Borrowed a Canon 100mm macro lense from a good friend and went on a walk to a local nature reserve, this peice of grass looked interesting so took a couple of photos both in digital and slide.
Mods done to this image were ...
Brightness & Contrast layer
Flattened image
Hue & Saturation level and chose "Colourize" and made some adjustments
Burned some areas
Duplicated background layer
did a Shadow / Highlight adjustmenr
changed the Master Opacity
Flattened image
Changed to Lab Mode
Chose the lightness channel and did a USM
reset the mode to RGB
Resized the image using Bicubic Sharper option saved & uploaded.
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