Ray Ban
by Paul

Comment by kanaj:
For me, the film grain on this one gives it a sort of retro glamour. Would have made an amazing Advertisement entry in that challenge. :-)

Trace of dog
by Paul

Comment by bassbone:
excellent textures with a story to boot!

Ray Ban
by Paul

Comment by PennyStreet:
Beautiful, pensive, love the processing and reflection.

Sand and seconds
by Paul

Comment by Paul:

Originally posted by glad2badad: Originally posted by Paul: Originally posted by glad2badad: Not crazy of the processing. Sorry. I think there’s less processing than one might think. Muted the colours a bit and cloned out some linear artefacts introduced by the long exposure software, and a bit of added structure. Hmm. Interesting. Well, my apologies then. It appeared to me, and kinda still does, that an art filter of some type was applied (not that I'm totally opposed to them as I've used them a couple times myself). Just seemed like a muddy image without much definition, and that seems to have been intentional. Art is a finicky thing I guess. :-)

Here’s the original:

Sand and seconds
by Paul

Comment by glad2badad:

Originally posted by Paul: Originally posted by glad2badad: Not crazy of the processing. Sorry. I think there’s less processing than one might think. Muted the colours a bit and cloned out some linear artefacts introduced by the long exposure software, and a bit of added structure.

Hmm. Interesting. Well, my apologies then. It appeared to me, and kinda still does, that an art filter of some type was applied (not that I'm totally opposed to them as I've used them a couple times myself). Just seemed like a muddy image without much definition, and that seems to have been intentional.

Art is a finicky thing I guess. :-)

Sand and seconds
by Paul

Comment by posthumous:

Originally posted by Paul: Originally posted by glad2badad: Not crazy of the processing. Sorry. I think there’s less processing than one might think. Muted the colours a bit and cloned out some linear artefacts introduced by the long exposure software, and a bit of added structure.

That's what I thought. Gave it an 8. Beautiful.

Sand and seconds
by Paul

Comment by Barroness:
Very beautiful, stunning use of editing.

Sand and seconds
by Paul

Comment by Neat:
Superb Paul, and to me this looked like it was all in camera, I think the edit was just perfect not overdone one bit.

Message edited by author 2025-07-08 05:08:56.

Sand and seconds
by Paul

Comment by Paul:

Originally posted by glad2badad: Not crazy of the processing. Sorry.

I think there’s less processing than one might think. Muted the colours a bit and cloned out some linear artefacts introduced by the long exposure software, and a bit of added structure.

Sand and seconds
by Paul

Comment by tnun:
yes.