Shutter-life|Adaptive photography and more, by Henrik Johansson

I’ve said it before, split toning can turn a bland shot into something that’s really eye catching. When I saw some shots of jellyfish in a fish tank for the first time, I thought they looked spectacular. But the tenth time, the shots wasn’t that interesting anymore.

During a visit to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, I still had to make some jellyfish shots for myself. To make this shot of Pacific sea nettle jellyfish more interesting, I used split toning to add blue tones both to the shadows and the highlights.

Today, I decided to go through some old shots from last year. During a walk back in July at Old Uppsala, I made several shots of and a hover fly. I processed and upload one of best the shots quickly but left the others. Today, I convered one of the remaining shots to sepia, more or less by chance. I really liked the outcome, especially the petals and the bokeh. Nothing special with the post processing, some vignetting, used curves to increase the contrast, played a bit with the grayscale mix and I also added some black,fill light and recovery.