Pull out the Color, pull out the Toys

At the same time I’m thinking B&W on heavy overcast days, I’m looking for bigtime color. Well, color that I can pull out and that’s what I did here.

First, the photo was taken using my current miniature technique with the 24PC. Then using NX2, I yanked the red out of the roof on the Lime Kiln Lighthouse. Last thing I did was in CS4, use Color Efex 3.0 > Tonal Contrast with all sliders pulled to the right for the first global pass. I then ran the same filter with the same settings for a second pass using a layer mask to paint in the effect just to the lighthouse.

The problem, its still gray skies!

Photo captured by D3, 24PC on Lexar UDMA digital film