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This started out as a spiral decoration at a circus exhibit. I used a Photoshop CS3 plug-in filter to create a kaleidoscope version and also fiddled with gradient layers to develop the color combination.
Photos taken at Sherrard Point on Larch Mt. , Oregon. July 2008.
Upper left: Single exposure.
Upper right: HDR composite of three exposures.
Lower left: Single exposure, cropped.
Lower right: Single exposure, cropped, split tone colors added, blue highlights, brown shadows
Auto levels in PSE actually did a pretty darned good job. It makes adjustments on each of the red, green, and blue color channels and gives you a mild blue in the sky and a reasonable amont of contrast. You can tweak things further by sliding the luminance levels adjustment (all channels) by adjusting the shadow slider up to about 30 to further improve contrast. What I did in this actual photo though was use the Nik Color Efex Pro 3.0 color grad filter effect to give a nice blue sky. I rotated the grad effect so that it was level with the landscape, and then set it to lessen the effect as it got closer to the landscape edge for a nice halo effect. What I also did in the lunch discussion was to use the smart selector or magic wand tool to select only the sky portion, create a new fill layer, and then filled it with an opaque sky blue. There's lots of ways to do the same or similar things. If you wanted to make a big print of this, you could spend another hour or so cloning out the remaining glare from the gondola windows. In this example after everything was done I still wanted to push the highlights a bit more, so a final levels adjustment pulling the highlight slider back from 255 to about 220-230 really livened things up.
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I took this photo during a morning walk around The Bristol, an apartment complex in Greenville, SC. There was a lot of bamboo around the complex, held back by a black chainlink fence.