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| ©Michael G. O'Brien |
Originally shot with Fujichrome 100 slide film in 2003 along the coastine of Nova Scotia - the slide was scanned with a Nikon Coolscan 5000 then uploaded to Lightroom
The image was then cropped in Lightroom 5 to put the tree in right third. I also chose a 6x7 aspect ratio to give the image more vertical emphasis to balance the three horizontal stripes made from the natural divisions occurring within the frame. I like the 'thirds' crop tool overlay.
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Next we took it from Lightroom into NIK Silver Efex. I chose the Full Dynamic Smooth setting because it produced the right tonal range for this image i.e. with the black point being in the foreground foliage. Then I used Control Points to darken the sky, thus bringing some of the cloud detail out so the sky was not just a white blank, as it appeared to be in Lightroom.
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This alternate version I made in NIK Analogue Efex using one of the Toy Camera settings. The blurring and just about every other effect in this picture can be adjusted using the right Control Panel of the program.
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