Oak leaves, Auburn, CA – Answer revealed

by Sherri on November 1, 2007

oak-leaves.jpg Photo - Digital art photo created from an original photograph Last week, I posted the photo above and had viewers guess how it was created. Thank you, Richard Wong, for your participation in the guessing game. Thanks also to all of you that studied it, but decided not to participate. Here is how it was shot It had been raining for several hours. After it stopped, I went out to the deck to dump the water out of the chairs. You know, the really popular outdoor folding chairs almost everyone has? Fortunately, I looked at the puddle that had collected in the chair before dumping it. Floating in the puddle were these beautiful Oak leaves and the lighting was just right. I went and got my camera and took a series of shots before dumping the chair.   This is how it was processed in PhotoShop  Step 1 - Image Adjustment Step 2 - Selected Hue/Saturation Step 3 - In edit, changed the setting from master to blue.  Step 4 - Gave it a +70 in saturation.  Step 5 - Selected Filters Step 6 - Selected Poster Edges Now that the cat is out of the bag, how many of you had it right all along?
1 Richard Wong November 1, 2007 at 11:31 am

Wow. WEll that is an innovative technique you came up with Sherri. I might just have to lift that for myself. Not sure what it would work with of mine though. The look kind of reminds me of the Frank Miller-style of comic books. I think that is his name anyway.

2 Sherri Meyer November 1, 2007 at 12:03 pm

I’m sure with all of the images you have on file, you will come up with one that you can experiment on!

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