Rapid Flow #1

Rapid Flow #1
Originally uploaded by Jonathan Robson

One of a series from Waterfall Glen this afternoon. It was pretty chilly, especially standing in the water as I did for some of these shots (with Goretex lined boots on!), but worth it I felt in the end. About half taken with my Sigma Macro 150mm, and the other half with my Sigma 24-70 + CP filter.

They were taken mid afternoon with the added challenge of half a dozen people stood on the bank watching me in the middle of the river with my camera, can't imagine what they were thinking!

All processed in Lightroom, no Photoshop, a lot utilizing the Direct Positive preset and some additional toning to give a blue hue - which I liked. Some are also selectively desaturated.

The Little Store

The Little Store
Originally uploaded by Jonathan Robson

A shot from our visit to Covington, Georgia at thanksgiving. Its funny, the shots of this store at the time I took it I felt would be the best ones I got while down there, in the end my shot of the bank I liked much more, so I never got around to doing anything with this shot till now, and I actually kinda like this.

The shot looks like a HDR, it is not, it was made to look that way in Adobe Lightroom by the very scientific method of bumping the recovery, fill light and blacks to 100% then backing off the saturation to -60ish. I used that as a base for some photoshop filters - channel mixer, selective saturation, curves & gradients.

I got chatting to the store owner while taking these shots, he was a friendly chap, I promised him I'd send him the finished result, not sure if it will be to his tastes, but a print is on its way to him!

Standoff

Standoff
Originally uploaded by Jonathan Robson

From following the little guy around with the camera & flash, i don't think he notices the camera at all anymore. This was a simple bounce of the flash off of the ceiling using ETTL-II with +1 FEC. 

For the post processing I was experimenting with the aged photo look and threw some extra toning in for good measure.