Contours

18Jul10

There are bits of rock sculpted like waves or the contours of hills along the shoreline of Eriskay.  Some look as though you are looking down from a plane at a landscape below.  This one was a rather simpler display of form and texture, but could almost be a long distance shot of some hills.

The first thing I did with this was to get improve the colour version, which I started off with by using the auto curves separate function.  This punched up the colours a lot and added a fair bit of contrast, which was further increased by using Definition and a s-curve.  The colours were deepened slightly using Vibrancy.  This provided the base for the B&W conversion with a red filter preset.  Contrast was further increased using the Intensify Contrast and Definition quick brushes – the aim was bring out the texture of the granite.  A little dodging of some highlighted areas added to the 3-D feel.

Filed under: Aperture, B&W, Landscape, Macro   |  1 Comment
Tags: Aperture, B&W, GF-1, Landscape, Macro, Texture