A peaceful scene at the Wanaque reservoir P1340269

Phil1923 over 12 years ago

Hi Everybody,
This is the Wanaque reservoir in late afternoon. Very peaceful.
There is a succession of these reservoirs starting with Monks reservoir
much further north.
There are scattered towns along the east side of these reservoirs.
The west side is absolute wilderness. No roads -- just a few hiking trails
which we are too old to climb any more.
Ellie and her "Committee to Save the Highlands" are fighting tooth and
nail to keep it that way. After all, it has to be preserved for the
occasional hiker who wanders through there. I'm on her side. It makes for
great photography scenes as well.
Phil

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Silvio Gomes over 12 years ago

Hello, Phil.

Certainly it seems to be a very nice and quiet place. But what kind of handling was given to the photo?

If you have edited the picture, it would be interesting to show the BEFORE and AFTER states,

with some explanation of how you got the result.

After all, this is the main purpose of Forum – show us what Corel Suite (by PhotoPaint?) can offer us.
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Phil1923 over 12 years ago in reply to Silvio Gomes

Hi Silvio,
Thanks for the compliment.
Attached is the original.
.. I follow the same routine (workflow ?) for almost all my pictures.
1. Switch to the Lab mode in PhotoPaint. (I have no use for PhotoShop CS5.
About $1,000 down the sewer.)
2. Separate sky, land and water with Color Mask (aka Color Range). Clean
up with the Freehand mask tool.
3. Usually, I have to import a sky since my point and shoot camera
routinely burns out skies.
4. Apply a slight blur to the selections using Paint on Mask.
5. Convert to three layers (objects).
6. Use a sledge hammer approach with the Lab Curves. It’s usually a steep
S curve in the Linear style. I move the center to change color.
7, If I have the time, I duplicate each layer and put it into the Multiply
merge (blend) mode to darken it.
8. Use a layer mask (clip mask), a gradient, and then the opacity slider so
that only the corners become somewhat darker.
.. The scenery just happens to be great up here in the hills. I take no
credit for it. I used to hate these hills when I had to go to work on steep
icy roads. Now the wife and I are out almost every day taking pictures. We
never noticed how nice they looked until we retired.
Phil
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