Dennis Bishop
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Last year there were several storms which generated wind waves that resulted in damage along the southern shore of Lake Erie. The waves experienced on September 19, when this photo was taken, were far from the worst. In fact, this isn't the largest one I saw hit the dock that day.
Nikon D3s, ISO 6400, f/11, 1/8000 second, zoom lens at 35 mm
processing highlights
- Adobe Photoshop CC 2015 (Windows)
Nikon D3s, ISO 6400, f/11, 1/8000 second, zoom lens at 35 mm
processing highlights
- cropped left, right, and top
- The gulls, which had been there about three weeks before were added. They played a larger role in an earlier image but were flying in the opposite direction and at a different angle.
- Topaz Simplify -- saved watercolor preset, partially masked from the crashed wave and spray
- Alien Skin Snap Art -- saved watercolor wash preset, Hard Light blend mode
- This is where I'd normally indicate I'd used three Fractalius layers. Not this time and maybe never again. Instead, it was three saved black-on-white presets from Topaz Glow in Multiply, Divide, and Multiply blend modes, respectively. I haven't yet been able to duplicate with Glow what I get with the early version of Fractalius I have to use for my saved presets, but it was close enough. (I processed images done with Fractalius and with Glow for comparison.) With Glow, I don't have to make a duplicate image, convert it to 8-bit mode (necessary with the early version of Fractalius), and move the processed layers back to the 16-bit version. In addition, the layers are generated much faster in Glow.
- Simplify and Snap Art -- saved black-on-white edges presets, two layers of each, Multiply and Divide with inverse masks
- Photo Filter adjustment layer -- Warming 85
- Nik Color Efex -- Tonal Contrast masked
- Alien Skin Exposure -- white vignette
- Photo Filter adjustment layer -- Warming 81
- Nik Color Efex -- Darken/Lighten Center (actually a lightening of the center and no change to the "border luminosity"