I Hear Mars is Gorgeous this Time of Year [Concept Experiment]

In order to take a bit of a brake from some of the cases I’m analyzing, I decided to take 20-30 minutes to go through and process some photos for upcoming snapshots on the site. I had taken an HDR image of dirt to test out something else I’ve been trying to experiment with, but the various shots of the reddish clay made me think “I wonder if I can make that look like a version of Mars”. With Nik Software‘s Color Efex Pro doing most of the heavy lifting, I ended up getting the image I was looking for.