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Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 83 |
Mar 20 |
Reply |
Lance
I wondered about the harsh shadow on some of the petals. Therefore, I removed it on a couple to create less distraction on the leaves but did not remove it from the background. Thus dimension and the message of high light variability is retained.
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Mar 24th |
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| 83 |
Mar 20 |
Comment |
Lance
I am glad you said this is not one of your favorite images. For me, it is not an image I would spend more time improving.
With your tones, you have captured a light airy mood. However, I find the background both lighting and complexity distracting taking attention away from the flower.
My vision was to retain the ethereal feel of the flower, focus attention on the flower and remove distractions.
First I cropped to remove distractions and then selected the flower and inversed the selection. Then I reduced the background exposure, blurred it, and selectively burned and cloned. On the flower, I dodged and cloned the dark petal top. I then added a contrast layer in luminosity blend mode, used convolution sharpening on the flower only. I took the image back into LR, and reduced the highlights globally to bring out more flower texture.
For me, this was a good lesson in the difficulty of photographing flowers with uneven lighting and complex backgrounds and then doing a monochrome conversion.
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Mar 24th |
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| 83 |
Mar 20 |
Comment |
Georgianne
Thanks for the detailed description. I will use your description to emulate the steps.
When I watched Matt Klowskoski's free webinars last week, he mentioned that the person who developed Nik Silver Effex developed the Lightroom monochrome presets.
I too love cross country skiing. Mt. Washington on Vancouver Island had 60+ km of groomed trails, some of them quite steep, long and challenging. I would careen down and puff up the hills using my back country skis with metal edges to slow down, turn, or stop. In London, I switched to winter hiking with icers and snow shoeing. What surprised me at Gibbons where the land is flat, was that I did not see snow shoe or icer tracks instead only cross country tracks. |
Mar 23rd |
| 83 |
Mar 20 |
Comment |
Debasish
Welcome to our group.
I like the mood, composition, tonal range in this image.
The distant haze adds dimension.
You may consider dodging the mid section of the back pier to bring out more detail in it.
JPS |
Mar 22nd |
| 83 |
Mar 20 |
Comment |
Georgios and Lance
I recognize that I should not reedit the image. However, I have suggested some edits which for me help focus my attention on the nun.
I apologize. I have been doing light painting for the past two months and now into the Greg Benz dodge and burn course so that when I look at images, I now ask myself "Where is the light? How can I use the light and dodging and burning to tell the story?".
For me to focus on the nun, I did a quick selection on the sky, filled the selection with black, and dialed down the opacity. Then I took the image into Nik Color Effex, and used the pro contrast filter to bump up the contrast overall. Back in PS, I drew a lasso around the woman that also lightened the area where she would be walking. Then using a dodge and burn layer, I dodged the stairs and also the rocks where she would walk. Because the sun was coming from behind her, I dodged the back part of her body to lighten her. With the dodging, I emphasized the relationship between the door, the walking woman, and intention.
My sky selection is poor but illustrates the concept.
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Mar 22nd |
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| 83 |
Mar 20 |
Comment |
Georgios
Welcome to our group.
Your title indicates the nun is the focal point. However, when I look at this image, the white in the sky and building completely draw my attention, not the nun. A tighter and different crop might draw more attention to the nun.
JPS |
Mar 21st |
| 83 |
Mar 20 |
Reply |
Dirk
I saw your title. In color it is blue liquid. What title would you use for BW?
JPS |
Mar 21st |
| 83 |
Mar 20 |
Comment |
Lance
Do the trees seem brighter in this revision.
I used a luminosity selection and dodged the trees. Then, with another selection, I burned the shadows in the snow and ski tracts to create the deeper shadow that Dirk suggested.
This reduces the contrast. The sky remains the same tone a before.
I retained my crop so you could see the changes in the tree branches.
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Mar 20th |
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| 83 |
Mar 20 |
Comment |
Dirk
Thanks for your proposal.
I like your revised crop and editing which emphasizes the snow and shadows.
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Mar 19th |
| 83 |
Mar 20 |
Comment |
Debasish
I reedited this image four times until I was satisfied with it. In this final version, my goal was to have the side lighting camera left from the setting sun cross the image and fade out and to keep the highlights from the setting sun.
JPS |
Mar 13th |
| 83 |
Mar 20 |
Comment |
Georgiannw
I like how your monochrome conversion has created an old world charm to this images and also the use of light.
I am not familiar with textures and wondered how the image would look if the texture was applied only to the building and not the sky.
Are there any rules about using textures?
JPS |
Mar 11th |
| 83 |
Mar 20 |
Comment |
Dirk
Your image is so playful and I like how the splashes in the different images cross over into the next. It makes a beautiful composition. Also, I like your angle and how you were able to eliminate (I assume) streaks in the glasses. That is quite a challenge.
I am curious what the color version looked like.
My only suggestion, nothing with the BW aesthetic, is to remove the shadow line 2/3rd from the bottom in the first two sections. I scrolled down on the image to crop more off the top. However, found doing this removed some drama in the image. |
Mar 11th |
| 83 |
Mar 20 |
Comment |
I reedited this image image using the PS green rather than yellow filter and cropped the lower part. Also, in Nik, I applied the light centre/dark exterior placing the point on the end of the ski trail to draw the eye into the image. To create more detail, I used Nik Color Effex detail extractor and tonal contrast to bring out detail in the trees. The revision emphasizes the trees.
However, for me, the image still misses the mark. Perhaps, because I love cross country skiing, I wish there was a skier in the image.
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Mar 2nd |
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