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Avalanche Shutes

© Chris Schofield

Avalanche Shutes

Uploaded: March 29, 2011

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Shot at the east side of Glacier Natl Park.

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Chris Schofield March 29, 2011

Here is the before shot #1365311

Lydia Lee level-addict March 30, 2011

To begin with, your POV is tremendous! Next, HDR gave you beautiful vibrant colors that work beautifully here. I love the lush trees in the background and the painterly effect and framing came out great. I would buy this, Chris. I absolutely love it.
Please upload the original and tell us what kind of painterly effect did you use?
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Chris Schofield March 30, 2011

Lydia,
As soon as I get home, I will list all the details and upload the original. I'm busy at work right now and will get to everything as soon as I get home.
Thank you for your wonderful comments. I'm really trying to get this painting thing down, as some of the photos submitted each month are absolutly stunning. Not sure I achieved it here yet, but it's a start. #9326668

Chris Schofield March 30, 2011

Oaky.. Here is the original. I had to remove part of the look out platform as I wasn't on it, and it was in my way. I did something illegal and walked off the trail a bit.:) I did psuedo hdr in photomatix, although it really didn't need much, other then to cover up my removal of the white fencing. I just recently purchase Corel Painter 4 Essentials. I started with the auto painting using oil painting, but changed some of the auto options to jagged edges, and the brush I changed to a special effects brush called Sargent. Apparently he is a well known portrait painter who had a special stroke. After it got done painting, I then used the soft edge cloner brush to bring out some of the detail in the rocks and water. I then brought it back into PS applied a nix filter to soften it up, and then increased canvas size to add the mounting. #9327111

Chris Schofield March 30, 2011

Here it is after I removed the lookout platform. #9327126

Lydia Lee level-addict March 30, 2011

Chris, the original color of the water is that emerald green? That's crazy beautiful! Where is this?

What do you mean by pseudo hdr. You did not take a series of shots with varying expos comp?

Corel Painter looks awesome, but with my essential tremor, I don't think I have the control it takes to do such fine work.

I really admire this piece of work, Chris. You are a really talented artist. Among all of the work I have seen of yours, however, this one just blows me away! #9327139

Lydia Lee level-addict March 30, 2011

Duh, you said it was Glacier. When my family lived in Montana, we used to visit Glacier every summer. I hope that it is still as untouched as it was 25 years ago. #9327142

Chris Schofield March 30, 2011

It was beautiful. It was still cold even though it was the end of june. It was a road trip, I took my mom, cousin and her son to South Dakota. Go to
christysphotosite.shutterfly.com PW is sk8mom . Click on Videos and there on the top right you will see 3 videos/slide shows.... One is the road trip.... There is music and everything to it. You can critique my presentation. You may have to put it on pause for a bit so it builds and doesn't keep stopping while it's playing or it becomes extremely annoying. The water was green in spots. the glaciers were melting, so that accounts for the green. You will see two photos of Lake St. Mary, where one is green and one is blue.
As for the painter... it has auto painter, and does it for you if you want. I'm here trying to do one myself as a mask, but you can tell I never held an artists paint brush in my hand. Still playing with it. And you can use the mouse with this software. Lydia, you have some beautiful painted images from our pattern stamp class that are just awesome. You can download a 30 day trial version.. Watch the videos, although the guy is really boring and hard to listen to, #9327219

Chris Schofield March 30, 2011

No I did not take a sequence of photos here because of the running water. I just process the raw file in photomatix. Single photo..they call it psuedo hdr, or my teacher called it that. If you watch the video, you will see several where I did all different types...grunge is my favorite. The only photos that are actually multiple exposers is the shoot of the bad lands. It was just me and my mom, so I could stop when I wanted, and take as long as I wanted, with noone in a hurry to be somewhere. #9327263

Lydia Lee level-addict March 31, 2011

Chris,
I enjoyed the video very much and great music, too! I love how you incoprated maps. It was wonderful!

Some of the scenes from Glacier nearly brought me to tears. I left Montana at age 22 and never thought I'd eventually move all the way across the country and never make it back. I miss it terribly.... Thanks for sharing that with me. It touched me in a personal way. #9328122

Laura Greene April 04, 2011

This is so beautiful! I get a sense of action from it that I normally don't get in photos. I love the technique used too. I'm about to purchase Photomatix, after seeing the wonderful artwork belonging to you and others from the class I am more than convinced! #9333296

Laura Greene April 04, 2011

This is so beautiful! I get a sense of action from it that I normally don't get in photos. I love the technique used too. I'm about to purchase Photomatix, after seeing the wonderful artwork belonging to you and others from the class I am more than convinced! #9333297

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