Shot Notes
This is a statue of Hathor in Egypt. To process this image I used a new technique I discovered last night. I saw it used with great effect on this image of an Amur Leopard taken by Thomas A. Statas. Like all photographers I have met online he was happy to share the technique. He used a Photoshop Plug-in called Fractalius. The effects are based on extraction of hidden fractal textures. For the artistic types it adds cool lights to your pictures.
[...] by doubling the resolution of the image. Normally this would not get you anywhere but then I used Fractalius which effectively redraws the image with new detail. I ran it several times to get the different [...]
[...] I took an existing stock image which had undergone HDR processing then I used the Photoshop Plugin Fractalius. I took a while for me to locate the Plugin in the first time I used it. Then I realized it only [...]
[...] used it to De Saturate and Blur background. Then I inverted the mask and used it to add some subtle fractalius to [...]
[...] levels layers and in some cases individual channel levels to keep the sky blue. Finally I used a Fractalius layer to add some glow to the [...]
[...] on the car and de-sat and de-focus background. To add some extra sparkle I also added a subtle Fractalius [...]