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Our first catch in Ames, IA. Traffic was light because of the city celebration in Boone. They were running a short passenger train west over the Kate Shelley High Bridge to Ogden and back every hour for UP employees. (More on this train later.)
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I wanted to create a painted effect so here's what I did.
Did a subtle crop. Ran a levels adj. layer, layered on several textures and various blend mode layers. I've found that doing this helps create a painted effect. Removed some texture from the flowers. Cooled down the colour slightly. Added a slight blur layer and a soft light layer. Upped the brightness a bit and added white and black colour fill layers (set on screen and multiply) and masked as necessary. Saturated the red and green a touch and sharpened.
Textures courtesy of Jessica Drossin and French Kiss textures, also used 2 of my own textures.
Editing in the colors of shot can give DRASTIC results. When I finished this one, I shocked myself at what I had created. She looks older to me in this.
Converted to b&w and then worked with the split tone controls in Lightroom 2.
Strobist: had the sb600 just above head height and to the right of the shot. She was standing mostly in the shade.