Found the remains of a giant Western Red Cedar on the trail from Lake Crescent up to Marymere falls. This is a difficult shot, and I have been struggling to make it work. The challenge is to separate the main object - the cedar trunk - from the background. I used masks to help lighten and increase the saturation of the red trunk, and inverted masks to darken and reduce saturation of the forest background. I may have overdone it, and would like comments on this one.
The red cedars were everywhere, and many of them had fallen like this one. I think they decay very slowly, but are really nice to look at.
In answer to Rika's comment, here is an image that is approximately where I started (although this image already has some processing done to it in the raw image processing function of Photoshop).
Hmm... I don't think you overdid it. But you know what might be cool once in a while? You could post before-and-after Photoshop images once in a while so we could see the difference between the original image and the one you Photoshopped.
ReplyDeleteoh! you responded to my comment! cool. i see now that you brought up the reds. nice. funny how those forests are hard to photograph since there's so much lime-green everywhere.
ReplyDeleteI like the red too!
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