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Jerimias electrifying light rays...

Really should be viewed on black, the details are amazing!

 

We make pictures. At the end of the day, we create something potentially significant that did not exist at the beginning of the day. We go forward, despite the uncertainty. Because this is an act of love and passion, which defies reason and prudence.

- Joe McNally -

 

Music:

Ottmar Liebert – Samba Pa Ti

 

Here are the prerequisite (I hate that word…but I might as well disclose that without them it would be next to impossible) to be able to do this image. You have be able to do HDR and able to use mask feature in Photoshop. Also, have the Photoshop plug-in Fractalius and just an FYI... I am not getting a penny for promoting the fractalius plugin. So the promoting part would not be a prerequisite! LOL!!!

 

Processing:

 

1. Usage of 2 HDR sets. One for water and sky & the second one for the building.

2.Blend in building via PS layer mask to get the right textures and to avoid halos

3.Amp up the green lawn in PS via duplicate layer and then in new layer Image/Adjustments/Hue Saturation. Select green and then move slide bar to get the right green. This will increase all green in the image. We do not want that, we only care about the lawn. Create layer mask and draw out the amped up green. This technique is sometimes referenced as Scott Kelby’s “painting with light”. There was no need to monkey around with blue, orange and red. Otherwise it would been done here

4.Run neat image (noise removal)

5.Duplicate the work layer (the one that you working on).

6.Apply Fractalius after your choice

7.Apply the Fractalius selectively through layer mask (fractalius in underneath the layer that you are working on). This technique is done just like Scott Kelby’s “painting with light”. My choice was to apply the Fractalius here where ever the sun struck since the thought behind the project was “electrifying rays”. So… I am going to nickname this simple technique “Jerimias electrifying light rays”. I doubt Scott cares! LOL!!

8.Merge down

9.Apply border and signature

10.Merge down

11.Save the file

 

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Uploaded on November 19, 2009
Taken on January 24, 2009