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C&C Sleeping Angel

  • 25-11-2006 7:28pm
    #1
    B0rG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 465 ✭✭


    I was out on the streets the other day and...


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  • #2
    Morlar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,273 ✭✭✭Morlar


    Is that a natural depth of field ? The reason I ask is that the background seems noisy. Also could I ask what processing did you do on it in photoshop ?


  • #3
    B0rG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 465 ✭✭B0rG


    nope, lens was 17-40, you can't get any bokeh from that.

    photoshop...
    basic cleanup (patch, spot healing, etc)
    Contrast with layers
    duplicate layer, lens blur + noise (cause it seemed like a good idea at the time)
    erase angel from the blurred layer
    add curves to angel
    darken bg to make the angel stand up
    patch light bleaks with brightness contrast layer
    overall patchup
    crop
    resize

    kinda like that...


  • #4
    Tarakiwa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 633 ✭✭✭Tarakiwa


    Amazing how some people make a living ...........


  • #5
    B0rG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 465 ✭✭B0rG


    Tarakiwa wrote:
    Amazing how some people make a living ...........

    difficult? Yesss...

    Here the world is real, and the angel is not.

    https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/496/35943.jpg

    And to comletely destroy all the magic here's the original.

    https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/496/35944.jpg

    ps... I'm so slow today...


  • #6
    paudie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 494 ✭✭paudie


    I don't think you should have left the lamp post in. Does nothing for it really.

    I really don't much about PS, but would using a Gaussian blur work on the background? More asking rather than a suggestion.


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  • #7
    B0rG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 465 ✭✭B0rG


    paudie wrote:
    I don't think you should have left the lamp post in. Does nothing for it really.
    I really don't much about PS, but would using a Gaussian blur work on the background? More asking rather than a suggestion.

    Lamp post is questionable I agree. I left it in for vertical reasons - as without it the horizon will fall. With the lamp post it gives a sense of vertical.

    Post process is too heavy, I agree, but at this stage it hides a lot of mistakes in the original image :)

    I've tried Gaussian in the first version of an image, then tried Lense Blur, and I liked it more - esp for the grain effect


  • #8
    Dimy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 709 ✭✭✭Dimy


    Sorry but the picture doesn't work for me, the composition/crop isn't very well chosen and the photoshopped blur just doesn't look natural.
    I think if you would have taken the shot of just her head and upper part of her torso you'd have a much stronger image, and of course at a wide apperture so you don't have to photoshop the blur effect.


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