the autumnal face of the thames

only one post this week ... not quite what i was hoping for but better than none i guess - the whole idea behind keeping this record is working well though as i have been taking the camera to work each day and actively searching for new photo-ops, so i guess it hasn't all been in vain ;)

a while ago i found instructions for completing Infa-Red (IR) conversions on colour images and i must say that i have been pleasantly surprised by their effectiveness, so much so that i created a dedicated action within PS and run it randomly on images just to see what they might look like

i took this shot of the thames along the footpath at the bottom of river lane near work in richmond - the river was at high tide, most of the trees were barren of leaves and the light was perfect for just a moment and luckily i had brought the camera with me, so i grabeed this shot before heading back to work for the afternoon - there is slight processing of the original with regards to saturation and levels simply because my pocket digital is somewhat lacking and also a bit of a crop to remove some of the extraneous sky and water

having improved the original to what i remember and saw in my mind's eye i decided to run that IR action and was totally blown away by the results as you can see here:

the change gives the image a somewhat errie, almost ghost-like feel to it - i'll have to remember to try this out more often, maybe in the graveyard down the lane ...