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Some before and after photos of Charleville

  • 22-01-2007 9:26pm
    #1
    Fenster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,763 ✭✭✭


    Fajitas, put up that bloody guide on black and white. :p

    /aside

    Since I wound up being (mistakingly) feted as a Photoshop maestro, I got it into my head to put up a few before and after pictures from the castle, considering the amount of screwing around I did on them.

    These first two photos are both HDR, composed in Photoshop. I used three exposures, seperated by two stops. I didn't tone map...I do try for a slightly surreal feel to my photos, but tone mapping as it's usually used is just too tacky and weird for my tastes, these days. In putting them together, I tried to get a very bland look as I planned to bleach the photo. Any bright spots turn into blown out highlights and any dark spots turn into deep shadows, and using a HDR photo as a base gives me much more freedom to work on it.

    (Click for larger)

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    This took a lot of cloning, to remove the hose and brush, followed by straigtening, bleaching and dodge and burn (700px, 10% exposue) and painting through through the window from bleaching to bring back in it's fine details. I finished with my Velvia colour action to touch up the colours. It uses the channel mixer to put some punch into them, while being much more subtle than just cranking the saturation.

    The second photo was most of the same, with a lot of cloning on the brickwork to remove the plaster above the door. The regular pattern of the bricks was actually a kind of blessing, as it made is very easy to rapidly clone large areas.

    For this last photo, I used my opulence action. You simply copy the layer, apply a 10-point gaussian blur and then change the layer's blending (just double-click on the layer to get the menu) until you get something you're happy with. I use soft light myself. This honestly works best with photos that are slightly blurry to begin with, it adds a nice warm, contrasted and colourful feel. To finish, I apply an unsharp mask to bring back in fine detail.

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Comments

  • #2
    Fajitas!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,624 ✭✭✭✭Fajitas!


    Fenster wrote:
    Fajitas, put up that bloody guide on black and white. :p

    Bah, I'm busy! :p

    I'll do a bit of a "Fajitas all you need to know about B&W" when I get the chance though!

    Nice work there Fenster, you've got some great workflows.

    (You also have me convinced to buy a ruddy IR filter)


  • #3
    Valentia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,764 ✭✭✭Valentia


    Thanks for that Mark. At least I can follow it at my own pace now. :)


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