For those that asked for details on processing on yesterdays shot, Fires, roughly the same as this:
Desaturate
adj. layer for levels
adj. layer for contrast
adj. layer for hue/sat. set to colorize adjust hue to get the brownish tint and desat to taste. I also set blending mode to normal and 64% in this case with inner shadow selected as an effect. You can control the amount of sepia obtained fairly easily by using the blending mode.
goto background and preceed to burn/dodge, burn elements you want fade into background and dodge elements you want viewer to focus on. I use a fairly large brush (300-400 pixel, and select the fuzzy brush so the effect is less noticeable, also set the exposure to around 4-6 percent, or less if this is having too great of an effect, yes it is time consuming, lol)
After an hour or so (I'm new to this so I am sure someone more experienced could do it in like 5-10 minutes) resize for web.
As an aside, I may have went a little overboard with this one but I like the effect so...
Hope this helps!!
Oh I almost forgot, on yesterdays I also did a duplicate background layer for sharpen (as it was a bit hazy around the edges and then ran a smart blur at like 28 on radius and 32% on threshold, this gave it that sort of I don't know, smoothing effect, for lack of a better term, lol.
in my portfolio is a (one of my very early,very bad shots) of a church that the hospital i work for tore down to build a new ER, the structure was VERY similar to this one...nice shot,very gloomy effect
Um can you do a pictorial book for dummies on the processing you did? lol. I am gonna have to print this out and go thru it step by step - I'm a poor reader, what can I say?
Love the mood you created with the pic. You've added drama and depth with your processing. Like it!
It takes me forever, too, so you're not alone! I like the processing steps and will give it a try on something. And did you mean smart blur or smart sharpen in the last part? Per Jon's comment, you could always try cloning the pole and the line if you don't like them there, though I'm warning you - cloning takes FOREVER in some cases! And the healing brush works pretty well on powerlines.
Shoot what a great church and image. Some top PP going on there. love the contrast against the sky tht gives the church a real imposing (and possibly doom laden) air about it
Almost tempted to suggest it could be cropped a bit tighter to lose the telegraph pole on the left and the small building on the right, but this might actually detract from the overall effect as given that these are both relatively small keeping them in heightens the impression that this church dominates everything
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