Drive-by shooting.

This is a shot I took through my windshield while sitting at a stoplight about a month ago. The backlit trees caught my eye due to them all being in various stages of springtime atire. I think that's a redbud up front in pink, and a magnolia in back in dark green. I'm not sure about the light green and the yellow but, I'm almost positive that's an oak dead center in the back and still bare.

As usual with this type of high contrast scene, what I saw and what the camera captured were very different, so played with this in picnik tonight just to see what I could come up with. I sort of liked the look of this one, so it's my daily for tonight.

Update: Wow, I really didn't expect so many to like this one. I did like the composition, which is why I kept it around, but the file out of the camera was just too high in contrast and way too busy, with some areas in sharp focus and others blurred by the water on the windshield. It was actually painful to look at. All the effects seen here were done in picnik, with the exception of a standard levels adjustment in Lightroom. The picnik filters I used were Focal Zoom, with a high setting and switched the Mode to Lighten; Orton-ish, again with high bloom and brightness settings; and Focal Soften with a lower setting than the default. That's it. I just played around with various sliders until I thought it looked interesting. Glad some others liked it as well. ;-)

Drive-by shooting.

This is a shot I took through my windshield while sitting at a stoplight about a month ago. The backlit trees caught my eye due to them all being in various stages of springtime atire. I think that's a redbud up front in pink, and a magnolia in back in dark green. I'm not sure about the light green and the yellow but, I'm almost positive that's an oak dead center in the back and still bare.

As usual with this type of high contrast scene, what I saw and what the camera captured were very different, so played with this in picnik tonight just to see what I could come up with. I sort of liked the look of this one, so it's my daily for tonight.

Update: Wow, I really didn't expect so many to like this one. I did like the composition, which is why I kept it around, but the file out of the camera was just too high in contrast and way too busy, with some areas in sharp focus and others blurred by the water on the windshield. It was actually painful to look at. All the effects seen here were done in picnik, with the exception of a standard levels adjustment in Lightroom. The picnik filters I used were Focal Zoom, with a high setting and switched the Mode to Lighten; Orton-ish, again with high bloom and brightness settings; and Focal Soften with a lower setting than the default. That's it. I just played around with various sliders until I thought it looked interesting. Glad some others liked it as well. ;-)