DAY 11 . where i live . horse .
by roz

Comment by Ivory:
Roz this is beautiful and going straight into my fav's, what a unique perspective for a picture but I love it!!!

DAY 11 . where i live . horse .
by roz

Comment by smardaz:
roz i am quickly becoming your biggest fan, you do great work, i just added you to my list of favorite photographers so i can keep an eye on you ;)

DAY 11. where i live . ruins .
by roz

Comment by smardaz:
great shot roz...looks like the color is being sucked out of the landscape and into the sky!

DAY 11. where i live . ruins .
by roz

Comment by UrfaK:
love the composition and the destat!

DAY 11. where i live . ruins .
by roz

Comment by rider64:
Makes me want something to drink. It really is a great picture and well done on the PP.

DAY 11 . where i live . horse .
by roz

Comment by rider64:
This a great job of framing the horse. I really like the perspective.

DAY 10 . where i live . virtual crossing
by roz

Comment by roz:
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.

DAY 10 . where i live . virtual crossing
by roz

Comment by UNCLEBRO:
well, i think it works.
I like it.
but then again, I'm a fan of this kind of processing.
you can hardly see the join between the two images!
and of course, the transportation theme joins the two images together also.
the only minus I can really find is that the car is too "new" and doesn't really fit with the PP theme of "old".
although I doubt you could arrange to get an old car to pose on the bridge for you.
but what about an empty bridge?

there you go, you asked for it :-)

DAY 11. where i live . ruins .
by roz

Comment by sherpet:
It looks really great and so dry and dusty feeling of our true Aussie bush. I think you have done really well here.

DAY 10 . where i live . virtual crossing
by roz

Comment by SandyP:
I love the overall look of the photo, and I think the processing was way on the right track, but for my tastes (but that may just be me), but I would prefer a cleaner more natural looking sky, and cleaner on the cars -- even if the sky remains mostly sepia like it is, that would be okay, but more of the sky colors contrasted but clean. It looks like there's debris in the sky.

But on first impact when it popped up on my screen, I thought, "How cool" I like it. It was only after looking at it that I thought maybe just a little less on the sky.

Nice job tho -- isn't it fun getting to go wild in photoshop tho without worrying about voters! I love that :)