Another trip to check out the effects of recent rains today. Got to do a bit of 4WD-type driving through all the water…loved it!
This photo gives you a tiny glimpse of the amount of water that is out in this area. The country-side is literally a big pond! Everything is green and just looks fabulous. The only down-side on today’s trip was the lack of sun. Clouds moved in again (and threaten yet more rain!).
This photo was processed in Lightroom. It was obviously made into grayscale, and I then played with the tone sliders and the colour sliders in the grayscale section. This may sound like a contradiction, but each colour slider (i.e. red, orange, green), still has a representative ‘grey’ value. As such, moving the sliders about changes different areas of the image depending on their original colour. For example, in today’s photo, the mound in the middle of the picture is green grass. By darkening the green slider, I got more contrast into the mound. Also, the water was rather brown, so moving the red and orange sliders, I made it darker and nicely contrasting to the top half of the image.
There are a heap more of these images in my flickr photostream if you’re interested to check it out.
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March 1, 2010 at 5:47 am
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