Sustained
by lunachicken

Comment by WriteHeart:
I like this one too. Nice composition and I think the softness is great.

Spire
by lunachicken

Comment by WriteHeart:
Cool, but on this one, I like the B&W one better.

Top of the world 2
by lunachicken

Comment by WriteHeart:
This one's ok, but I like the colored one better.

Top of the world
by lunachicken

Comment by WriteHeart:
Intense blue sky. It really makes the snowy mountains pop. Very nice.

Spring
by lunachicken

Comment by WriteHeart:
Don't you love Colorado weather? Great photo ops. I love storms. This is a nice capture. I love the darkness to it.

Spire
by lunachicken

Comment by WriteHeart:
Wow!! You should be in the 30 day black and white side challenge. This is amazing! Really nice capture and processing.

Hoody
by lunachicken

Comment by WriteHeart:
What a cutie! Love his expression.

Black And White Warbler
by lunachicken

Comment by mia67:
Such a great image, colors are beautiful, and love all those lines.
Very good composition too.

The Great Stupa of Dharmakaya
by lunachicken

Comment by lunachicken:


Here is the before :p Kind of a lot went into it. RAW conversion twice, once to get the sky and trees better, and once for the Stupa and foreground. Horizon line fix, and crop. Separated the sky, trees, stupa and foreground into different layers and did brightness/contrast, hue/saturation, selective color (most important /nod), and shadow/highlight (which is where the superimposed look came from) on each layer independently . Duplicated the tree and foreground layers and applied a slight gaussian blur at like 15% opacity. Added a layer of black around the outer edge on soft light mode at like 30% for the vignette. Did Luko USM (my new favorite tool) to sharpen. Cloned a couple of people out. Save for web.

The place is the Shambhala Mountain Center, a Buddhist retreat about a half hour outside Ft. Collins, Co. Definitely a cool place to take pictures /nod, several of my current favorites in my portfolio are from that trip.

Message edited by author 2007-09-09 13:51:58.

Buddha
by lunachicken

Comment by Luguer:
This one is very appealing to me. Love the tones and the muted colors. Very well done. Grats