Lyle Nel
Oak in the sky
This was taken at a milk farm late in the afternoon . It is a few leaves of a young oak tree .
The difference you see in the blue and white is as a result dusty air before sunset .
I had to do a bit of post-processing with this one .
To make this a 16:9 picture a had to fill a gradient on the right side to fit the progression of white to blue . This was very difficult because I do not know an effective way of doing this besides trail and error , but finally I got it to fit . If somebody knows of a tutorial for gimp on how to do this in a faster and more effective manner it would be great if you could point me towards it.
After the gradient has been done I saturated the colours and increased the highlights with a colour curve remapping .
Oak in the sky
This was taken at a milk farm late in the afternoon . It is a few leaves of a young oak tree .
The difference you see in the blue and white is as a result dusty air before sunset .
I had to do a bit of post-processing with this one .
To make this a 16:9 picture a had to fill a gradient on the right side to fit the progression of white to blue . This was very difficult because I do not know an effective way of doing this besides trail and error , but finally I got it to fit . If somebody knows of a tutorial for gimp on how to do this in a faster and more effective manner it would be great if you could point me towards it.
After the gradient has been done I saturated the colours and increased the highlights with a colour curve remapping .