how about a random photo thread?

magicbastarder · 17-07-2007 8:07pm

ThOnda wrote:

magicsomething: the first one is amazing!

cheers; for the sake of comparison, here's the original scan, from velvia. i essentially just desaturated and darkened it a tad.

Fajitas! · 17-07-2007 8:19pm

Magic, would you mind if I had a quick go at the colour version in Photoshop? No worries if not!

magicbastarder · 17-07-2007 8:27pm

no problem whatsoever.
i'm up to my oxters scanning here, so that was just a quick and dirty job.

Fajitas! · 17-07-2007 8:53pm

Cheers, I just did a colour version now couldn't get it looking exactly how I wanted, but it has great potential for B&W...

Also would have made a great IR shot, white grass & reflections with a pretty black water & sky... Nice work!

magicbastarder · 17-07-2007 8:58pm

cheers - i may scan it again, and play with the gain, might get more detail out of the sky. i've more shots from that lake, between 1 and 8 seconds long.

rahtkennades · 17-07-2007 9:02pm

shutterclick wrote:

love this thread. another random one. one of my personal favourites.

Shutterclick, that's a great shot. Is there any way you can bring the swan into it a bit better? Not sure, it just seems to blend in a bit... maybe it's my monitor?

ThOnda · 17-07-2007 9:12pm

You've been there, you saw it, you took a picture, you were willing to play with it...
Great job.

shutterclick · 17-07-2007 9:38pm

rahtkennades wrote:

Shutterclick, that's a great shot. Is there any way you can bring the swan into it a bit better? Not sure, it just seems to blend in a bit... maybe it's my monitor?

thanks. yeah i know .. there is something a bit off about it, but thats the best i could do with it at the time. the original was a bit overexposed so the swan was a bit blown out. its a couple of years old, that shot.

Fajitas! · 17-07-2007 9:39pm

magicbastarder wrote:

cheers - i may scan it again, and play with the gain, might get more detail out of the sky. i've more shots from that lake, between 1 and 8 seconds long.

Even in the low res one there, there's plenty of detail in the blue's of the sky. Should be loads to play with!