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12/04/2005 08:42:48 AM · #1 |
 I just can't seem to get any depth to the tones on this one. Give it your best shot. |
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12/04/2005 09:01:41 AM · #2 |
| Do you have the original color version? Would be better to start with it. |
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12/04/2005 09:05:03 AM · #3 |
I did my quick best. The problem with this image as I see it is the background has the same tones as the building. In this edit, I used variations - yellow, red, yellow then desated a bit. Curves, levels. Created a duplicate layer, multiplied it, masked off the building to lighten it. Darkened the front posts just a hair.
When creating a black and white, you have to watch for tonal values. Two hues can have the same tonal value, flattening the image. This may look better in color...
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12/04/2005 09:06:41 AM · #4 |
| sorry, the color version is gone. |
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12/04/2005 09:15:33 AM · #5 |
Made a quick edit, used shadow/highlight, brightness/contrast, curves, usm, burn and dodge in no particular order.
Message edited by scalvert - Made image a thumbnail. |
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12/04/2005 09:15:41 AM · #6 |
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12/04/2005 09:16:39 AM · #7 |
Just a selection in Virtual Photographer
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12/04/2005 09:16:44 AM · #8 |
Here is my 2 cents...
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12/04/2005 09:46:08 AM · #9 |
a quick edit
You can also post the colored version. that should give us more options while converting to b&w
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12/04/2005 09:46:41 AM · #10 |
Ok here is my try.....
Transparent sepia layer over barn, airbrushed some color on the trees and field.
It is kind of a quick sloppy job, but you can see that if you took more time than I did....it might turn out kind of cool. I couldn't do anything with it as a bw only....sorry.
Message edited by author 2005-12-04 09:48:29. |
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12/04/2005 09:49:24 AM · #11 |
What about something like this... using dodge&burn to change the direction of the light. In the original it is low and to the right side. In this version, the light is also in front, lighting the house.
I also straighted the image and chopped off the top of the trees because of how weird the detail looked in the branches.
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12/04/2005 09:56:30 AM · #12 |
| If you shot in color, it would be a BIG help to post your original so we can convert from there. |
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12/04/2005 09:57:40 AM · #13 |
Very quick highlights/shadows:
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12/04/2005 10:03:05 AM · #14 |
Originally posted by JOHNBOY1970:
sorry, the color version is gone. |
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12/04/2005 10:16:39 AM · #15 |
| Rex, you wanted me to read the WHOLE thread?! C'mon, it was like 7 posts long! ;-) |
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12/04/2005 10:28:23 AM · #16 |
Originally posted by scalvert:
Rex, you wanted me to read the WHOLE thread?! C'mon, it was like 7 posts long! ;-) |
Nah I was just helpin you out and putting it at the bottom. That way you don't have to read it all. A free service provided by me when I see it.
Your welcome!!!!
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12/04/2005 10:39:10 AM · #17 |
- Selected the whites of the sky.
- Added blue sky with Nik Blue ND polarizer filter
- Changed the B&W toning with Fred Miranda B&W Pro to High Contrast B&W
- Upped the contrast significantly
- Made an elliptical selection
- Vignette action with 150px feather, black layer
- Burned the lower corners, dodged the house
- small USM to change the contrast
- Save for the web
Message edited by author 2005-12-04 10:41:23.
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12/04/2005 10:42:38 AM · #18 |
My old art teacher told me that sometimes less is more :-D
So....
What bothered me the most about this photo (A very good subject..lucky you ) was the fact that the vertical was off. Sometimes you get caught in a bind with a photo with fences or major leading lines or contours that confuse the vertical of the photo.
Fences or land contours can make you THINK that the photo should be leveled with them in mind BUT when you do, the vertical gets all off kilter.
Sometimes you just can't reconcile the difference and you have to eliminate one of the offending elements. In this case I felt the fence had to go to save the vertical nature of the barn and the trees.
So a recrop of the photo was in order first. Next I looked at each channel (Red, Green, Blue). In black and white photos I love to look at the three channels and find contrast in the channels. Red is my favorite for landscapes but green is better often for people.
I duplicated the layer, went to curves and s-curved the red channel to preference. Then I repeated this process for the green and blue channels.
Once I started to get the feeling that I had gotten all I could get from channel correcting I flattened and then made a new layer to dodge and burn. I did dodge and burning to seperate the barn from the background of trees. I like to be aggressive dodging and burning with an adjustment layer then change opacity to flavor.
After I got pretty much where I needed to be I looked and decided that to really highlight the barn and overall scene I wanted to go vertical instead of horizontal.
I changed the canvas size and blended the fake 'Blown" sky with the rest of the photo. This grounded the barn and the whole scene.
Here is the result. It needs more work with the blending of the sky to the original but you get the idea. :-D
Message edited by author 2005-12-04 10:55:39.
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12/04/2005 10:59:53 AM · #19 |
Originally posted by hokie:
My old art teacher told me that sometimes less is more :-D
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Less is more? Come on, that sounds so ...... hokie. :-)
Actually, I really like your version of the image. It seems so simple and it appears as if so little was done to the image, and yet the whole look and feel is different. It truly adds emphasis to the barn. Great idea! |
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12/04/2005 11:28:07 AM · #20 |
| Hokie, you are right concerning the shot being off on the horizonal, and I agree with every thing that you have done to make this shot look better. Thanks to all for the input, keep it coming. It is interesting to see the differnt approaches that each individual takes to make a photo appealing to his/her own eye. Mandy, I like the fact that you go outside of the lines to create something that is "your" style, it shows in all of your work, and sets you apart from the norm. |
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12/04/2005 11:33:28 AM · #21 |
You know, threads like this are what this site is all about :-D
It allows people to see the different flavors others bring to the same photo or scene.
I did a small retake on my submission.
All I did was go and add an adjustment layer, then with a gradient that used color burn and I changed the angle of the gradient so it was opaque toward the light and darker on the bottom left. It accentuates the wonderful light and I think I like it even better.
Here you go with my first one and the second one
First one
Second with one layer change
Message edited by author 2005-12-04 11:34:14.
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12/04/2005 11:51:18 AM · #22 |
| What an interesting old house. If you don't get the results you want with these editing, this would be worth a reshoot. That is if you have access to do it again. |
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12/04/2005 11:54:26 AM · #23 |
Really likw this shot...thought I'd like to try as well... :)
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12/04/2005 11:58:51 AM · #24 |
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12/04/2005 12:06:13 PM · #25 |
This old house is amazing. I darkened the shadows and the trees behind the house and lightened the vines and parks of the house.
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