Light and Ice
by yeti

Comment:
absolutely beautiful .. excellent colours, excellent composition ... great feel ......

Luxury
by Retroesque

Comment:
hi lisa ... this is an excellent photograph ... so sharp, and the colours just zing .. great perspective ..
can just imagine you taking this picture ... down on the floor ... IN A PUBLIC PLACE!! ... very brave after being told not to shoot in there!! .. i'm sort of getting over being shy about taking photographs in public since dpc ... a case of necessity!!! .. i took some shots at starbucks today, i've been told previously not to take photos at the mall ... i reckon .. WOTEVER!!! ....

edit ... we're in sequence .. AGAIN!!! ...

Message edited by author 2007-02-10 06:56:33.

Drive Day 9
by emily212

Comment:
absolutely love this photo ... and wot an amazing scene ... i take lots of shots out of cars when i'm a passenger .. just excellent ..

Day 9 A River Runs Through It
by Elaine

Comment:
excellent scene ... it could almost be down the road from where i live and we're in summer ... it looks very dried out wot i can see of the fields, which is how it is here, but it could just be an exposure thing? ..
love the look of that water .....

Day 8 Rivercut
by Elaine

Comment:
its a stunning area where you live and you photograph it so well ...

Day 7 My Church
by Elaine

Comment:
excellent shot ... love the grain and the b&w ... great composition and i love the design the snow makes on the roof ...

Day 5 Home Sweet Home
by Elaine

Comment:
elaine .. you have a lovely home .. very welcoming and it looks rural? ..

Day 4 Frozen Pond
by Elaine

Comment:
hi Elaine .. i'm trying to catch up on comments and now i've gotta go out with my daughter .. she wants me to go do yoga with her .. and of course she comes before dpc ... just noticed your comments on my work and before i turned off computer i decided to see your latest photos ...
it looks so cold there and i love that community of birds all doing different things ..

Waiting for a sunset
by Valdo

Comment:
wow ivan this is stupendous!!!!! ... absolutely stunning photograph ...
you've been doing some excellent work in the 30 day where you live challenge ....
(i came to this image from the 400D thread... it does look as tho that thread is dying and it was such a good idea ... there are things i'd like to talk about re my 400D and ask questions etc etc and the 400D post'd be an excellent place to do it ... if you put something in there tho it might be read in the next millenium!!! ..) ..)

DAY 10 . where i live . virtual crossing
by roz

Comment:
answer to hipychik
two photographs .. increase width of canvas size in one image to 200% and bring in other photograph ... played around with different layer effects ... duplicated the train layer and scaled it up to cover the entire image .. i did this because if you have no details underneath a layer that you've changed from normal to say overlay, colour burn, colour dodge or wotever, then it wont work ... those sorts of layers have to have something going on underneath them .. like if you have just plain white or black then nothing will show at all ... its different for the different types of layers tho ....
i selected luminosity for both the train and car layers .. i then skewed the car so that it aligned better with the train layer, and then skewed the train layer to fit better with the car one ..
i did an adjustment layer in levels and made the sky a lot more dramatic, i then erased in that adjustment layer everything except the sky .. to erase in an ajustment layer i select the pen and use black and if you erase something by mistake then you draw over that area in white .. i think .. i havent got photoshop open right now and my memory totally sucks ..
i erased the edges of the bridge to merge better with the train tracks ..
i think i would have resized and merged the layers at this time and then i think i did a colour balance to give it a browner look ... i then brought in a photo of some bricks that i took and made them an overlay layer .. i scaled this layer up very very big .. and would've taken the opacity down to 70% or something ....
i then linked the brick layer and the image of the train and car and resized it so that it was more square because it was too long and thin and images in dpc dont go well like that imo ....
then i reckon i would have resized and merged the layers again and sharpened then border then saved for web .......

this is only approximate!!!

there are probably much better and quicker ways of achieving the result i want, but at this level of knowledge , these actions are the best i can do .. i am really wanting to learn how to use MASKS but i find the info in help etc very confusing .....

Message edited by author 2007-02-09 16:20:12.