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 08/26/2005 02:53:54 PM · #1
So I have this photo 'My Hidden Pond'. I put it in my portfolio and in a short time received surprisingly (to me) good feedback. Don't get me wrong, I really like the photo, but it was one that I didn't think would be really well received. But it got lots of views, several great comments and 3 favs! So what do I know :-P
(again, thanks to those comments and favs!)
Anyways, Bear music was kind enough to take a look at it, and had some ideas, so I sent him the original and he whipped up a pretty cool version of it himself. I like his version, I think he gave it a good sense of depth, and really enhanced the 'lights to dark' range.

You hear talk often about the photographers 'vision' when processing an image, and I thought maybe some would be interested in this look of different 'visions' of the same photo. (thanks Robert, for taking the time to work on this)

So here is the photo. (oh, and my version is available on dpcprints, hehehe)

my version:


Bear music's version:


original, un-edit:

08/26/2005 02:57:24 PM · #2
Wow its almost dreamy...I like it
 08/26/2005 03:08:08 PM · #3
Great edit tater. I like the soft look of it. I'm curious though as to what method you and bear used to fix the blown out sky?
 08/26/2005 03:11:47 PM · #4
I like the soft look better. It makes it more of a "dreamy" photo.
 08/26/2005 03:18:03 PM · #5
I like the soft look better though I feel that curves needs to be applied to this version.
 08/26/2005 03:21:26 PM · #6
I think something in the middle..

bear music: too overproccess...
yours.. too soft..

play with yours with a "s" mark in curves...just my opinion..

08/26/2005 03:23:52 PM · #7
Originally posted by justin_hewlett:
Great edit tater. I like the soft look of it. I'm curious though as to what method you and bear used to fix the blown out sky?


For Bear's, he would have to say. I would conjecture (because he has given this advice in the past) that he selected the sky, and applied a linear gradient, with a shade of blue for foreground color, foreground to transparent, and dropped the opacity. I have used that technique before, and it works good, just have to play with it. Have to ask him to be sure.

As far as mine, I selected the sky and reflections in the water, used a light blue color and painted it with the paintbrush tool, then did a little bit of burning to 'break' it up, then dropped the opacity of that layer down til it looked right to me.

Don't know if the sky was really 'blown out' per say, but it was very early morning (I was after that morning slight mist) and I think it was just really washed out and flat.
08/26/2005 03:29:11 PM · #8


Message edited by author 2005-08-26 15:55:03.
 08/26/2005 03:30:23 PM · #9
Love both versions but I'd really like to know how Bear gets that type of saturation out of an image and makes it look sooooo good.
 08/26/2005 03:35:34 PM · #10
Originally posted by strangeghost:
Love both versions but I'd really like to know how Bear gets that type of saturation out of an image and makes it look sooooo good.


I don't know but I would guess some type of glow. Bear is very good at editing.
 08/26/2005 04:30:06 PM · #11


thought i would have a go at it, too. i used an action called Dave's Midnight Sepia. i also cloned out the tall branch in the middle of the shot...just a little digital pruning. :)
 08/26/2005 05:15:31 PM · #12
Some of the versions look like they have been processed with the gothic glow action. Thats why they have such deep saturation.
 08/26/2005 05:41:00 PM · #13
Originally posted by taterbug:
Originally posted by justin_hewlett:
Great edit tater. I like the soft look of it. I'm curious though as to what method you and bear used to fix the blown out sky?


For Bear's, he would have to say. I would conjecture (because he has given this advice in the past) that he selected the sky, and applied a linear gradient, with a shade of blue for foreground color, foreground to transparent, and dropped the opacity. I have used that technique before, and it works good, just have to play with it. Have to ask him to be sure.

As far as mine, I selected the sky and reflections in the water, used a light blue color and painted it with the paintbrush tool, then did a little bit of burning to 'break' it up, then dropped the opacity of that layer down til it looked right to me.

Don't know if the sky was really 'blown out' per say, but it was very early morning (I was after that morning slight mist) and I think it was just really washed out and flat.

Thanks. :)
 08/26/2005 07:50:04 PM · #14
My versinon used a linear gradient in the selected sky, on a separate layer and faded, just as tater surmised. I also use a home-brew version of gothic glow as well, involving the creation & mergining of many layers in different layer modes with either gaussian blur or extreme USM applied. Sometimes neatimage on some of the layers, but not this time. I can't be more precise 'cuz I kind of just stir the pot until it looks right :-)

As usual in my "makeovers" it's exaggerated dramatically, kind of to mark the outher limits. It's quite correct, IMO, that the best result might be soemwhere between the two. For my tastes tater's is a little too soft, and certainly a little too flat, I want the sense of depth that composition implies to be echoed in the tonalities.

It was fun.

Robt.
 08/26/2005 10:00:14 PM · #15
Well, this was fun and interesting. Some great edits there folks. Anyway, it's interesting to me, how different people can put there own little flare or style to the same shot.
And thanks again Robert. The depth is exactly what I am working on getting the hang of. As I've noted in some of your photos, the feeling, the sense of depth is amazing. I feel like I could take a walk through the image.

Thanks everyone :-)
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