tuesday play of the day no 14 ...

ok, so i had to photoshop my own photo this week, had a few days of traveling so i had a few days to think about it. came up with nothing. i like the original photo a lot, but then the more i looked at it, the more i thought it looked half like spring and half like fall. i think it's due to the brightness of the green grass and the blue/semi-paleness of the sky. i wanted more of a fall look, here's my semi-best attempt.

- hue/saturation adjustment to remove some of the green and add red/brown flavors
- warming filter (no85)
- channel mixer to make the sky a little more evening grey/pink/blue



the original can be seen a few posts down labeled "fall weddings in new england ..."

tuesday play of the day no 13 ...

i'm not sure what i was thinking but when i saw this picture, i went with this approach. don't ask, i just went with it plus i wanted to be bright and cheery since lan's was scccccccccaaaary ;)

- cropped the bottom off
- create new duplicate layer to set the planks to yellow (haha!)
- create new duplicate layer to get the trees a lot greener
- create new duplicate layer to make the hand rails golden instead of brown
- sharpen x2
- flattened



here's the straight out of the camera:

tuesday play of the day no 11 ...

i actually have a few thoughts for this week's what's your play, but this was the first that came to mind. just a simple de-saturation and then a hue layer mask to remove the b&w and bring up the pink in the shoes, very slight bit of blur to mute out a bit of stroller too. and of course i cropped it a bit.



here's the original shot of the week ...

tuesday play of the day no 10 ...

tuesday play of the week ... mask layers ... (click on picture for 1024pix)



- color balance mask to bump up red rust colors
- selective color mask to add depth in green
- selective color mask to brighten the blue flowers
- layer mask to bump up contrast across the board, remove excess contrast from box
- layer mask to add snap to green grass
- layer mask to darken all the blacks
- sharpened

here's the original: