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Oh you..stop it! Now you’ve invaded my favorite photography subject.
The Irish graveyard.
I am giving up right now :P
(gorgeous..love the detail you gleaned from the crosses)
Excellent. Warmest looking graveyard shot
I’ve ever seen. Also one of my favourite subjects…Rob.
Thanks, peops.
Pete, generally speaking the first thing I do is play around in the Canon RAW convertor software – Sharpen set to maximum, lighting conditions set to ‘shade’ (adds nice warmness) contrast set to middlesville. I might add a smidgen of green and amber to give a warmcool tone. After that it’s photoshop time. I’ll copy the image to a new file so I always have this to fall back on – let’s call this original_b. Working on original_a I’ll do some big contrast work in Photoshop and then desaturate the hell out of it by about 70% before plopping to layers of flat colour on top set to ‘overlay’ or ‘soft light’ at 50%. At this stage it’s pretty much a duotone, and I’ll then pop original_b on top of that and set it to 50% or so to pop some colour back in. After that I’ll use an action I found on the web called ‘lomoyze’, google it. This adds some nice warm fuzziness, and again I’ll pop original_b on top and feck with layer transparency levels. If I’m getting close to what I want but have lost some shadow detail I’ll pop original_b back on top again, invert it, desaturate it, set the layer to ‘soft light’ or ‘overlay’ at between 30% and 60%…depending. Maybe another colour overlay or two.That’s as precise as I can be, every image is different but that’s pretty much the basics. Only other thing I may do is pop original_b back on top and set to ‘multiply’ to darken the sky, brushing away darkness to reveal lighterness with a big soft brush in different directions (brush set to 25%) so the effect is gradual and irregular.
Hope that helps.
Thanks Mick. You’ve proved that you don’t get something for nothing – the results
speak for themselves. I think these images are really striking.Ta, Pete.
To be honest, the only thing I really concentrate on when taking a snap is composition, to me that’s 90% of the battle and if you don’t have it then no amount of cropping or photoshop can save you. The rest is just faffing about with colour. Glad you like them.hi mick,
those picture are amazing. took the opportunity to have a look at the rest of your different pict and i ve to say i never seen so far such intense, powerful and highly emotionnal pictures…thanks for explaining how do you work, it helps a lot to understand the all thing.ulinka wrote:
hi mick,
those picture are amazing. took the opportunity to have a look at the rest of your different pict and i ve to say i never seen so far such intense, powerful and highly emotionnal pictures…thanks for explaining how do you work, it helps a lot to understand the all thing.Urszula
I love your accent. I hope you never end up speaking Dub.
The 2nd is my favourite, just love the overall feel, the colours, the mood
Love the spooky clouds on No.1 though!
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