Just saw this "What The Duck" comic strip and it made me smile.

Guess I've been spending too much time with Photoshop!

I am trying out the Nik Software Color Efex Pro 3.0 filters and processed a couple of photos with them as an experiment. The filters work as a plugin to Photoshop with a very neat interface.

The first picture, a shot from outside the Eliot Spitzer resignation, got a cross processing filter that I though was pretty cool. The second, a self-portrait, got a duotone filter and some film grain.

I kinda like them both.

Here's an image I took on a cold night five days before Christmas but only just got around to processing.

I recently learned some Photoshop techniques to address perspective problems that allowed me to fix this image and turn it into something special. Shot with my Nikon 18-200mm VR lens at a focal length of 20mm and looking up at the sky, I ended up with all the building tops converging in the center due to the upward tilt of the lens.

However, using the lens correction filter in Photoshop CS3, I was able to change the perspective to straighten the buildings out and render them as they really appeared. Then, a little processing fun with color and texture and I was done. Hope you enjoy it!