Roundhay Lake 1

Original Image(s):

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About This Image:

I'm personally not too sure about this image as I feel it is all lead in with no focally point, however having said that I have had several requests for copies of this image. It's a shame I didn't keep original as that was quite dull but brought to life by a few simple touches.

What I Did To Original:

On the original image I thought the sky was rather dull so I darkened the top lefthand corner and raised the contrast in the clouds with an Adjustment Layer. This gave the clouds the impressions of kind of tumbling into the scene. The foreground decking was very monotone pretty much black and white, to resolve this I added another layer and applied a red/brown gradient to that layer that faded towards the vanishing point. This gradient spilt over the decking as I hadn't selected an area to restrict it to so I simply erased the spare gradient that overlapped the lake. To finish I raised the Colour Balance on the lake to make it match the blue of the sky.

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