My wife and I just finished watching the first season of ‘The Walking Dead’ a couple of days ago, and man, did we love it! Shame it was only a teaser at 6 episodes, but it was still pretty great nonetheless. Fantastic characters, a great post-apocalyptic style storyline, and some of the best looking zombies I’ve ever seen. If you haven’t seen it, make sure you check it out.
Inspired by the imagery in ‘The Walking Dead’, I decided to give today’s shot from Bombay Beach a bit of a post-apocalyptic/comic book/zombie feel. I definitely got a bit of a creepy vibe from the location when I was there, so I’m pretty excited with how this one turned out. As usual, all my stylization of this image was done in onOne PhotoTools. Honestly, since I picked up their full suite of plugins a few months ago, I don’t think I’ve published a single photo that hasn’t been touched in one way or another by an onOne plugin. It really is a great tool to have in the bag.
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Sweet shot bud, and I couldn’t agree more about the onOne Software. I just have the PhotoTools at this time, but it is incredible.
Im not one for textures but the way you framed and composed this shot it just works great. You nailed the atmosphere you were going for. Fantastic.
Wow! Now this is sweet! The texture, the color, and the subject all work great with one another to create such a decrepit and apocalyptic feel. Simply awesome!
love the filter on this one, will have to check out the walking dead.
Awesome shot Heath! I agree with Jesse, I’m not one for texture overlays either, but you made it look great with this shot! Well done! Perfect processing!
Man, you can almost picture Mel Gibson coming out from behind that building with a gas can strapped to the back of his bizarre car-thing from Mad Max in this scene Heath! What a great image my friend!!
That is great! I love the way you’ve processed this – very eerie/spooky feel to it. The vignette and grunge added with PhotoTools really helps make this. In some ways it almost looks like the skeleton or remains of a very large bug or beetle.
Really like this one! A perfect hommage to the show.
Very nice treatment, Heath. Just make sure you are carrying a broadax next time you venture in to the land of the zombies.
Bitchin!!!!
This is epic.
NICE!
Love the show, love the shot.
Awesome processing. I love the texture.
great shot – the light and texture are spot on – gives a really nice apocalypse feeling to the image.
Awesome – love the processing and apocalyptic mood
My wife and I loved that show. Glad you enjoyed it. You did a great job with this image!