Thursday, January 29, 2009

Maas Nursery - Rock Pots

Continuing with the shots from this past Sunday's outing to Maas Nursery in Seabrook, Texas.

Title: "Maas Rock Pots"


Camera / Lens: Canon 40D / Canon 17-55mm f/2.8 zoom
Post-processing: Photomatix HDR from three handheld exposures (-2, 0, +2) > Photoshop CS3 > Curves Adjustment Layer for overall contrast enhancement > Merge Visible to New Layer > Topaz Adjust plugin "Spicify" preset > Duplicate Layer > High Pass Sharpening > Curves Adjustment Layer #2 for overall contrast enhancement > Levels Adjustment Layer to set Black and Grey points > Merge Visible to New Layer > Distort Lens Correction Vignette

2 comments:

Larry J. Patrick said...

I really like how you have brought the textures out. This would make a good semi-abstract in which you got in very close and showed only the top third of the near ones and whatever of the ones in the back.

Something to think about for your next 10 trips over there!

Barry Armer said...

Thanks for your comments Patrick!

I acutually did try a shot like you're describing but it didn't turn out! Like you said, something to try next time! :-)

Cheers!
Barry