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Challenge: Photograph Becomes a Painting II (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Pentax K-3
Lens: Pentax SMC D FA 100mm F2.8 Macro WR
Location: Devil's Gulch, Samuel P. Taylor State Park, CA
Date: Dec 14, 2014
Aperture: f/10
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/5
Galleries: Landscape, Water
Date Uploaded: Dec 14, 2014

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[Dec. 24th, 2014 01:07:52 PM]

As soon as this challenge was announced I knew I wanted to do something using the Topaz Simplify filter. Then the rains came, and I knew the streams would be running, which is a great match with that tool because of the way it makes running water look like its painted with brush strokes. A break in the rains came, so I headed out to Samuel P. Taylor State Park, where I knew this section of the stream, conveniently located near the road, would be running. Bracketed some long exposures so I had a variety to work with. (Also did a grab shot of a fern that I didn't like for this challenge, but ended up entering in Botany just cuz I had it).

This starts with the oil painting preset in Simplify, then a bunch of adjustments and tweaks from there. The trick with that tool (for DPC) is to apply the filter after resizing, because the effect disappears otherwise. Made some LR adjustments and then added a little NIK at rull size, then resized to 2400px to apply the Topaz filter, followed by some adamus sharpening.

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Nikon D800
Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6G
 12/26/2014 09:09:57 AM
Gorgeous results !

thanks for explaining the process
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Nikon D7000
Nikon AF-S DX 18-105 f/3.5-5.6 ED VR
 12/25/2014 08:21:30 PM
Beautiful 'painting'.
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Canon EOS-5D Mark IV
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L II
 12/21/2014 01:07:54 AM
This is awesome effect! Could you please write down how did you do it? It's perfect!
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Nikon D7200
Nikon AF-S DX Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G
 12/19/2014 05:30:00 PM
The water actually looks like it has paint lines.
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Nikon D5000
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 50mm f/1.8G
12/19/2014 02:26:16 PM
Now this looks like a painting, very well done.
One of my top picks.
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