Blanket of Snow by photosynthesis
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We got our first really substantial & prolonged snowfall yesterday morning - about a foot or so - & it covered us with a beautiful blanket of snow. This was taken from my front porch early in the morning, but later we took a long walk up the road & I took many more photos, the best of which I will post in the next few days.
Obviously, this was postworked substantially. Occasionally, I will take photos in the snow that don't require much postwork, but usually I find that the extreme whiteness tends to make the images too bright & often washes them out - so they need a good amount of postwork to turn them into something that I'm satisfied with. In addition to the Photoshop tools I use frequently (brightness, contrast, vibrance, saturation & the sharpen filters), I used the grain filter for the first time in this image.
Photoshop is an incredible creative tool with so many deep features that I feel about it the same way scientists describe our use of our own brains - that I will only ever use a small fraction of it's potential. But that seems to be enough to get by.
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Comments (13)
Fidelity2
P-E-R-F-E-C-T. 5+! I thank you a lot for this one.
bmac62
Smashing contrasts. Takes the image out of the nice but ordinary category into the something special realm. Well done and I feel the same way you do about PhotoShop...so many creative features.
sharky_
A Heavy Blanket... Beautiful. Aloha
West_coaster07
Wonderful work... heavy snow fall out here in the Kootenays of BC as well!!!
costapanos
Wonderful capture and great use of PS and its filters.
ia-du-lin
beautiful winter scene, nice capture
sandra46
MARVELOUS COMPOSITION! GREAT SHOT!
alanwilliams
a beautiful portrait that sings of winter
thecytron
A very good monochrome photograph!
angora
beau-ti-ful!!! great PW!!!
jayfar
This is a very nice shot.
mariogiannecchini
Wonderful capture !Very beautiful picture !
Xfitz
Couldn't agree more regarding photoshop. I've never used the grain filter but have had some luck creating similar effects with the find edges filter. Very impact full photograph.