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Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D

11/28/2005 12:47:58 PM · #1

Just a spontaneous shot, I was lying on the floor in the basement of the university center while my friend was checking his mail, and he came over to ask me why I was lying on the floor, and in response I took a picture of him:

//modgethanc.com/transience/watchingOverYou--remix.jpg

My camera chews stuff up sometimes, thus the heavy grain from when I tried to adjust the levels. I'm somewhat fond of the dark and grainy look on occasion. Salvaged what I could with a lot of burning and a little dodging, a tiny bit of selective desat to keep the yellow glow just where I want it, cropped out things like walls and other people that got distracting.

Thanks to everyone who've been leaving comments for me...I don't like spamming up my own thread by having every other post, but your comments are being well-taken and appreciated :)

wavelength

Nikon D300

11/28/2005 12:50:07 PM · #2

to judge a dodge/burn effort, it would be most helpful to see the original

11/28/2005 01:00:41 PM · #3

I think this would work a lot better if you rotated it to portrait orientation.

Robt.

11/28/2005 01:16:50 PM · #4

//modgethanc.com/transience/watchingOverYou--remix--rot.jpg Rotated?

//modgethanc.com/transience/watchingOverYou.jpg And the original.

11/28/2005 01:19:42 PM · #5

Much better, yah. It seems perverse to have it sideways. Okay with you if I play with the original?

R.

11/28/2005 01:21:37 PM · #6

Originally posted by bear_music:

Much better, yah. It seems perverse to have it sideways. Okay with you if I play with the original?

R.

Go nuts :)

11/28/2005 01:40:15 PM · #7

The following version is done with NO dodge & burn; contrast masking, flatten image, select and save selection on lights, invert selection, levels, hue/sat and selective color on everything but lights, load light selection, same thing on lights, save, flatten image, save as new version, neat image, USM, resize, save for web.

Robt.

Message edited by author 2005-11-28 13:49:42.

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 ED

11/28/2005 01:46:21 PM · #8

Surreal, nuclearactive. Sweet :D

Rae-Ann

Fujifilm FinePix S9000

11/28/2005 01:47:18 PM · #9

bear_music, I love your work...I have been lurking around here for a few weeks, and I am always impressed by your helpful nature and, sheesh look how you made this shot rawk!! I love this one. I am thinking if I need any PS help you may be the guy I ask!
Guys like you make this a great community...thanks

Apple iPhone 5

11/28/2005 01:50:02 PM · #10

Originally posted by bear_music:

Robt.

I'll have a shot of whatever he's drinking...

11/28/2005 01:51:57 PM · #11

Originally posted by Rae-Ann:

I'm good for photoshop basics, but there are many better than me for really far-out photoshopping, like superimpsing images and such. Thanks for the kind words.

R.