[Zig]

Forgive my temporary absence btw.
As some of you know, I was labouring away in PS 5LE until a kind soul helped me upgrade tp 6.
Took this today, 50mm at f16; left it as RAW in Raw Shooter Essentials then as 16 bit Tiff, then dodged and burned(what fun to have brushes of different sizes!) in the resultant JPEG.
Aimed for a faux IR look: added diffusion as another layer with about 40 pc transparency before flattening. Hope U like(Irma, you there!?)

[Irma]

I love this one, Zig I like your conversion a lot!! The colors are very special...

Was it sunny? Did you use your pol filter? the sky looks great!!

I like very much the composition and so many details... those lines in the snow? work very nicely to go up and down in your picture... What a beautiful place!! Those two little windows are lovely...

Is it snowing already in your place?

They say it will be snowing here this weekend ... I am a little affraid because I have never driven in the snow... but I will do it, however... I won't stay home missing the possibility of taking nice snowed landscape pictures...

Nice to seeing you back, Zig....

[Zig]

Bless ya Irma, thank you.
Yes, I used a polariser to bring out the sky; aha! that's no snow, that is grass: it was well-lit by the sun; I was able to use the "dodge" tool to lighten it , as with "real" infra-red, green vegetation is very reflective and appears almost white in monochrome.
Have a good time in the snow...perhaps set exposure compensation to +1.5 so as to keep the whites white(though you may know this already)

[Petographer]

Kinda cool. It does look like snow with ski trails.

[matthew]

it was well-lit by the sun; I was able to use the "dodge" tool to lighten it , as with "real" infra-red, green vegetation is very reflective and appears almost white in monochrome.

That faux-IR look was just dodging? Very nice. I thought maybe some fancy filter work and colour inversions were being used.

I like the buildings; almost painfully bright to look at but not blown out. Excellent control.

[Toad]

I like the goreground in this particulalrly - rather solarized.



....err foreground - still thinking about Rufus' graveyard photo I suppose.

[Zig]

Thank you chaps!
Toad, I assure you mate, if you met the good folks of Gloucestershire you would generally be right with the first spelling!