A walk in the Forest

Beautiful day to get out and take some snaps in the forest primeval...

Good Friday everyone. The weekend is here.


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Caution Tech Stuff:

I was out in the woods yesterday and shot this background scene with my Canon G10. When I got up this morning I looked at the shot and thought boring. Then I zoomed in and saw today's blip.

I went back to the same spot but this time with my big camera and tripod and shot it correctly. I then shot myself in front of a white screen. Removing me from the background was a lot more work than normal as I had all these straps and poles to contend with.

I wanted to set a nice color mood so I brought the raw background and myself into the composite as Smart Objects. This allows me to return to the RAW image processor to make non-destructive image adjustments. You can change things all you want in saturation, color balance and brightness and never do any harm to the original image. I'm a fan of non-destructive editing.

Finally I added a glow layer to the background followed by a crop and Friday's blip is in the can. Enjoy...