We finally had a day of beautiful spring weather so I stopped along the East Bay Bike Path for today's photo. I positioned myself at the bottom of this hill along a curve in the path and was quickly rewarded with this photo of a roller blader leaning into the sharp turn. This bike path is part of the old "Rails to Trails" program reusing abandoned rail lines and is also a lengthy section of the Greenway project that will ultimately run the length of the East Coast. This section stretches from Providence to Bristol and follows the old PB&W rail line.
Post processing started with a simple pop filter in Topaz Adjust. In that plug-in I adjusted adaptive exposure, regions, contrast, and protect highlights. I then brought it into Topaz B&W FX. There I adjusted color sensitivity sliders, adaptive exposure, regions, boost black, boost white, and contrast. In PSE I added a dodge to shadows on the blader's jacket at 100% opacity, then added a dodge to midtones in his jacket at 25% opacity. A levels adjustment was made to the overall image, followed by a sepia photo filter.
