Through the Fog

[RhondaH]

Hello Christina!
I love your #1B - I couldn't imagine what was being suggested by adding canvas to the right side, but the result is lovely!!
I also love #2 swan. Your "other" addition is mysterious and quiet. I like images like that.

[AndrewMcD]

Other... After viewing Jack's link for Japanese watercolours. I tried to create a water colour from an image photographed in dense fog that was headed to the trash (hard to see anything). In Lightroom I played with the saturation and luminosity of the reds,greens, and oranges. Then in Photoshop I added a soft light layer and painted some of the trees (barely visible with a brush set at 10% opacity) Something to think about for foggy images even if I've botched this one badly.

Christina,
I find this a very interesting image. Can you explain what you mean when you say you "painted some of the trees"? I'm familiar with using adjustment tools in Lightroom but have no Photoshop experience.
With regard to WB adjustments; is that a matter of using a slider to adjust the color temp or is there some other technique involved?
Thank you,
Andrew

[Brownbear]

Hi Rhonda,

Thank you. I'm surprised and encourage by image #1... it is the fog that makes everything special (except for eagles) A couple of years ago I wouldn't have known what expanding the canvas was either. It was fairly easy with this image because the background was so stark.

Hello Christina!
I love your #1B - I couldn't imagine what was being suggested by adding canvas to the right side, but the result is lovely!!
I also love #2 swan. Your "other" addition is mysterious and quiet. I like images like that.

[Brownbear]

Christina,
I find this a very interesting image. Can you explain what you mean when you say you "painted some of the trees"? I'm familiar with using adjustment tools in Lightroom but have no Photoshop experience.
With regard to WB adjustments; is that a matter of using a slider to adjust the color temp or is there some other technique involved?

Thank you,
Andrew

Hi Andrew,

After processing in LR I opened the file in Photoshop. I added a duplicate layer which I set to soft light 50% grey. Then I set my brush to 10% opacity 25% flow, with the brush set to white (emphasize) and painted the tree and its reflection on the far right hand corner, and the lone weeping willow tree at the end of the bank. This is like burning and dodging except because it is done on a layer it is non destructive. The soft light affects only certain tones (lighter or darker)... Here is a link which explains the process far better than I can

http://www.ronbigelow.com/articles/blend3/blend3.htm

Here is the file processed in LR before I dodged





In LR I played with the saturation and luminosity of the reds,oranges, greens and yellows. For the WB I just move the temperature slider to what I thought made for artistic colours (Japanese water colour style re Jack's link)

Here are the colour plays in LR



It is interesting and I think I will play with a few foggy images to see what they look like.

[AndrewMcD]

Thank you very much for the in depth explanation. I hope to start learning to be a bit more sophisticated in my post processing and learning the possibilities through explanations such as yours is a good start.

[Wavelength]

First of set I and last one of set II are examples of creative excellence...truly magnificent!!!

Regards

[Brownbear]

Thank you for sharing. It means a lot to me that I might be helpful to others, simply because I've learned so much from the members of this forum.

Thank you very much for the in depth explanation. I hope to start learning to be a bit more sophisticated in my post processing and learning the possibilities through explanations such as yours is a good start.

[Brownbear]

Thank you. Truly appreciated.

First of set I and last one of set II are examples of creative excellence...truly magnificent!!!

Regards