Week 41 - The Orton Effect

52 Week Challenge, Week 41 – The Orton Effect

This week I haven’t had the opportunity to get out of the house as my husband has had a knee op and needed a bit of help.

 I used the time indoors to research a photography effect I have been unsuccessfully trying to achieve for some time.

I discovered this is called the Orton Effect and thanks to great YouTube videos from Anthony Morganti and Mark Denney I have been editing some older photos trying to attain the dreamy glow for which this technique is used.

This effect was first developed by Michael Orton, a landscape photographer in the 1980’s using film and the darkroom.

Thankfully with Photoshop (and to some degree Lightroom) this is much easier to achieve nowadays.

 So far I have only attempted it on these landscapes but am going to trying it on portraits, baby pics and flowers.

 I have a long way to go to become accomplished at using this technique but I enjoy the images it creates and will be applying it and practising with it often in the future.