Pampas Grass Silhouette and Saturated Film Effect

These images should have been posted Sunday, 8/23/2015.  I was walking past my neighbor's Pampass grass late last evening when it was really dusk.  Decided to try for a silhouette against the sky to just pick one stalk.   That was not an easy task to avoid ones next to it.  I actually took & edited in Camera+.  Then I wanted to see what would happen if I tried "saturated film" effect in PSE 11.  I also removed the left most frond? using the healing brush. This gave some color back to the image and I liked the lighter backgound with the sky seemed to have a motled effect. Will be looking for more Pampass grass images..   

Tree Bramches with Photographer Silhouette

Tried to take tree branch silhouette but captured myself in the foreground. Do not know why there is texture artifacts on the tree trnks and the photographer image. I did not like the scene which was taken in color. Converted to sepia under old time filter in PSE 11.   Unfortunately there is a white line  across the top 1/3 of the photo that is the curb         The leaves of this maple tree just starting to leaf out.  Could use in an art journaling page with other photo related images.

Erynn & Logan Viewing Fish Tank @ Sciquarium, GSO, NC 4/10/2015

Grand children were here last week. We went to the Sciquarium, Greensboro Natural Science Center on Friday.   I previously posted a picture of the penguins.   I am posting an image like I saw done by Greensboro Daily Photo, but I took with the iPhone 5C.  You have very little control of the fish movement since fixed speed and this is a low lighting situation.  I did increase the shadows and midtones, and cropped slightly in PSE 11.  Sharpening would not help this image.  Logan is stamding in the middle and Erynn is to his right.  When I took this image no sharks were swimming past the glass.    

Midnight Pink Sky with Gum Tree Silhouette

On Friday near midnight, I looked out my kitchen window and saw a pink sky. I grabbed my iPhone to try to get the image. I shot it with Camera+ app for the iPhone. The main silhoutte is a black gum tree which I did straighten. Like all pictures of sunrises, sunset or atmospheric phenomena what your eye sees and what the camera sensor sees can be two different things.  I did use the filters in camera to try to simulate what I thought I saw including colorlab tint and a little brightness. I may have overdone the pink as difficult to really tell on small iPhone screen. This window faces East. Too early for a sunrise and there are no commercial ventures in the neighborhood that would have explained the color of the sky. It was "one moment in time". Some night I am going to get a nice moon shot using this tree.  I will post the original for comparison but you not even a tinge of pink and a more brown/black coloration plus exposure dark.