Super-saturated Island

I took this at Keswick in the Lake District and pushed the Hue/Saturation levels manually in Photoshop CS3 to achieve deeper colours and 'pop' the trees on the island out from the mountains in the distance. I would have preferred to not have the people on the left so dark, but overall I'm quite happy with this shot

Snapped using Canon 1100D D-SLR with 18-55mm lens with natural lighting

Monochrome Island

I snapped this from the lakeside at Keswick in the Lake District, shooting in colour and applying a monochrome filter later in Photoshop CS3. I admit to having a little trouble manually adjusting the levels to achieve the look I wanted. In particular, I found it very difficult to push the contrast enough to allow the focal point (the trees on the island in the foreground) to 'pop' out and still allow the mountains in the distance to remain visible. I think in the end I managed it, but I'm hoping with practice to achieve better results (and in a shorter amount of time too!)

Snapped using Canon 1100D D-SLR with 18-55mm lens with natural lighting

Monochrome Graffiti

I took this photograph in an underpass in Kendall in the Lake District. It was a beautiful day, hence the quite nice lighting which I allowed me to push the contrast ever so slightly to achieve a more striking monochrome effect than I had hoped for! The original was shot in colour, but I found that dropping the colour data and adjusting the Hue/Saturation layers as well as the colour channels in Photoshop gave a much fuller, 'arty' image.

Snapped using Canon 1100D D-SLR with 18-55mm lens with natural lighting

Close Up Flower Hipstamatic Style

This is (once more) the same photograph I snapped of a pretty flower at Windermere in the Lake District on 20/08/11. This time I applied some photoshop filters to achieve the popular 'Hipstamatic' look - as popularised by the iPhone app of the same name. It gives a nostalgic, super-saturated look, with some texturing and background blurring and a darkened border to really emphasize the 'from the sixties/seventies' look that makes it so popular.

Snapped using Canon 1100D D-SLR with 18-55mm lens with natural lighting

Monochrome Flower

A Monochrome version of the close up flower image I uploaded earlier.

Flower photographed at Windermere in the Lake District on 20/08/11.

Snapped using a Canon 1100D D-SLR with an 18-55mm lens and natural lighting.

Super-saturated flower

I took this in the Lake district on 20/08/11.

I really loved the colouring of the leaves, and thought to deepen and brighten using the Hue/Saturation layers in Photoshop CS3.

Snapped using Canon 1100D D-SLR with 18-55mm lens with natural lighting