, big shadow, a lot of colors and a really cool old building!
I really liked the quote too because it raises the question of if we are controlled by fate or do we make our own destiny? Personally I think that every decision we make determines who we are and what we become and that everyday we have a blank slate on which to write our future. Since this is a shot of two paths, I thought it fit!
A bit more philosophical than normal, I know! If you’d like to weigh in, you are more than welcome!
New set! A collections of all the Paths I’ve Walked.
This is a 7 RAW exposure HDR that I processed in HDR Efex. Again, I started with the preset "End of the Road". I added a bit more Structure and compressed the tones more as well as lowered the saturation. I bumped up both the White abd Black levels to add a bit more contrast. The HDR Effect used here is called "Soft" and I had that set to 60. I kicked it over to CS5 where adjustments were made to the green grass and the blue sky. I added a level of color too for the red tree. Added a Curves adjustment layer as well as a shadow adjustments layer. Added a layer mask to get rid of a slight halo over the trees.
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Posted by Dave DiCello on 2010-10-28 00:13:59
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