Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Don’t forget to look down

Farewell Summer

When reading Bryan Peterson’s books, I’m always amazed at how he takes things we always see in everyday life and turns them in to very cool photos. I was out recently walking through the park with my kids near sunset when I spotted this great contrast of colors on the ground with a nice orange leaf and the bright green grass. I was actually walking to another spot to take a picture of the kids, but I stopped to look down and was rewarded with this shot which I like quite a bit.

This shot was taken with a Canon 5D Mark II using a 135mm f/2 lens (courtesy of ZipLens.com) set to f/2.0 and 1/800 sec set at ISO 100. The bokeh is all natural, even though I’ve had a few people who thought I photoshopped it. What I did do in Photoshop is use Nik Software Color Efex 3.0 Complete’s Skylight Filter and then Sharpener Pro 3.0 for the final touch. I also processed an alternate version using Viveza to remove a portion the green color from the grass in about a minute.

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