What?
Sitting pretty, flying high...
This is just a spontaneous fun shot, duly over-processed for Sliders Sunday. It was one of those "Should I take the camera out or not?" moments where I also briefly worried that I might look silly photographing random doves (it was a crowded place, after all). Still, I also thought they looked funny and cute sitting up there on the roof of a subway station entrance, lined up "like organ pipes", as we say in German. I also didn't notice the plane when I photographed the doves but it was a nice surprise when I loaded the image into Lightroom (only to forget about it for another year), and it's a nice extra.
I enhanced the plane in LR with an extra mask and then went into Color Efex. I used the following filters: Brilliance and Warmth and Skylight to bring back the warmth of that sunny June day (the SOOC Raw file was a little on the cool side), Detail Extractor, Reflector Efex ("Soft Gold") to brighten the lower part of the image, and Tonal Contrast (setting "fine", opacity 35 %). I also blew the image up in Topaz Gigapixel because quite a bit of the image was lost by cropping (of the distracting lower part because I couldn't zoom in any further on the doves) and straightening (because I had to shoot straight up).
HSS, Everyone!
What?
Sitting pretty, flying high...
This is just a spontaneous fun shot, duly over-processed for Sliders Sunday. It was one of those "Should I take the camera out or not?" moments where I also briefly worried that I might look silly photographing random doves (it was a crowded place, after all). Still, I also thought they looked funny and cute sitting up there on the roof of a subway station entrance, lined up "like organ pipes", as we say in German. I also didn't notice the plane when I photographed the doves but it was a nice surprise when I loaded the image into Lightroom (only to forget about it for another year), and it's a nice extra.
I enhanced the plane in LR with an extra mask and then went into Color Efex. I used the following filters: Brilliance and Warmth and Skylight to bring back the warmth of that sunny June day (the SOOC Raw file was a little on the cool side), Detail Extractor, Reflector Efex ("Soft Gold") to brighten the lower part of the image, and Tonal Contrast (setting "fine", opacity 35 %). I also blew the image up in Topaz Gigapixel because quite a bit of the image was lost by cropping (of the distracting lower part because I couldn't zoom in any further on the doves) and straightening (because I had to shoot straight up).
HSS, Everyone!