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Australia
A lonely life (8)
ein22
![Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 123 W: 2 N: 74]](http://i1.trekearth.com/misc/g-n-g.gif) (422) |
foreground exposure | rui_seabra
![Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Note Writer [C: 58 W: 7 N: 36]](http://i1.trekearth.com/misc/g-n-s.gif) (205) [2007-01-18 10:22:57] [4] | Among other things I played with the shadow/highlights...
I increased the shadows alot, to bring the foreground back to life ;-P and also increased the highlights - just 2% - to try to simulate the polarizing filter effect on the clouds...
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United States
Birthday Mailboxes (16) *
Misdemeana (73) |
dodge&burn + clean | | rui_seabra
(205) [2007-01-03 10:57:05] | First I did some cleaning, clone stamping over the scratches... Afterwards I did some dodge&burn, darkening some of the clouds and lightening the mailboxes' poles...
A small white frame was added
Hope you like it
Rui Seabra
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Russia
Russian Orthodox Church (20) *
woodham18 (29) |
tilt + dodge&burn | | rui_seabra
(205) [2007-01-03 10:52:51] [1] | I tilted the image, cropped, adjusted shadows&highlights, did some dodge&burn and added the small frame...
only afterwards did I notice that there were already 2 WS for this photo...
oh whell... I posted mine anyway...
Rui Seabra
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Jordan
Mighty Rumm towers above Landrover (30) *
paulartus
![Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 99 W: 21 N: 147]](http://i1.trekearth.com/misc/g-s-g.gif) (824) |
Burn and dodge + reframing | | rui_seabra
(205) [2007-01-02 06:51:41] | As I said in my comment, I would have used a different framing for this photo, and that is what I tried to exemplify with this WS.
First I addressed other issue I wasn't very confortable with: The pale sky and mountain. I added a second layer and filled it with 50% grey. I sellected "soft light" as the blend mode. I then, selected this grey layer (which by now shouldn´t be visible) and then selected the brush tool. I then added low oppacity blacks and whites: blacks in the sky and mountais to make them darker and whites on the sand and jeep to make them whiter, and simulate the burning heat.
After "straightening" the photo I cropped it: a bit in the left, and a lot to the right - in my oppinion the second mountain wasn't adding a lot to the photo (one mountain is enough ;-P).
The finishing touch was a white frame with 10% of the smallest width.
Hope you like it
Rui Seabra
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Portugal
Fisher (1)
khafes
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Unsharp + Desaturate | | rui_seabra
(205) [2006-11-24 16:59:50] [1] | As promissed before, here's my view on this photo. I chose to desaturate it because the colours where already not the main thing on the picture.
First I cropped the image to exclude the shadow in the bottom and some space to the left and up. Afterwards I changed the color space to lab color and applied a 70% unsharp mask to the lightness channel. I then changed the colour space back to RGB and used the desaturate option. Minor changes where the applied: highlights (+7%); brightness (-5%) and contrast (+20%).
To finish it I increased the canvas size by 10% of the smaller length to create the white frame and resized the picture to 600 px in the larger length so that it fits in a regular screen.
All these where done using Photoshop.
Hope you like it
Rui Seabra
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Portugal
BAR > (4)
rui_seabra
(205) |
Different crop | | rui_seabra
(205) [2006-11-12 05:37:32] | With this different crop I tried to use the whole shadow...
Do you think I should crop a little in the left? |
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Australia
Black vs green (6)
rui_seabra
(205) |
Crop | | rui_seabra
(205) [2006-10-18 06:32:40] | Cropped to offcentre the insect.
Rui Seabra
Portugal |
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Portugal
Memory II (÷)
rui_seabra
(205) |
Moon | | rui_seabra
(205) [2006-10-16 05:14:20] | | Could I have captured the moon in a better way? How? |
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Australia
Dunes (12)
rui_seabra
(205) |
Cropped | | rui_seabra
(205) [2006-10-14 07:53:32] | Following the sugestion of propofol I cropped the bottom of the image to dispose of the "out-of-focus" vegetation.
I might add that it seems to have turned out really nice...
Thanks to propofol
Rui Seabra
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France
Espingo (19)
captain_banana (38) |
Photoshop | | rui_seabra
(205) [2006-10-07 17:32:39] [1] | I used photoshop to:
. Reduce slightly the brightness
. Increase slightly the contrast
. Teak the "shadows" and "highlights"
. Adjust the "levels" cutting on the darks
. Remove the frame
The image quality is a bit worse due to the fact that I worked over the image you posted, which is already relatively low on resolution due to the limits of size... still, I hope you liked it.
Rui Seabra
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