A Very Wiltshire Riverscape...

Those of us of a certain age and photographic history may well recall that very rare phenonema known as Colour Infra-red film, which I think was a slide film made by 3M - ?

Now, I've successfully turned my recent digital colour landscapes into effective 'infra-red "effect" black & whites' but not attempted it in colour. After seeing the lady with the paintings last week, who heightened and hyped-up her colours, I've tried that, here, too.

There was a snippet of sunshine earlier this morning and I had been alongside this stretch of river before. This time, the two trees looked straight out of a picture book and the two Highland cattle enjoying their most luxurious 'field' clinched it.

A polariser on the Nikkor 17-35mm f2.8 (on FX D700) helped partially with the colour saturation but please don't think I just whacked up the overall saturation to level 11 - it was contrasty for a start with the underside of the tree in deep shadow. A lot of lassooing areas and subtly lightening/darkening/contrast/warmth etc went on since.

The sun was probably not high enough to really give the colour I wanted and the trees not autumnal enough. I also wanted an artwork, rather than a photographic portrait. I still have a copy of the original TIFF file to produce that, as well as a black & white, perhaps.