one lonely success

as you may recall from previous posts, my good friend Josh Bradley is an amazing photographer. over the past couple of years, he’s been lending his talents to the rest of us mere mortals teaching numerous photography classes all over the world.

recently, his work caught the eye of the people over at Nik Software and they asked him to author “The Official Nik Software Image Enhancement Guide“.

a few weekends back, i had a chance to sit down with josh and have him show me what Nik’s software could do with a “barely-average” photo I had taken on a recent trip to Mammoth Lakes.

In roughly 5mins, josh had taught me how to take my “eh” photo into something presentable.

here’s the before photo:

using Silver Efex, josh created this:

and using Color Efex Pro 3.0 and a few layering tricks in Photoshop, we got this cool HDR-effect:

pretty cool, eh?

the best part is that these techniques and about 75 more are all in the book, step-by-step lesson-style. you can buy it over at Amazon and should definitely check it out if you’re interested in taking your photography up a few notches.