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    Creative post processing - before & after

    Hi All,

    I thought it might be fun to start a thread on creatively post-processed images, showing the before and after versions, and ideally the processing steps to go from the original to the final image.

    I'll start off with a shot of Boston Light, on Little Brewster Island in the Boston harbor. The only way to get to shots of the lighthouse in 'good light' (sunrise, sunset) is to have your own boat; the tours go out in the middle of the day. This shot was taken from the tour boat on the return trip, at about 4pm on a hot summer day (~90 °F) with a hazy sky - not particularly good light. Taken with the 1D X, EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6L IS USM @ 300mm.



    For processing, I did the following:


    • Opened image in Photoshop CS6
    • Duplicated image in new layer
    • Filter Gallery > Glowing Edges (width 5, brightness 10, smoothness 6)
    • Blended layer as Vivid Light (100% opacity, 50% fill)
    • Magic wand selection of sky (tolerance = 20, anti-alias and contiguous)
    • Filter menu > Blur > Gaussian blur (radius = 20.0)
    • Cropped image (remove about half of water at bottom and and a bit of sky at top)
    • Saved as JPG
    • Opened image in LensFlares app for Mac OS X
    • Added Polaris flare (decrease brightness by ~50%, increase scale by ~50% and adjust rotation)
    • Added Gamma Rays flare (decrease brightness by ~80%, adjust aspect ratio ~50% rightward)
    • Saved as JPG




    Here's the result:



    Thanks for looking...and thanks in advance to anyone willing to share!

    --John
    Last edited by neuroanatomist; 09-19-2013 at 02:52 PM.

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