day 73 - oiled wax paper II

this is basically another attempt at day 66's "oiled wax paper" shot. while writing that one up, i wondered what it would look like with water droplets on the wax paper. well, this is the result.

i played around a bit more with this one than i usually do. hit it up with some split toning in lightroom, after doing a custom b/w conversion in lightroom. lightroom has a really great approach to b/w conversions, basically it turns the image grayscale, but you still have sliders to adjust the brightness levels of all the different colors.

so if you have say a guy with a red shirt in your picture, and you want that shirt darker, slide the red slider darker. the shirt (and everything else that's red) gets darker. you play around with the sliders after making a grayscale conversion, and you can get some really cool results. in this image i found that the magenta slider basically controlled the texture in the upper right corner of the image, so i was able to very precisely adjust it's value. other sliders controlled other elements.

when i was done with the grayscale conversion, i hit it with the split toning. all i did was make the shadows blue and the highlights green. thought it looked good, so i called it a day.

setup shot: