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02/13/2006 04:59:40 PM · #1 |
Hey gang,
I had NO time last week to shoot for this challenge. We did get a whack of snow last week, and I do live in a small town, so I grabbed this shot...
I wasn't happy with it, and I decided to show my maturity as a photographer by not entering a crappy shot. The biggest problem, I think, is that there's a lot of small detail in the shot that gets lost with the resize to 640.
I'm still interested in learning, though, so I'd appreciate any comments that anyone cares to give... including "You made the right choice by not entering this." :)
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02/13/2006 05:01:58 PM · #2 |
Well, to be honest, since you asked...
"You made the right choice by not entering this."
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02/13/2006 05:03:41 PM · #3 |
My first impression of this picture is it is very flat. I feel the trees get kind of muddled up, and then the nice detail of the fence going through the picture gets lost.
The nice details of the snow on the branches also seem lost. If you wanted to submit to gain a high score, I think you did well not to (IMHO). I'd be curious to know your PP steps on this. It feels like a bump in contrast, and maybe a different way of converting to B&W would have given this a bit more oomph
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02/13/2006 05:23:44 PM · #4 |
That's what I was looking for. Thanks MadMan, that's exactly what I wanted. I can take it. :)
Pidge, there actually is a pretty good bump in contrast already... any more and you loose the definition between the trees...
I did just do a simple desaturation in RAW to make it a B&W, I quite honestly didn't have time to try any other method. I'll play around with the channels and luminosity and see what happens. Thanks for the suggestions.
The full size original looks much better, but still not incredible. :(
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02/13/2006 05:45:04 PM · #5 |
If you have the chance, and you have PS, try desat with either the channel mixer (check monochrome and then fiddle with the sliders) or try this one:
Step 1: Add a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer. Don't adjust any of the sliders.
Step 2: Add another Hue/Saturation adjustment layer. Don't adjust any of the sliders.
Step 3: Open up the layers palette.
Step 4: In the layers palette, single click on the top adjustment layer
Step 5: In the layers palette, change the blending mode for this layer from Normal to Color
Step 6: Double click on the Hue/Saturation icon in the top adjustment layer. This will bring up the window with the Hue/Saturation sliders.
Step 7: Drag the Saturation slider as far as you can to the left. This will strip the colour out of the image. Click OK.
Step 8: Now double click on Hue/Saturation icon in the lower adjustment layer to bring up its window with sliders.
Step 9: Move the Hue slider to the left or to the right. As you move this slider, you will see that some of the tones darken, others will lighten. Keep playing with this slider until you like what you see. Click OK.
Step 10: Flatten the image
Step 11: Convert to grayscale.
The second way was sent to me by Martin Cole. His photography column occasionally gets published in the paper, and he said email if you are interested in a nice B&W conversion method in PS, so there you go. I know others around here use this method as well
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