Cyanotype - Creepy dead tree

[Shokinen]

Just wanted to take 2min. to share how I ended up with one of my favorite shot

This is the original RAW picture exported in JPEG without any adjustement:



I used Lightroom to get the next picture

- I selected the Cyanotype preset.
- Croped a little bit.
- Dropped the clarity to -100.
- Increased the Light Tones to 20 to get brighter clouds.
- Increased the Dark Tones to 40 to get a brighter water.
- Decreased the shadows to -50 to get a darker tree / background / foreground.
- Increased orange, yellow and green Gray Level to 100 to increase what was floating around the tree.
- Decreased the blue, purple and magenta Gray Level to -100 to get a darker sky.
- Added a little bit of sharpening
- Added some vigneting to increase the dark look of this picture...
... et voila !




Enjoy everyone

[JaxD]

Love the eerie, desolate, abandoned feeling you've created! Thanks so much for sharing your technique..

[dionv]

Wow. Nice work! Looks like an evening shot in the dead of winter. Thanks for the step-by-step on how you achieved the effects.

DionV

[z0mbina80]

nice! great subject for that ^ ^

[franky]

I love what you did with the photo. We can really feel the atmosphere...

Thanks for sharing!

[NgaiHill]

Wow, great effect! Love what you've done.
Thanks for sharing.