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[Lady Day]

I just finished a rather laborious project, and now I am free to work on my own stuff!

Here is one character design I just completed in Illustrator for a soon to be web comic!

LD

 

[BellyTank]

More...

Using variations on what I have discovered is close to the digital version of "Orton Imagery", used to give a painterly, impressionistic style to nature photography by having 2 images and overlaying them- both are "overexposed", one blurred, layed over the other and then mixed together. Photoshop, of course- Im using 7.
I use a lot of the "selective colour" adjustment tool, in IMAGE>ADJUSTMENTS, to enhance, reduce, or exclude some of the colour spectrum- selectively adjust saturation, clean whites, blacken blacks. That and LEVELS, in IMAGE>ADJUSTMENTS for more selective contrast and lighting tweaks.
If I'm going to print photos and put them on the wall, I like to do stuff to them first...
I'm just a doodler.

Shattered shatterproof glass-

Autumn Oak with flash to the sky-

Doll like-

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[AmateisGal]

GORGEOUS photos, BT.

 

[Quigley Brown]

Spotted this odd cloud while walking through the city park yesterday morning.

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[BellyTank]

Quigley-
how did you make that photo look like a postcard..?
Or did you...

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[MrNewportCustom]

Miss Day! That is awesome!!

LEVELS, in IMAGE>ADJUSTMENTS for more selective contrast and lighting tweaks.

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BT. Great work!

Have you tried Curves (ctrl-M), yet? If you haven't, do. I use both Levels and Curves, using the former first and then tweaking a bit more with the latter, if necessary. You can be even more precise this way, because you're not limited if the histogram is heavy to one side.

For instance, the image below is low-key and properly exposed. But, in it's original form it was too light and lacking contrast. The histogram was extremely heavy on the left side, with a low strip barely making it past the midtones pointer. When I processed it, I didn't even look at the Levels (until today lol), because I knew I could not do much with it. So, I went straight to Curves and darkened the background while lightening the chrome trident and "stars" a bit.

QB. I have an entire folder filled with cloud shots. Here are some I saw while driving back from San Diego a few weeks ago. I shot about twenty frames from a gas station and this one became my favorite.

Lee

 

[BellyTank]

Yep, I know about Curves- was just making some easy notes for anyone unfamiliar with the Shop, who wants to try their hand.

Thanks,

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[MrNewportCustom]

I shoulda known you would! One can't play with Photoshop for more than about a month without learning about them thar Curves. lol


Lee

 

[Quigley Brown]

Quigley-
how did you make that photo look like a postcard..?
Or did you...

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All I did was tweak the color a bit...made the sky more blue and the grass more green.

 

[Quigley Brown]

QB. I have an entire folder filled with cloud shots. Here are some I saw while driving back from San Diego a few weeks ago. I shot about twenty frames from a gas station and this one became my favorite.

Lee

You should submit it to The Cloud Appreciation Society. I have a few in their collection.

http://www.cloudappreciationsociety.org/

 

[BellyTank]

All I did was tweak the color a bit...made the sky more blue and the grass more green.

It looks kinda "compresed", or something. Looks a bit like a model.
Did you do the "model thing" to it?
Curious.


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[Quigley Brown]

It looks kinda "compresed", or something. Looks a bit like a model.
Did you do the "model thing" to it?
Curious.


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Nope. The image is untouched other than the color saturation.

 

[Kim_B]

Pinhole photographs - new school

My new photography project for a display coming up in February...

New school in that these were taken with a digital camera that I altered...

 

[MrNewportCustom]

I like the second one, Kim. How did you alter your camera for this?

Here are a couple from this morning, at Santa Anita.

Lee

 

[Kim_B]

I like the second one, Kim. How did you alter your camera for this?

Lee

Thanks! Simply enough, all you have to do is "poke" a hole in the center of a body cap (the ones that go on the camera when you have no lens attached) - this one I used a nail to get the hole started, and once I got through enough of the plastic I used a larger safety pin to break the rest of the way through and smooth out the hole a bit. Threw the camera on Manual and went to town. I have an extra cap so I think the next one I make will have a slightly larger hole.

 

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[MrNewportCustom]

I was visited by one Captain Jacobi, today. Poor fellow died on the spot.

Here's what he brought to me.

And one in color:

As I was posting the two above, I saw my fedora and decided to shoot some more. Here is the result.

Lee

 

[MrNewportCustom]

Reshot. This time using strobes. (They arrived Thursday. I used the strobe modeling lights for the previous shots.)

Lee

 

[Quigley Brown]

Very nice, MrNewport. Playing with the lighting is fun, isn't it?

 

[Quigley Brown]

A severe storm rolled through the area last night. This is in the city park two blocks from where I live.

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