New Forest Collection

As the British weather has picked up over the past few weeks (with the exception of this weekend), I had the opportunity to head out to the New Forest, Hampshire to picnic, stroll and shoot. Below are three of my favourite shots of the day:

This was one of my favourite shots during the day. It already had great composition before I placed it in Camera Raw.

I'm really a fan of F1 photogapher Darren Heath, who uses really exagerated colours to add movement to his pieces which is why I chose to increase the hue/saturation on these pieces in order to add vibrance to a 'nature' shot.

Also decided this shot would benefit from a graduated filter (from top to bottom, approximately 50% of the shot) as by this point the light was fading and some of the detail was lost higher up in the canopy.

I enjoyed taking this picture as it had a natural rule of three and in particular its rare to get a picture of my sister as she is usually camera shy. Again I have tried to keep the vibrant nature by increasing the saturation to approximately +25. However as this was a crop of the original JPG I was unable to keep the detail no matter how much I tried to sharpen it.

When I took this shot the light had faded drastically and I was shooting on a B&W film effect. This meant there was some slight luminance which was causing some graining. To correct for this I toyed around with luminance and masking options in Camera Raw for quite a while. I eventually ended up with an image which was significantly softer on the edges than the original. Once I reframed the shot I got one of my favourite shots of the day (On the plus side everyone's smiling too, which is a bonus).