“Old Growth”

© 2014 Thousand Word Images by Dustin Abbott

Towards the end of the school year I went on a class trip with my boys to a placed called “Shaw Woods”. My favorite aspect of the trip was a section of many acres of forest that have been protected from any kind of logging and represent a rare section of old growth forest. This path runs beneath a lot of old beech trees, which make for wonderful lines in a photo due to the extremely smooth bark and then a rich canopy of foliage higher up. I have gone for a fantasy look here by using some color infrared processing through Alien Skin and some actions. Here’s hoping this ends up on a book cover someday…

Technical information Canon EOS 6D, Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6L IS USM, Processed in Adobe Lightroom 5, Adobe Photoshop CC, and Alien Skin Software 6

Gear Used:

Canon EOS 6D DSLR Camera (Body Only)
EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6L IS USM Lens
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 Software for Mac and Windows (Boxed Version)
Adobe Photoshop Creative Cloud 1-Year Subscription
Alien Skin Exposure 6

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