[Toad]

Crumbs...No sense competing with Colin's excellent scenics on this trip...

Here's a few different views:



...and



...and finally...

[peter]

soo nice..
the reflection in number 2 is soo clear..

[Petographer]

Wow! I am impressed. These look great. They look like paintings. What did you do?

[Toad]

Thanks Colin and good question - one day I will have to take notes! Seriously, I am not sure what all I did - I just mess with them until I like them.

The painterly look that you are seeing is primarily a technique that I use quite a bit on this kind of photo - I repeatedly simplify the original to a small degree with Buzz simplifier, and then sharpen the resulting photo. After you do that a few times, the photos start to look very surreal.

It also helps to start with a super fine grain film (Velvia 50). These have actually lost a lot of detail during the scanning process and of course during compression.

I think that 1 and 2 also have anistropic diffusion applied to them - maybe.

[jericho]

Thats how I do all my stuff Toad...


Standard response... "Ummmm, I wish I could remember myself".

Also a standard response... "Why is there an extra nut and bolt?" after reassembly

Great shots though!! I love the effect.

Jerry

[StudioJ]

I think you must have stopped to pick some mushrooms on the way back down Toad! These are awesome, I can't figure out what you have done to them just by looking.

The third one is intriguing it doesn't look overly edited, what was the original like? Its rather ethereal.

[Toad]

Thanks Jamie. Sorry to disappoint but the 3rd one is also heavily edited - the water in the original was dirty, and my focus wasn't everything it could be...

oh why tell you - here it is...



BTW: the kind of cool sharpening that I did to this one is to get the final was done by creating a new layer, applying the emboss filter, and then setting the blend mode to hard light - it results in pretty dramatic sharpening that looks fairly natural artifact-wise.

[StudioJ]

Interesting sharpening technique I'll have to give that one a go. I wasn't overly sure that it was water it looks very misty, great job.

[Cailean]

one day I will have to take notes! Seriously, I am not sure what all I did - I just mess with them until I like them.

Some one should do up some code that tracks the changes made to an image and send it to Adobe...

[Toad]

Actually, the history palette in PhotoShop tracks what you do to a certain extent - I think about 30 steps - but if you are messing a lot - it loses steps from the beginning - with all the cloning I did on the water in the 3rd photo to remove the white junk floating on it - my history pallette was "Clone" 30 times.

Also - once you close the photo - it's history is gone. If someone wrote such a filter or action, I would buy it.

[pappy]

These are all awesome photos Toad...

[Toad]

Thank you, Peter - Long time no see.