Rainy Day At The Kintai-Kyo Bridge. 
It was a rainy day at the Kintai-Kyo Bridge. Cool location and I really wanted to create a vibe other than rainy grey day. So I used various textures to give color and detail.
Beautiful oak bark with nice texture. Background or wallpaper.
"Reaching Out"  Trillium wildflower abstract
This part of the Great Wall of China is one of the two sections that are just outside of Beijing.  Due to their close proximity, thousands of people go those places every day, making it a total tourist trap.  The cherry on top was overcast blah clouds.  So, a total waste of time for any real photographer…right?  Wrong.  That mentality is outdated by about eight years.  What you can do now is focus 100% on composition, and then take it to post processing and create your piece of art.  I chose to use this powerful brunt paper texture to give it the feel that you are looking at how the wall was a thousand years ago in its full glory.

My suggestion for creating light and mood in post processing are:
1.  Textures (pictured below)
2.  Fake Sunsets (I’ll be releasing a tutorial soon on that with 100 downloadable sunsets)
3.  Photoshop some Fog and Light Beams in (I use Topaz Labs for the Fog and Photoshop>Filter>Render>Clouds coupled with Photoshop>Filter>Blur>Gaussian Zoom set to soft light)
3.  Lightroom (the two biggest secrets by far are the temperature slider under Basic and the vignette slider under Effects)
5.  HDR (using photomatix of course)
6.  Topaz Labs (I especially love the Adjust and Lens Effects plug-ins)

Rainy Day At The Kintai-Kyo Bridge.


It was a rainy day at the Kintai-Kyo Bridge. Cool location and I really wanted to create a vibe other than rainy grey day. So I used various textures to give color and detail.
Rainy Day At The Kintai-Kyo Bridge. 
It was a rainy day at the Kintai-Kyo Bridge. Cool location and I really wanted to create a vibe other than rainy grey day. So I used various textures to give color and detail.

Rainy Day At The Kintai-Kyo Bridge.


It was a rainy day at the Kintai-Kyo Bridge. Cool location and I really wanted to create a vibe other than rainy grey day. So I used various textures to give color and detail.
See photo in original gallery.