Desert Glow

Posted by Don Smith (California, United States) on 8 January 2009 in Landscape & Rural.

Prior to my days as a color landscape photographer, I worked completely in black-and-white. I would spend countless hours in one of my various darkrooms working and re-working images. The magic of seeing a print emerge in the developer tray simply cannot be reproduced in the immediacy of the digital age (nor can the lovely smell of chemicals). Lately, I have playing with a relatively new software from Nik Software called Silver Effects Pro. I went back to an image I shot in Nevada's Valley of the Fire State Park and using the High Structure filter, I converted the original color image to black and white. Could the magic be back! To find out more about all the Nik products, please visit their website at Nik Software. To see more of my images and read many of my "how to" articles, please visit my website at Don Smith Photography.

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