Camera’s View

Winter hasn’t really started and it looks like it is going to be a long one here along the coastline of Massachusetts.

Not a good day for making images, at least not for a fair weather photographer like me.

So I thought I would play around with Lightroom and Photoshop along with a few techniques that I have been playing with the last few days.

There was really nothing special about this series of images. The original was randomly picked from images that I had not assign a high rating and would probably not print.

The image was captured off Castle Rock, which is located off Ocean Avenue on Marblehead Neck section of Marblehead MA. Castle Rock gets its name from the castle-like private home next to the park. Once known as “Great Head”, Castle Rock was a lookout for arriving and departing fishing fleets and for pirate and enemy ships, both British and French.

- Google Earth Locator

This is the original image capture, no adjustments -

First thing I decided to try was to run the image through the Scott Kelby’s 7-point System to adjust the “punch” of the image. I then decided to apply the “Orton Effect” (The Orton Effect is named after Michael Orton who first used the technique of sandwiching two images, one in focus the other out of focus). I then applied a mask to remove the effect in some areas. Resulting in this image -

I then decided to see what would happen if I applied Matt Kloskowski’s “New York Effect” to the “Orton Image”. Resulting in this rendering -

Unfortunately, people who know me, know I can not leave well enough alone, so I tried to add another effect where I used a preset from the WOW Collection by Ben Willmore (that was available for free download for NAPP members). With this effect, I was able to isolate the browns in the image for this effect -

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