Subway Station in Seattle

New Journal 46 – American Hospitality

From East coast to West and anywhere in between,  our American road trip has been characterised by two things: Photography and hospitality. In every single city we’ve visited, local photographers and non-photographers alike have been amazing.

In our final American leg, Dave Morrow, star photographer extraordinaire, has been awesome in showing us around Seattle. He can party harder than us – I realised that the first day we met. He greeted us with a shot of whiskey and a hip flask of dark rum – such is his enthusiasm for enjoying himself.

I look forward to shooting with him again in some remote part of the world.

It’s hard to imagine that we’ll be in London in just a few days. These three months have whizzed by. It frightens me to think how quickly life is moving on, sometimes. I need to make the most of it.

Our arrival in the UK will mark the beginning of several new projects and exciting journies into new destinations, where hopefully we’ll be greeted with the same generosity shown to us by our friends across the pond and capture some beautiful shots.

Today’s Photo – The Subway Station

I modeled this shot on Dave’s image of the same place, with a few adjustments. You can see his image on G+, and follow his awesome work too.

The walls really need to be desaturated. Architecturally, the station is a great subject but its colours are extremely lacking. With a simple desaturation layer, I whited the walls and then created a new layer, on which I painted the colours in. I changed the Blend Mode to Soft Light in order to incorporate the painted colours into the image more smoothly.

In much the same way as I brightened up the arch area in my last image (Mesa Arch), I used a simple Levels adjustment layer with a circular selection to bright the end of the tunnel, which in turn created a gentle vignette on the outer edges.

Before the Joys of Post-Processing