Illusory
So 99% of the photos I post have had some sort of treatment or editing done to them. I generally don't announce what tools I used, but in a few cases I do feel I need to clarify just how much an image was manipulated. I'm fairly new to creating composite images using multiple layers, and this one was the first time I believe three separate layers were used. The first was the church. This abandoned church was in a residential area in a small town in Michigan. From the point of view I took the photo, there were phone wires criss-crossing in front of the building. I had to remove all of those. Secondly, I had to enhance the sky. It was a flat gray and needed more boosting. The second layer was the grass. I took a section of grass from another scene during this same trip to Michigan and used it to place the church in an environment other than the neighborhood environment with a mowed lawn and houses and a street right up next to it. Finally, I felt it needed something in the foreground -- a person or a church graveyard. I finally decided on this photo from 5-6 years ago, resized it, and placed the graves and the person in the foreground. Finally, I applied a number of different fine-tunings, converted to black and white, and did some slight blue toning to give it a more "moody" feel. A lot of work but a lot of fun. Hoping to keep getting better at this sort of thing because sometimes the subject is just not where you envision it in your mind and needs to be elsewhere!
Illusory
So 99% of the photos I post have had some sort of treatment or editing done to them. I generally don't announce what tools I used, but in a few cases I do feel I need to clarify just how much an image was manipulated. I'm fairly new to creating composite images using multiple layers, and this one was the first time I believe three separate layers were used. The first was the church. This abandoned church was in a residential area in a small town in Michigan. From the point of view I took the photo, there were phone wires criss-crossing in front of the building. I had to remove all of those. Secondly, I had to enhance the sky. It was a flat gray and needed more boosting. The second layer was the grass. I took a section of grass from another scene during this same trip to Michigan and used it to place the church in an environment other than the neighborhood environment with a mowed lawn and houses and a street right up next to it. Finally, I felt it needed something in the foreground -- a person or a church graveyard. I finally decided on this photo from 5-6 years ago, resized it, and placed the graves and the person in the foreground. Finally, I applied a number of different fine-tunings, converted to black and white, and did some slight blue toning to give it a more "moody" feel. A lot of work but a lot of fun. Hoping to keep getting better at this sort of thing because sometimes the subject is just not where you envision it in your mind and needs to be elsewhere!