A Jedi Master Always Walks Alone

My partner Carol and I went hiking Sunday through the Los Osos Oaks Reserve. The Sun was out in full force. With lots of light shining through, bright blue skies in the background, Carol with her Leki stick – and a little reduction in the shadows and blacks and less clarity in Lightroom, I quickly realized that I was looking at a Jedi Master walking into the light of an Oak Forrest.

A Jedi Master Always Walks Alone (Carol) Click to enlarge.

8 comments on “A Jedi Master Always Walks Alone”

Thank you Irfran :O) I have found that if I start with a ‘great’ photo very little needs to be done. I took about 100 photos of our walk through the Oaks and only a couple of them really jumped out at me as anything with potential. This one really caught my eye and I said to myself, “Oh Yea!” :O)

This is so psychedelic, what kind of processing did you do on this one?

Beedie on May 9, 2012 at 1:20 PM said:

Hello Irfan! Thank you for stopping by. I actually did very little to this photo. It was taken on a walk in the Oaks Reserve forrest where I live. I use Adobe Lightroom 4 for post processing. I reduced the clarity to give it the soft, dreamy feeling and reduced shadows and blacks to bring in more light. That’s about it. I might have adjusted exposure but not sure. The setting was already in place for me to take off on the Jedi Master theme. :O)

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- Irfan Hussain on May 9, 2012 at 2:28 PM said:
  
  Hmmm, looks like you did just amount of processing that was needed. You’ve achieved the effect that you wanted your audience to get. That’s a job well done. It does look dreamy, more like a painting.
  
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Do you think I can learn to be a Jedi? Life would be so much easier…

Beedie on May 9, 2012 at 3:30 AM said:

Ah Yes! But we must first consult with a Jedi Master ‘allthingsboys’ – there is much work to be done. :0)

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LOL…she does now H.J. She was quite taken aback when I showed her the photo. She loves my photos :O) I did take a shot of the super moon and it looks like all of my other moon shots! LOL I had no point of comparison to use as a foreground or basis of comparison. Where it rises in my locale I was unable to really capture anything significant. However, I could certainly tell with ‘my eyes’ the difference. It was much much brighter and looked closer than usual. Thanks for asking :O)