This week was one of my busier weeks at work - one of those weeks where I have a chance to use my psychology degree. On Wednesday afternoon, I found myself escaping the office and driving into the countryside. I'm not sure it requires much explanation, but I find comfort and peace on these little country roads - granted, I also wanted to take advantage of a 70 degree day (which quickly turned back into a 40 degree day...strange weather we're having right now) with my camera.
In particular, I thought of Tara's Live Every Moment photo challenge. This week's theme is trees. As much as I love to photograph leaves...especially during warm months, I find that the branches of trees are quite lovely.
Taken a step further, I have become quite intrigued with two types of adjustments: Inverse and Threshold. I first experimented with this effect a few weeks ago for Scavenger Hunt Sunday. If you're interested in achieving a similar look, I encourage you to find those functions within your adjustment layers and experiment. For added effect, I applied a couple of textures.
Happy Friday!
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Love it!! Looks like a few of us took advantage of that hour of nice weather to photograph some trees, eh??
;) Have a great weekend!
Ashley this is gorgeous!
Love this shot and your adjustments! I'll have to try it out sometime!!!! Have a great weekend!
a lovely eerie quality. so pretty. what? it was 70 degrees? ahhh!
This is SO beautiful!! It looks like a wood etching and a piece of art!
It's gorgeous!
I think inverse is one of the things I use the most in photoshop!
I love the textures you've added.
I love bare tree branches too. Love the effect.
GAH. This is so cool.
Pretty!
I love how you always 'experiment' and how you encourage us to do, too!
Oh, I bow down to you queen of texture!! Beautiful!
Gorgeous, Ashley!
Very cool.
This is GORGEOUS...GORGEOUS! I am going to have to look into those (never heard of them before)!! Thanks for sharing with us what you did.
PS, SO jealous you had a 70 degree day.
I LOVE it!!!! I'm going to have to play around with this effect.
I love this photo. But what you wrote has me intrigued: you have a psychology degree?
what a cool effect.
this is awesome!
beautiful! I love this.
Beautiful photo! And I love driving those country roads too, especially with my camera.
Jealous, the oy time I get to use my Psychology Degree is when my friend and I talk about our other friends troubled relationship and why she stays. Great photos!
What a cool and mysterious image. I so enbvy that 70 degree moment and glad you too advantage of it. Jealous.
That's so cool!
Our weather has been the exact same, warmer days and then wham! It's cold enough to see your breath again. Strange.
That is SO cool! I would totally hang that up as wall art.
Very cool! Looks like it should be on the front of a greeting card or something. :)
This is really pretty! I think you need to make a print out of this one.
I agree with you....it's a beautiful effect! Although I'm really a beginning in PSE, I believe I know where to start looking for Inverse and Threshold. :-)
Beautiful!!
A beautiful work of art.
Oh i'm glad you're getting the chance to use your degree!! And that photo is awesome.. I have experimented with both of those tools, their really cool!
I always tend to shy away from doing these different things- I think you may have inspired me to go ahead & try it. This came out great!
Lovely. This would be awesome printed out.
Marla @ www.blueskiesphotoblog.com
Your winter silhouette is stunning!
Okay! Now I'm gonna have to try those out...love this one!
Wow - this is really gorgeous, Ashley! Have a wonderful weekend!
I LOVE this! What a great shot! Ashley you are amazing!
WOW!! SO COOL! I love it! On my way to read some of you links.
Great blog!
This shot is beautiful! I love that every time I'm playing around in PS and I say to myself, "How could I use that adjustment?", you post a gorgeous picture using it. Once again, I'm off to experiment!
Love this Ashley. Great edit.
Just GORGEOUS - a work of art!! Thank you SO much for inspiring us the way you do! :)
I really love it. Great photo.
Thats awesome looking and the effect and edit is nice.
That would look really cool printed on a canvas and hung on the wall!
Oops, didn't mean to make the above comment anonymous...
I love nature. We have summer cottage by see but surround by woods. No noise, no people, no water pipes you take water from the well. Just you, nature, sea, good food, sauna and silence:)
Have a nice weekend Ashley
This is really cool! I really want to start using some textures after viewing so many others photos who use it in a subtle way. I just don't know where to start or what I am doing. I'll have to pick a day to experiment!
Wow!! That looks really, really cool. :D Love!
Nice effects!!! Good job! :)
Stunning!
I ADORE this! I'm so going to play. This would make a great blog header/button.
You inspired me, Ashley, and I 'found' Invert and Threshold. Now I have a tree image similar to yours. Thanks!
Looks so cool!! Almost like a painting :)
I LOVE this.
Ahh that is just beautiful - something about it makes me sigh :)
K xo
Love the effects and composition. Good job.
That shot is just gorgeous Ashley! I will be certainly be attempting to replicate that effect. :)
You take my breath away...that is absolutely stunning!
It's a gorgeous shot. Truly.
Absolutely gorgeous.
um, amazing. so I am going to go check out inverse, and the other thing you mentioned which I've already forgotten now!
So many neat things going on! Thanks for sharing! xo
Nice tree picture, it sorta reminds me of the one a took a few months ago, I love cool tree pictures!
I really like this Ashley - it's such a good idea to try out - I've never used the threshold tool but I use inverse every day on cs5.
I was just thinking this week that without winter, we would never get to see the lovely shape of the trees. They are so beautiful! Thanks for the tips on inverse and threshold, I'll have to play. :)
Alrighty friend. Just popping over to get caught up and make sure I didn't miss anything. The past couple days I did my blog reading by phone, so I wanted to see the real thing. This is COOL! I'm going to have to try it...makes the bare trees more interesting! Great effect! Love your creativity as always.
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