Ok, so when I say Spartans I don’t mean the guys in the movie 300 (however they were also cool), I’m talking about this amazing old 5th wheel trailer that is out at Cisco. We went and photographed it the other day, but when we got there this evening the light was just making it incredible. When I was photographing the images above I had in my head that old school Art Deco style that you see back in old travel brochures and posters. So I used a tool that I know could let me get what I wanted Color Efex 3.0.

Just as the last rays of sunlight dove behind the mountains they poured into this barely standing shack and lit up the window. What a great day.

Captured with 1D Mark IIN 17-40f4 on Lexar digital film

Ok, so by now if you have seen Moose’s blog you know that a new Nik Software program called Viveza is on its way. While I was out with Moose shooting I got a chance to try it out, and YES Canon shooters this is your answer to NX!!!

This a quick example of some of Viveza’s power. First off, I would like to point out that this is a Canon Raw file. You can work with your Raw file with Viveza. Over the course of the last year every time Capture NX was demoed at a DLWS event I automatically got the question “Josh, what program can we use to get this same effect with Canon Raw files?” Well, here is your answer. The only step that you will still have to perform in CS3 is setting your black point and white point for color cast removal.

I can’t wait to get this on my own computer so I can really put this program to the test. The user interface is a lot like Color Efex 3.0 so the learning curve is really fast (I had this example image done in about 20 seconds). That upoint technology is really an amazing thing.

Once I get the program for myself I’ll blog a little more and give you a good run down.