Sea of Lupine

We were covered in lupine as far as you could see that year!

From California's 2010 wildflower season. We were covered in lupine as

far as you could see that year! California Central Valley. As for

processing, mostly just selective local layer adjustments such as

selecting the green by itself to keep the amount of contrast right,

this almost automatically brings back the color that was lost because

it was one of the darkest colors in the image. Hand blended multiple

RAW files to keep the noise out of the shadows and tone down the

dynamic range.Things I did not do, add magenta, place in clouds from

another photo (I keep it real), or any kind of Orton Effect such as

glow filter or selective blurring. No overly darkened vignetting and

no painting the blown highlights yellow, so I basically took it easy

in photoshop. At the end I did add some warmth to it with Nik's

Brilliance and Warmth filter in Color Efex Pro 4. You can get a

discount after a trial version by using my last name. Thanks for

viewing and have a great week!

beautiful scene, wonderful shot, really inspiring...love to visit over there and take some photos myself...although I would need your help to get this result :D

wonderful work with

great composition and

colors!

best wishes!

stunning focusing..... wowwww

simple and outstanding. well done.

Steve,

Beautiful sea of flowers. Very nice cloud formation. Is horizon tilted down to right? Really enjoy this one.

One of your best.  Love all your photos here, especially about the description of how to achieve this.  Thanks a lot.  Best Regards,