Tag: fog

  • China’s Yellow Mountains with NIK Silver Efex Pro 2

    China’s Yellow Mountains with NIK Silver Efex Pro 2

    We took hundreds of pictures of the fog wrapping China’s Yellow Mountains but we simply couldn’t find a way to process them that met our expectations. After many months of trying our clever Photoshop tricks, we decided to dust off the NIK Silver Efex Pro 2 plugin and give that a go. These images are…

  • Tutorial: Milky water and Misty Forests

    Tutorial: Milky water and Misty Forests

    We spent the weekend in Paso Robles,  deep in the heart of the ‘other’ grape growing place in California. In addition to all the fine wines, there’s art everywhere, some of it even quite nice. The pictures that captured our attention was a series of paintings that depicted landscapes as viewed through thick fog. We…

  • Tutorial: Neighing in the rain (white balance)

    Tutorial: Neighing in the rain (white balance)

    It’s all about the crop or It’s all about the temperature I posted the below picture last week. I was very unhappy with it at the time but I couldn’t work out how to make it better. Thanks to May‘s version of the image, I now know what I was doing wrong. The above picture…

  • Slinging Fire in the Fog

    Slinging Fire in the Fog

    The above photo is not mine. It was taken by May Wong. She kindly allowed me to showcase it here, I’ll explain why in a mo. Here’s her Facebook page. For a while now Eric and I have talked about teaching a light painting class, and while nothing has come of it, we have used…