A Grim Day Up North

[Ryewolf]

A few images taken today and inspired by an artist Trevor Grimshaw that FUJI pointed out to me... and a little bit of tweaking using Redfield Fine Touch

 

 

 

[FUJI]

I think that you have hit upon a great theme here Geoff....not to copy Grimshaw exactly but to develop your own version, of what is unique to your area.

FUJI

[Ryewolf]

Thanks FUJI, today was one of those grim dull days we often get up here, it also got me thinking about what the modern versions of the mills would be.. To be honest you can't go very far around Lancashire without seeing windfarms everywhere, or out of town steel shed industrial units and power lines...

Many of the old mills weren't built in towns but out in places where there was ample water supplies.... and the deep sided cloughs that we have here provided that.

[johntwo]

I like the finish on these.  It particularly suites the first three.  I could see the third one on a wall.

[Ryewolf]

Thanks John, these were a two step process, for the third image I used a very contrasty B/W setting I have in Photomatix Pro, but then turned up the colour saturation to normal and then the colour temp way down to the blue side... Once I'd done that I ran the image through the Redfield Fine Touch plugin to create a separate image (it's free and should work on most windows Photoshop versions - I have it running in a very old version of Paint Shop Pro - but not Macs alas...) and then just used the two images on separate layers with an standard opacity layer at 50% ish for the Fine Touch image above the tweaked camera image....

I used the Fine Touch default Colourize preset with no changes... it produces some very nice stylised painterly effects, but using that image as a layer over the original image - depending on the opacity of the layer - changes how realistic/stylistic the final image is...

Best thing is Redfield Fine Touch is free... https://www.redfieldplugins.com/