Michael Moore
About the Image(s)
I’m always fascinated by the variety in fall leaves and wanted to create a still life with a reflection. The original shot was set up on an old broken picture frame piece of glass and was shot at ISO 400, F8, at 0.4 seconds with one F7-II LED light. In Photoshop, I cloned out all the messy bits and removed the stem from the seed pod as I found it to be a distracting element. I added my texture using the Color Dodge blending mode. I used a Levels adjustment layer with the gradient tool to have the texture dissolve to black on the reflection and another Levels adjustment layer to reduce the glare on the seed pod. The image was finished off in LR by adding a little clarity, texture and vibrance to the upper leaf.
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I sometimes use reflections with portraits - they make interesting end results.   Posted: 11/23/2021 16:55:52