"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks."
~John Muir
I just kinda realized that I don’t talk much about the actual process I use on my pictures. Seeing as flickr is a photography sharing website, I will try to give a bit more insight moving forward. First, the shot though!
This is a path that is between the old gym and the Campus Center, or student union, and that is the library on the right side of the screen. I think I really took for granted how incredible the fall can be at Allegheny, and I’m glad that I was able to go back and appreciate it more this time around!
Now the shot. This is a 7 RAW exposure HDR that I processed in HDR Efex. Appropriately enough, the preset I started with on this shot was "End of the Road". I added a bit more Structure and compressed the tones more as well as lowered the saturation. The HDR Effect used here is called "Soft" and I had that set to 40. I kicked it over to CS5 where adjustments wer made to the reds for the leaves and the blues for sky. Added a Curves adjustment layer as well as a shadow adjustments layer. And here it is!
If you havea second, it may be worth a look on black! Just hit "L"!
I hope that you all have a great second half to the week!
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Posted by Dave DiCello on 2010-10-27 10:39:59
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