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i haven't done any matea-post-processed....some photos really lend themselves to the playing-around that i do....this is my first of my girl.
i like the effect i'm getting from over post-processing...not sure why...i guess it feels more creative than simply downloading and uploading pics....and i enjoy the painterly quality of it. not sure what others think...
Urban butterfly
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This photo is an example result of some Photoshop techniques that I am trying to learn. This is a result of my own trials and errors. I think this is an interesting example of what some experimentation can result in.
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This week I wanted to find something colorful so that I could really play with the post processing tools introduced in this weeks lesson. I thought the mural surrounding this window did the trick. I struggled with whether or not the window is the focal point of the photo. At first glance I would say no, but as you spend more time with the image and realize that the window is the only "real" item in the image I think it becomes the true focal point. Also I had to make some framing choices, to balance the fireplace I had to include just a bit of the sleeve of a person framed out of the photo. Similarly the image may not appear horizontally balanced but that is the mural painting, closer inspection will show the window is horizontal. Also this was a bit of a challenge because this building was located on a busy road, so to get my shot I had to run out into the middle of the road with my camera and tripod, get the shot and run back before cars came, then do it again and again and again until I got the shot I wanted.
Wanted to draw more attention to the water...like the abstract elements of shot. letter boxing to give it arty film feel.
This started out as a spiral decoration at a circus exhibit. I used a Photoshop CS3 plug-in filter to create a kaleidoscope version and also fiddled with gradient layers to develop the color combination.
Photos taken at Sherrard Point on Larch Mt. , Oregon. July 2008.
Upper left: Single exposure.
Upper right: HDR composite of three exposures.
Lower left: Single exposure, cropped.
Lower right: Single exposure, cropped, split tone colors added, blue highlights, brown shadows
Auto levels in PSE actually did a pretty darned good job. It makes adjustments on each of the red, green, and blue color channels and gives you a mild blue in the sky and a reasonable amont of contrast. You can tweak things further by sliding the luminance levels adjustment (all channels) by adjusting the shadow slider up to about 30 to further improve contrast. What I did in this actual photo though was use the Nik Color Efex Pro 3.0 color grad filter effect to give a nice blue sky. I rotated the grad effect so that it was level with the landscape, and then set it to lessen the effect as it got closer to the landscape edge for a nice halo effect. What I also did in the lunch discussion was to use the smart selector or magic wand tool to select only the sky portion, create a new fill layer, and then filled it with an opaque sky blue. There's lots of ways to do the same or similar things. If you wanted to make a big print of this, you could spend another hour or so cloning out the remaining glare from the gondola windows. In this example after everything was done I still wanted to push the highlights a bit more, so a final levels adjustment pulling the highlight slider back from 255 to about 220-230 really livened things up.