1. Take a stroll in the forest.
2. Find a puddle beneath the trees.
3. Look for best angle of reflection and 'click'.
4. Process raw file in LR & Silver Efex Pro.
5. Invert image in PS and apply Gaussian blur and texture.
6. Add moon to taste.
7. Smooth levels
8. Serve on 365.
9. View on black.
like many fantastic recipes, it looks easy when someone else writes it, but I have no doubt that there is something else required to get this sort of result. Great shot!
I have to ask if I got you thinking about textures with this one. LOL Love what you have done here. Sorry I didn't post last night but fell asleep on the computer last night. You have taken a nice picture and made it special.
@joansmor The texture is quite subtle on this one Joan - it is visible in the lower part of the picture in the black areas. Without the texture the contrast between the black sky and the light branches was just a bit too much - the texture (only 10% opacity) relieves that some I think.
@vignouse I meant that this is your puddle picture I said might work for a texture and I wondered if that got you thinking. I didn't even look for the texture here. I just enjoyed what you had done.
@joansmor No this is a completely different image that I took with exactly this treatment in mind - the texture was an afterthought to reduce the contrast some..
It might just be me, and I might just be weird, but the trees remind me of the circulatory system with veins and capillaries shooting off.
Thanks for the step by step too.
Ian