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12/13/2006 01:18:51 PM · #26
Originally posted by albc28:

I'm confused as to what you mean that it was too much about death. The topic was death, so it got scored lower because it covered the topic too much? I thought it explored the topic very well and was a pleasing photo technically as well. i expected this to be the top choice.


albc28, meet sarcasm. Sarcasm, meet albc28.

edited to add a VERY BIG SMILIE :)

Message edited by author 2006-12-13 14:05:36.
12/13/2006 02:51:56 PM · #27
Originally posted by posthumous:

Originally posted by albc28:

I'm confused as to what you mean that it was too much about death. The topic was death, so it got scored lower because it covered the topic too much? I thought it explored the topic very well and was a pleasing photo technically as well. i expected this to be the top choice.


albc28, meet sarcasm. Sarcasm, meet albc28.

edited to add a VERY BIG SMILIE :)


haha...nice to meet you sarcasm.
12/13/2006 03:56:31 PM · #28
well, the sunset shot is a landscape and it scored 17th from the bottom, so landscapes don't always score well. I should know... it was my photo. I guess I forgot that the message has to slap people in the face within two seconds and symbolism doesn't do so well.

Anyway...

I want to thank albc28 for not just saying it was DNMC, but commenting on the technicals, I really appreciated that. Two others, kawana and pccjrose gave some input on the photo's technical quality as well. Thanks :)
12/14/2006 05:26:03 PM · #29
Buzzy, when you asked about Julia's pic and how she got it, I wanted to ask the same question out of curiosity as well.

Julia, how on earth did you get the dress red like that without using a selection tool??? I've been trying to figure out how you did that!! I have yet to figure out how to do that without using a selection tool.

12/14/2006 05:35:50 PM · #30
I'm not sure if this is how Jutilda did it, but here is a tutorial for basic editing legal selective desat.

Tutorial
12/14/2006 05:44:03 PM · #31
I've done mine in the past with lots of Selective Color adjustment layers, and a number of slight shifts in Color Balance and Hue/Sat and sometimes Levels in the RBG channels. Usually some combination of these things in a zillion layers.

But look at the scene. The likelihood of anything besides the dress being red is pretty low. So you desat everything but the red channel, then use Color Balance to shift it into sepia hues, which is just going to emphasize the red of the dress even more. From there you tweak it a bit in hue/sat to get the dress to the right shade. That's a rather simple approach, anyway.

Message edited by author 2006-12-14 17:44:45.
12/14/2006 05:55:04 PM · #32
Well, other than the fact that I had the best shot by far and did not win... (more sarcasm!)

My top 2 picks were:
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12/14/2006 06:13:22 PM · #33
I was disapointed in how my entry did. I geuss it was because of the voters not knowing what seppuku was and aparantly not meeting challenge.

12/14/2006 06:52:41 PM · #34
Originally posted by Emenresu:

I was disapointed in how my entry did. I guess it was because of the voters not knowing what seppuku was and aparantly not meeting challenge.


I also thought this would have done better, I was a high voter on this image.
12/14/2006 09:49:27 PM · #35
Actually, I'm pretty sure death results in not living anymore...
12/14/2006 10:35:58 PM · #36
Juliadavis,
I have been here a while now and I was THRILLED when I made 8th! Getting in the top 20 is amazingly difficult. The fact you got 6th on your first try makes me amazingly jellous! Be amazingly happy with that score!

My entry scored much higher than I expected it would. I am an out of the box kinda person but this went waaaay out of the box for even me.
I had planned on doing a 'life' shot all week when I was doing a concept shot for 'Icey Stare' (on the last day) It triggered a thought about my father. He passed away suddenly earlier this year. He was an organ doner and the cancer had damaged everything except his eyes. Now 2 people have the gift of sight thru the most amazing blue eyes I have ever seen. This shot is of halloween candy that was horrible! And in odd colors so I had to go with b&w to make it look more real.
unfortunately the candy started to disolve in the icewater before freezing so you couldn't see the eyes. so I broke the ice cubes up.
I just wanted to explain it a little. I don't really care about how this one scored, it was meaningful to me.


12/15/2006 01:42:45 PM · #37
Originally posted by xstream:

I'm not sure if this is how Jutilda did it, but here is a tutorial for basic editing legal selective desat.

Tutorial


Thanks xstream - a very nice tutorial :)
12/16/2006 03:31:00 AM · #38
for everyone wondering how i did my picture
i desaturated everything but the red dress and added sepia.
nothing special. oh and i darkened it a bit
12/17/2006 12:03:33 PM · #39
Originally posted by Juliadavis:

for everyone wondering how i did my picture
i desaturated everything but the red dress and added sepia.
nothing special. oh and i darkened it a bit


The tutorial was great, but Julia, I was wondering when you say that you desaturated everything BUT, the red dress....how did you separate the red dress from everything else and still get such a vibrant color? I have tried this method as a learning experience with the tutorial posted in here and I cannot get that much of a vibrant red to one specific area, without leaving some color in the rest of the shot. I'd love to learn how to do what you did.

Could you explain a bit further?
12/17/2006 12:24:04 PM · #40
Originally posted by PhotoInterest:

Originally posted by Juliadavis:

for everyone wondering how i did my picture
i desaturated everything but the red dress and added sepia.
nothing special. oh and i darkened it a bit


The tutorial was great, but Julia, I was wondering when you say that you desaturated everything BUT, the red dress....how did you separate the red dress from everything else and still get such a vibrant color? I have tried this method as a learning experience with the tutorial posted in here and I cannot get that much of a vibrant red to one specific area, without leaving some color in the rest of the shot. I'd love to learn how to do what you did.

Could you explain a bit further?


I can't speak for her, but look at the scene - what else in the photo would have been red? You just go into hue/sat and desaturate every channel but red. Then use color balance to shift into sepia, which being a red tone itself enhances the dress even more.
12/17/2006 10:39:57 PM · #41
Originally posted by karmabreeze:

Originally posted by PhotoInterest:

Originally posted by Juliadavis:

for everyone wondering how i did my picture
i desaturated everything but the red dress and added sepia.
nothing special. oh and i darkened it a bit


The tutorial was great, but Julia, I was wondering when you say that you desaturated everything BUT, the red dress....how did you separate the red dress from everything else and still get such a vibrant color? I have tried this method as a learning experience with the tutorial posted in here and I cannot get that much of a vibrant red to one specific area, without leaving some color in the rest of the shot. I'd love to learn how to do what you did.

Could you explain a bit further?


I can't speak for her, but look at the scene - what else in the photo would have been red? You just go into hue/sat and desaturate every channel but red. Then use color balance to shift into sepia, which being a red tone itself enhances the dress even more.


Thank you Karma........just tried it the way that you described it there with a red rose photo and I can now do it!

I'm new to this and just couldn't get it and now, I can do it too. Thank you for helping me learn!
12/20/2006 11:07:35 AM · #42
Originally posted by Emenresu:

I was disapointed in how my entry did. I geuss it was because of the voters not knowing what seppuku was and aparantly not meeting challenge.


i ADORED your photo. . .one of the few 10s i gave in voting.

don't be disheartened. it was a great choice for the challenge!
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