Sea Weed at Low Tide

[sleist]

I know this type of editing is over the top for some folks, but I like the way this turned out.
Comments welcome as always.

 

[DorkSterr]

Damn that looks like an oil painting. Great colours.

 

[Dominantly]

It's fun, and I think it has more wall hanging potential than a similiar shot of rocks will.

 

[tirediron]

I think this works well.

 

[Trever1t]

I like the angle of the dangle...the patterns the weed makes on the rocks. Nice!

 

[Patriot]

This is picture frame worthy

 

[Frequency]

Excellent!!!

 

[pgriz]

Lots of detail to capture the eye, good colour, nice texture. By processing, I assume you balanced the tones as I would guess the original scene was much more contrasty? Would love to see the original and the difference between that and what you have here. I agree it is suitable to be displayed large on a wall...

 

[Dagwood56]

This is great! I love the angles, the textures, colors....everything works so well together. Great job! :thumbup:

 

[Buckster]

Very interesting and nice, to my eyes. Reminds me a bit of the Fractalius plugin. Is that what you used?

 

[rvilela]

Nice frame, loved the colours and textures. Very nice shot.

 

[sleist]

Wow. Thanks folks.

I used a few plugins for this, but the main effect is from OilPaint in Pixel Bender.

Processing was more or less:

Capture NX2 RAW to TIFF with some exposure, WB, lens correction, and tone curve edits.
TIFF edited in CS 5.1 using Nik Color Efex 4 Pro and Pixel Bender.
Saturation, vibrance, and blackpoint adjustment in CS5.1.
Final sharpening using unsharpmask for local contrast enhancement.

OOC raw looked like this:

Thanks again for the comments.

 

[Joel_W]

Usually, I don't even comment on this type of photograph, but in this case it works, and is pleasing to one's eye. Nicely done.

 

[sleist]

Usually, I don't even comment on this type of photograph, but in this case it works, and is pleasing to one's eye. Nicely done.

I feel the same way. I think it's very difficult to know when to do something like this with a shot. It's also very difficult to know when to stop once you've started. Many more dead ends than enhancements with some of these plugins.
I also feel like at some point you cross a line out of photography into illustration or something.