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by yanko

Comment by Simms:
Nice one mate.. good work.

onion tears
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Comment by Debbi:
Scrubbing Machine? Is that an inside joke?
Debbi

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Comment by SandyP:
Way to go, Richard! I love your work so much, and it is WONDERFUL to see it in the winner's circle :)

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Comment by stevieian:
Wow.... This is extraordinary... I'm not sure, frankly, if it's dealing with an "emotion", and it's anything but "abstract" on the surface of it, nut nevertheless the assemblage DOES seem to represent the abstraction of an emotion. It's an interesting issue, since an emotion, of itaelf, IS essentially abstract, and an abstraction of an abstraction ought to be a specific, just as two negatives make a positive. Whatever... This is extraordinarily beautiful...

What he said ... :)

onion tears
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Comment by Bernard_Marx:
Artfully done as always. I like your treatment of the "light".

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Comment by Bernard_Marx:
It reminds me of one of the illustrations depicting the underworld in my childhood copy of C.S Lewis' Prince Caspian. From a top-down perspective I can distinguish a single figure looking back up at me... from a hell I have escaped.

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Comment by Dirt_Diver:
Congrats on your ribbon...

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Comment by pineapple:
Your image conveyed the theme very well to me. (7). I like the composition. Congrats.

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Comment by yanko:

Originally posted by AlexSaberi: brilliant work. NOW how did u process this? :-)

I pretty much did my usual stuff. That is:

1. Boost detail in this case I used LucisArts and Color Efex Pro Tonal Contrast combined but it could have been done with Photomatix or Shadow Highlights + a contrast or curves adjustment.
2. Turn day into night by shifting tones towards blacks in a controlled manner using masks on curve and exposure adjustment layers. Almost all of my dark imagery starts out very bright so I have good detail in the shadows to start out with.
3. Dodge and burn
4. Finalize color using curves and hue/saturation
5. Clean up imperfecions and smooth out tones via healing/cloning/blurring.

onion tears
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Comment by danielcheong1974:
Congrats on the Ribbon!
Nice work!