This Little Blue Heron (thanks to Klaus for the ID) was out by my backyard lake this evening. I ran out with my Nikon D3 and Nikon 180mm f/2.8 (Kenko 1.4 teleconverter attached). I couldn’t do much with the picture because I was shooting mostly into the sun…..but want to show what the Photoshop plugin called NIK SILVER EFEX can do. It’s a black and white converter and it has many choices of how the picture can look. I’m showing three but it can do many more.
My husband got the software for my birthday and I wasn’t impressed until using it yesterday for the first time. Now I will use it whenever possible.
There are so many good programs out there to help photographers. It’s fun to find one that is helpful to me and so much fun to use.
In yesterday’s post I used this software to make the picture of the ‘Little Blue Heron’. it’s called
I’ll do more tomorrow and use pictures that show off the process better than these today.
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NEUTRAL BLACK AND WHITE CONVERSION-this is the first conversion into black and white from the original that I used.
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SOFT SEPIA
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TIN TYPE
2 Comments
October 1, 2008 at 5:05 am
Gaye
Very beautiful..I agree with Rvewong, the pictures look like some paintings in the Japanese style. Must learn to use this NIK software. A lots of funs and thanks for sharing.
October 1, 2008 at 11:14 am
Chrisy,
Thanks very much! I hope to post more today using that NIK software. It is not only easy but it’s fun to use because each click brings up a new look in the picture.