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 03/27/2006 10:34:56 PM · #1
I am just wondering if anyone can offer an opinion about what happened here?? The tone/color of the upper half is different from that of the bottom half.

Edit to add this note: Is it the subject and background both impacted, or is it just the building? This building may have been under water for Hurricane Rita.



Message edited by author 2006-03-27 22:36:14.
 03/27/2006 10:36:55 PM · #2
You dipped the bottom half in bleach? (really, I dunno unless you ran some kind of hue/sat adjustment on just the bottom half of the picture)
 03/27/2006 10:37:53 PM · #3
Graduated filter? :p
 03/27/2006 10:39:22 PM · #4
What did it look like to you? Is it like this in real life?

The person does not seem affected.
 03/27/2006 10:39:24 PM · #5
Could it just be shadow cast from the roof? That would explain the difference... the roof could block light like that, depending on the angle of the sun... if you look between the steps, the shadows are close in color to the top of the wall.

It looks like there may have been some water damage, because you can see the water line on the wall as well. But I don't know that that's affecting it.

Edit: His hands are brighter than his face, which leads me to think it's just the roof thing.

Message edited by author 2006-03-27 22:40:18.
 03/27/2006 10:39:35 PM · #6
Looks like there may be some shadowing from the roof above?
 03/27/2006 10:40:18 PM · #7
was he under some sort of an overhang? perhaps the bottom is more direct sunlight, with the top mixing in shadow and reflecting light from what could perhaps be a yellowish ceiling material?
 03/27/2006 10:43:06 PM · #8
I'd say it is simply bleaching from the sun. The roof shields the top part, the bottom looks exactly the way that unpainted timber looks when exposed to sun.

The person isn't affected, and any difference of light on HIM is simply due to reflection - the different light temperature of the wood in the ceiling, unaffected by the sun.
 03/27/2006 10:45:42 PM · #9
Dipped the picture in bleach? Hmm...is that a filter in PSE? Kidding! No, there were no edits done whatsoever to this photo.

No filters were used when shooting the image.

I really didn't noticed that it looked like this in real life. He was on a porch.

I noticed there was a difference between the shadows and the face as well, I just didn't know if it was obvious.

It's just interesting to me that it caused such a dramatic difference from top to bottom.
 03/27/2006 10:50:14 PM · #10
I would tend to agree with Beetle and others that the differences in colour are wholly attributable to the effect of the sun on the wood. When one looks at the window, the relection of a deck or overhang is clearly visible.

Ray
 03/27/2006 10:55:12 PM · #11
I can see now when I look at the other images the differences from top to bottom. Thank you for your posts. Here are others to compare....



Message edited by author 2006-03-27 22:55:42.
 03/27/2006 11:00:36 PM · #12
it's hard to tell with a black subject in the forground but his suit does look a little blue-er in the bottom. Is it possible it has to do with the overhang I can see from the window? Maybe it's natural... either way, pretty simple to fix :0)
 03/27/2006 11:02:08 PM · #13
Originally posted by oOWonderBreadOo:
it's hard to tell with a black subject in the forground but his suit does look a little blue-er in the bottom. Is it possible it has to do with the overhang I can see from the window? Maybe it's natural... either way, pretty simple to fix :0)


I do agree, I believe it is from the overhang now that it is called to my attention??

Simple to fix?? In post processing?
 03/27/2006 11:30:02 PM · #14
how many images do you need to fix?
 03/27/2006 11:46:25 PM · #15
May I ask if flash was used and what was the shutter speed used? It almost looks like shutter sync issues to me. Because, not only is there a bleaching on part of the photos, but a difference in white balance.

Message edited by author 2006-03-27 23:50:18.
 03/27/2006 11:53:01 PM · #16

a stab at it...

Message edited by author 2006-03-27 23:53:38.
 03/28/2006 12:22:58 AM · #17
woooh...impressive. I think it's time for me to get a class in Photoshop! I don't have many to work on. The two I posted that have obvious issues may actually be the only ones.

Here is the exif information:

ExposureTime : 1/80Sec
FNumber : F3.5
ISOSpeedRatings : 100
ExifVersion : 0221
DateTimeOriginal : 2006:03:26 13:07:08
DateTimeDigitized : 2006:03:26 13:07:08
ComponentConfiguration : YCbCr
CompressedBitsPerPixel : 3/1 (bit/pixel)
ShutterSpeedValue : 1/80Sec
ApertureValue : F3.5
ExposureBiasValue : EV0.0
MaxApertureValue : F3.5
MeteringMode : Division
Flash : Not fired
FocalLength : 35.00(mm)
03/28/2006 12:33:13 AM · #18
Funny, but I just re-processed my current entry to attain almost exactly that look. I created a gradient in an alpha channel, then used that as a mask for an adjustment layer with Hue/Saturation, and de-saturated the unmasked part.
 03/28/2006 09:11:01 PM · #19
Originally posted by oOWonderBreadOo:

a stab at it...


Okay...how'd you do it? I would like to accomplish this myself of course. I learn best from doing. Anyone care to give instruction on this???
 03/28/2006 09:40:14 PM · #20
thought you might ask so I snapped this before I exited.


1. dupe layer
2. dupe layer
3. extraction tool
everything else you see in the workflow. all the hue & sat or color balance was applied to the middle layer so the guy wouldn't be affected (hence the extraction!) and I think it was all on the yellow or clue/cyan channels.
If you need help on the quickmask PM me & I'll give you a quick lesson. Took me forever to figure it out.
(BTW I never took a PS class either half this stuff I learned as a photo editor as the world went digital and the other half right here!) :0)
 03/28/2006 09:41:00 PM · #21
I would agree either light cast for the lower half or bleaching of the wood due to it being exposed to the sunlight more than the upper covered half
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