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?