Sunlight through mist

[Mad Ged]

G'day, this is the first photo I have posted on DPS. It was taken with my Panasonic point & shoot camera (I now have a Pentax K20D).

I woke up one morning and when I saw the mist outside I rushed out to try to capture the magical look but the original pic did not look how I remembered it.

I did the old 'copy the layer, heavy blur and multiply layer style' trick and it looked more like how it felt at the time.

I did not change anything else apart from that, does it look over-processed?

Any comments or criticisms welcome.

Cheers,

Gerard



Camera: Panasonic
Model: DMC-FX01
ISO: 80
Exposure: 1/200 sec
Aperture: 2.8
Focal Length: 4.6mm
Flash Used: No

[Darwin]

Hey Gerard,

The effect is fantastic. I get emotion from this photo that I know would be different had it been a classic "sharpened" image. Is the effect as simple as you described? What kind of blur did you apply...if you don't mind?

Fantastic shot, very nice processing in my opinion.

Shea

[Mad Ged]

Thanks Shea, yes the effect is pretty simple. To go into more detail: You duplicate the layer and change the layer style of the new layer to multiply, (at this point I usually lighten the image on the new layer because the multiply layer style will darken the final result).

Then apply a heavy gaussian blur to the new layer and you get the dreamy effect. Give it a try!

Cheers,

Gerard

[Aegea]

I think that blur technique works really well - I'll have to try that myself, as I've always been disappointed when I've tried to capture foggy scenes. As an additional comment, that scene looks like it has a wide dynamic range and you have captured it about as well as possible without resorting to HDR techniques. Very nice shot, congratulations!