Mikes Photography

hil26 · Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 3:30 pm Post subject: Deep in thought

Could not decide where to put this one, Portrait, black and white etc so came her with it instead.

Statue was in a church yard over in Venoms neck of the woods, Peak District near Buxton.

Just have to wonder what she was thinking about!
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creators · Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 3:54 pm Post subject:

Wonderful.
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Evolution104 · 2Fast 2Furious Joined: 07 Jan 2007 Posts: 998

There's some great texture in this, as well as good compositional balance. Well seen.

If anything, I might suggest toning down the brighter area above her head just a bit.

The more I look at this, the more I like it, and can see lots of rich potential for further ps work.
Very nice image.

hil26 · Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:57 am Post subject:

Thanks John

believe it or not but this image was taken about 2 years ago, and I didn't like it, in colour the actual stonework has an awful green tinge to it. As I haven't been out as much with the camera, weather here has been abysmal I have been looking through past images, and now that my image editing has improved, I can make the difference to those older images.

There was quite a bit of work to get the image I posted, but I did learn a lot the best being how to increase the darkness of the lines and folds - had never thought of let alone used the find edges filter on a new layer and working that into the image - it worked quite well.

Will be experimenting now over a period of time.

cheers

Dave
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creators · Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 10:38 am Post subject:

How interesting, the weather turns out to be a mixed blessing because I've been doing much the same Dave. I've started using the High Pass filter for sharpening only recently and am much impressed with the results. For anyone who's never tried it, duplicate the image, set blend mode to Overlay, add High Pass filter at around 0.5 - 2, my usual at present is 1.5.

Here is the difference in an image I did over a year ago and now, the High Pass filter just being one of several ways I now do things differently.

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jonH · Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 11:22 pm Post subject:

welcome to the high pass club keith - i've been banging on about it for yonks and think it gives much nicer results than usm

i tend to use 0.4px for a reasonably subtle alteration

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