Weekly Photo Projects, Week 38

Week 38: Landscape

For +Project 52 B&W our theme was Landscape. I had recently read up on some infrared workflows and techniques so I was once again tempted to try infrared out. It seems my 720nm IR filter is good with black and white conversion but not so good with doing faux color shots, so with that in mind I shot this. I really liked the outcome. The deep black sky was primarily achieved through the IR filter with some tweaking in Topaz Labs Black & White Effects 2. The shadows from the bush on the right kind of play with you, I think, as you want to think this is a night shot.

Week 38: Autumn

Unfortunately I needed to use a backup shot for +Weekly Photo Project 2013's Autumn/Spring theme. It's almost a continuation of last week's photo. In terms of anything special about this hot? I applied the Autumn preset in Topaz Labs Adjust (on sale for Sept for 50% off using "septadjust") which gave it the warmish tone I had envisioned. Then jumped into Lens Effects to add some grain in the photo. Cropeed it square in Aperture to get rid of an annoying distraction on the right and wanted some kind of frame. My one complaint with the Topaz set is not having the ability to add interesting frames, so I tried out an export plugin for some border options called BorderFX.