Challenge - a tree in freezing fog

It’s been a while since I created a play-raw post… So here we go. I shot this on an evening walk right at the end of last year. I was lucky that there was freezing fog (probably my favorite weather phenomenon) in the city for a few days, so all trees were covered in white spikes :smile:

And I got this: (btw., this was shot at night time under a sodium-vapor streetlamp)

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My version…

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This one was trickier than I thought it would be.


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I ran my colour cast reduction plug-in and got this unexpected result!!!

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Pop Art.


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A second attempt redoing the CC module and moving the skew slider in Sigmoid.
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Looks like a forsythia in bloom!

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Imagine my surprise when it opened in RT as an orange image - but one click on the ice with the WB picker and, lo, the blue sky appeared by magic!

Anyway, I applied the the Orton Effect:

Yea, that’s partly why I shared this play-raw, to make people go “huh…?” :face_with_raised_eyebrow::laughing:

I did pretty much the same, one click in the Color calibration module and some tweaking to make it look more believable.

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Not completely serious…


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It is Cold. lol

Used Resynthesizer for this one (and a weird twine brush to create the text). :slight_smile:

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Smaller crop to show more detail in the small view on the web.