Play around!

The Bar. Gold Hill, Colorado, 2013

Yep…play around a bit with your images. For you Instagram types, I guess the above example is old, moldy hat, but I do like playing with the adjustments on the Polaroid preset that comes with the Nik Color Efex Pro plug-in. Maybe it makes me think of my grandfather and those cool instant prints that came spitting out of his big fold-up Polaroid Land camera…you had to wait 60 seconds as the picture slowly developed itself right before your very excited, kid eyeballs–magic!

Now, if you want to try something a bit more crazy (if’n you really want to let yer hairs all the way down to yer waist) here you go–grab your sunglasses! It’s the same image as above, but treated with some strange and random adjustments to an ultrasecret Nik Color Efex preset:

None of this is my usual style, but it sure is fun!