In the Shadow of the Light

[bulldurham]

 

[jcdeboever]

Excellent, dreamy image.

 

[Didereaux]

That's an interesting shot...and that is a good thing!

 

[SquarePeg]

Really cool shot.

 

[katsrevenge]

Love it.

How did you do it? (I have to ask, LOL)

 

[zombiesniper]

Very nice. I almost expect to see a ghost on the balcony.

 

[bulldurham]

Love it.

How did you do it? (I have to ask, LOL)

If I would have had my tripod with me, it would have been significantly easier; I made two exposures of the same shot; one with trees in focus, one with windows in focus and then in PS, I made the windows exposure 1/2 sharp doing a series of blend layers where I took out some sharpness in the windows with channel luminosity masks. Then, I brought one midtone layer into NIK Silver Efex Pro with a Smooth High Structure Smooth with a mid-value selenium toner. One last blend using a high contrast blue filter on the trees and voila, an image I saw when I made the initial exposures came to light.

 

[LarryLomona]

Excellent !

 

[Tim Tucker]

That's cool and very effective.