Brasenose College (Orton Effect)

After spotting a reference to this technique on someone else's photostream (thank you eatzycath!), I thought I would try it out. A quick google search found me this procedure for Photoshop. I basically just followed the steps, but the final result was a bit to dreamy for my liking so I backed off the blur by reducing the layer opacity to about 65%.

 

I kinda like this - its got the dreamy quality of HDR, without the HDR "ugh" factor.

 

The base image used for this picture is here.

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Uploaded on November 7, 2009
Taken on August 8, 2009