The other image
Same place (Richardson Nature Center) but a different exposure and a different crop. The interesting thing here is the over the top toning. I like the very warm highlights and very cold shadows. I’ve also played with Neat Image to clean up the water. Getting smooth water is tougher than one would think. In part it is because I shoot at too high a shutter speed and I’m never around when the water is really calm. Basically you make a layer, hit the layer with enough neat image to kill everything and back it off until you get all the details you feel are important. Then go through with a layer mask to bring any important details back.
I used to do a lot of images that were noise reduced into a dreamy smoothness. As my cameras have gotten better I’ve gotten away from that. Trying to put it back into the arsenal.
The over the top split toning (I swear the shadows are around 70% saturation.) is probably something I’ll get tired of pretty quick. Although I did save this as a preset. (At a more sane saturation level.)
