Happy New Year to those two or three of you who drop by from time to time.My wife and I went for a walk in Sproat Lake Provincial Park which is very near to our home in Port Alberni, B.C.
It was good to get out and I took my camera and tripod along to see if I could capture anything that interested me. This was one of the first shots I took as we got near the water. I had been wanting to get a shot that had some reflections in it and this is a start for me. I did do some post processing work with a couple of actions, notably a gaussian glow effect that seems to work good for landscapes since I have yet to bite the bullet for the NIK filters. I also cleaned up all my sensor dust and finally duplicated the layer and used the overlay blend at 44% opacity to boost it a bit. I also cropped it a bit to tighten up the image and cloned out some distracting remnants in the left corners.
This is all great fun for me.
Resolutions for the New Year? Just to take more photos and increase my skill and understanding of all things photographic.
All the best in 2008.
