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I was trying out some of the lessons from chapter 1 and 2 of Photoshop Compositing Secrets by Matt Kloskowski. This book is worth every penny, I highly recommend you add this to your photography library shelf.
I used Photoshop CS5 to add a very slight HDR effect to the group of people in the photograph using Nik Softwater's HDR Efex Pro. I then selected and moved the subjects out of the original photograph and moved them into the HDR photograph that I used for the background. The selection of the subjects from the original photograph took me about 2 hours to do because I really wanted it to look good. The hard spots were around the heads and in between people. The background HDR photograph is composed of 5 bracketed shots that were merged together and processed in Photomatix 4. When I'm cheating and applying an HDR effect to single file, I tend to like using HDR Efex Pro. If I'm merging a set of bracketed shots togther, I always use Photomatix 4.
I welcome your feedback & critique? Compositing is one of the techniques I plan to master.
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Winners of the Head pennant. Crew composite of Army RC, Gloucester RC, Imperial College BC, London RC, Minerva-Bath RC, Oxford Brookes University BC, and Tees RC
How I got my final image in photoshop CS5:
the top left is the final result from the other 3 images combined.
It's pretty simple, will take *maybe* 10 minutes if you have the images you want to use, and you're just learning.
I just selected what I wanted to place in the final image-in this case, the baby's head, arms, and his back/belly), copied, pasted into the picture of just the basket, presents and black. Then I tilted the head and placed it where I liked it best and took my eraser brush and erased where the fur on the basket was.
Then I selected the black background, copied and pasted again into the same image. Then I brought in the bokeh texture and clipped it to the black background layer and adjusted.
Then I ran Rita's Coffeeshop Baby Powder Room and just used the smooth at about 40% or so(I forget, it might've been +/- that... just until it looks creamy, but not overly fake smooth) on baby's skin.
I adjusted the curves a bit, then erased it from the background to keep it pretty, and that's pretty much it!
Textures Only ~ Competition #213
Source image with thanks to Temari 09
GhostWorks Texture Competition #92
Textures with thanks to Skeletal Mess
www.flickr.com/photos/skeletalmess/7343561304/
Space images with thanks to NASA.
Composite Image of DGFX photography and a redrawn Swordwielder image. Swordwielder are a crust band from Gothenburg, Sweden
Composite of several images.
Strobist info:
[1/8] Flash left w/ grid spot.
[1/8] Flash right w/ snoot.
Negative image and various other simple processing techniques to enhance color and contrast.
I took these with a wide lens and used a tripod. I adjusted the camera settings in AV mode then switched over to Manual Mode. I stacked the photos in Photoshop and used layer masks to Erase and then combine images.
Removal of the carriage prints reveals some of the original scumbling on one of the Third Class partitions. The match boarding below the view frames are painted - in First Class they are covered with moquette.
A three-part Pan/Composite at the top showing the receding Test Train set with DBSO, 9708 bringing up the rear as lead unit, 97301 passes under Darnall Shed's flyover and heads towards Woodburn Junction, having a a single yellow aspect on Woodburn's up-line signal, just under the bridge. Heading out of Sheffield. east along the GC's Lincoln line is another hourly service to Lincoln, this time in the form of another Northern Rail class 144 DMU, 144008 on the 2P67, Scunthorpe to Lincoln Central service and passing traction which has obviously been using the same paint bucket for its livery as the Northern's front panel. Extensive line clearance and with the additional extensive clearance of the land at either side of the Darnall Curve, here once again seen in all its 'lacking a line' glory, right of centre and curving up to join the Woodburn curve, coming up from Woodburn Junction from the other direction, at Attercliffe Junction just south of the old Attercliffe Station site; all shown on the 1905 map at lower right. The two north to west and north to east bound curves, along with the main lines on the left made a large space of triangular land, which over the years since the removal of the Darnall Curve line, has been used for 'other functions', i.e. dumping a large amount of crap onto the overgrown area and all this has had to be cleaned out and the land atop the bank on the right, bulldozed to make it even possible to start work. This space is now fenced off and heavy plant has moved in, uncovering the foundations of buildings, over on the right in the distance which, looking at the maps below, appeared after 1905 and before 1953, the approx. publication dates of the right and left map respectively. Unfortunately the older map tends to have more details relating to the lineside industries whereas on the 53 map the artifices are merely 'grey blobs'; but one such grey blob can be seen right alongside the Darnall Curve and it must be the foundations of the remains of this structure which the excavators are now revealing. This building is evident as a square, multi-floored (4) concrete affair looking a bit like an early multi-storey car park; the only indication I can find on a 1924 map is that it was a Foundry. The triangle of land inside the 3 lines is marked as being used for 'Allotment Gardens' and this is still partly used for that purpose to this day. The maps show that there was much else going on in this area to the west towards Sheffield Victoria and to the south of the main line, the main feature here, clearly seen, the Nunnery Colliery and a line running behind the Woodburn Junction signalbox, now 'cabin', taking movements along the MR's Nunnery Colliery Branch, below which was the L.N'W.R's Goods Line and south of that the line into Nunnery Colliery, the Nunnery Colliery Railway. To the east were the Kettle Bridge Brickworks and beyond that, the Cravens Railway Carriage Works and opposite, coded 41, the GC's Darnall Shed, built in secret, to replace the inadequate facilities at Neepsend Shed, to the west of Sheffield Victoria Railway Station. The vast area of railway lines to the west of the triangle of lines, running towards Sheffield Victoria, have now all been lifted, apart from the ones seen here and the land is now occupied, in the main, by the Sheffield Parkway and one of the Sheffield Supertram Depot's; the latter, at Nunnery has just taken receipt of the 1st of the new class 399 Tram/Tain units, built by Vossloh in Spain, see-
and this unit was delivered to the Depot on Monday night.. not without some event as it turned out; all we need now is the track up-grade to allow this unit to run on the GC lines between Meadowhall and Parkgate. (Thanks to Arfadint for the background info. here). NR Test Train with 97301 in charge and DBSO, 9708 at rear are on the Immingham T.M.D to Derby R.T.C, 3Q24, working and is seen here heading to Sheffield for a change of end and a 45-minute break after which the whole lot will be back here in around an hour; and so will I....
Despite the numerals on the doors, this is the Third Class end of the coach. The right hand four or five compartments were from one of the two SER Third Class and one First Class six wheelers that were incorporated into the prototype composite coach.
A composite from an afternoon shooting macro of my Mason Bee (osmia lignaria) house in the backyard.
To freeze some of the action I use a slight fill from an off-camera flash setup.
More about bee shooting on my blog.
A composite image using Expedition Everest, some Happily Ever After fireworks and a starfield that I photographed in March. Comments / Criticism welcome!
Composite image formed from 9,900 source images from Flickr, all tagged "Antarctica".--
More stuff by jbum:
German-speaking lands (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and parts of neighboring countries) and Italy, 1460-1500 with modern additions.
The vambraces (arm defenses) are not a matched pair, and were made by different master armourers. They were part of the cache of armour found in the fortress of Chalcis on the island of Euboea, Greece, known as the "Chalcis Hoard".