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With the end in mind

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Sometimes it helps to pre-visualize the photo; that’s what I did here.  I was thinking that the scene could look interesting if it was converted to black-white using an Infrared effect.  So, the photo was actually taken in the middle of the day with quite bright sunlight (though with cloud as you can see here).   I processed the original image through Silver Efex Pro 2 for the conversion and then blended back in the original colour image (effectively selectively dodge and burn).

The result is an image that looks like a dramatic moonlit night.

Moonlit, Day

These tools helped me work the magic:

Lord of the Rings mountain

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I’m working on a series of photos based on a “Lord of the Rings” kind of theme.   This one seems to fit nicely into that; the gloom of the mountain and the sense of impending disaster.   Actually, its just a volcano with some cool clouds above it but  I can imagine, right?

The photo itself is pretty much straight-out of the camera with just some minor adjustments in Photoshop CS5.  Well, when I say “out of the camera” it was a set of three exposures, processed with HDR Efex Pro :-)  But it is photo realistic; what I actually saw!

For the black and white conversion I used Nik Software’s Silver Efex Pro 2.  Version 2 is really worth the upgrade with the alibility to quickly add edge effects and treatments.

IMG2240HDR-M.jpg

These tools helped me work the magic:
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