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PP My Pic - Bare Island

Postby Pehpsi on Wed Mar 05, 2008 12:07 am

Keen to see what people come up with.

This will be the pic:

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Re: PP My Pic - Bare Island

Postby big pix on Wed Mar 05, 2008 1:04 pm

2 images....... one processed for the sky one for the foreground, put together, levels and curves, sharpen........

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Re: PP My Pic - Bare Island

Postby libertyterran on Wed Mar 05, 2008 1:35 pm

Total transformation!
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Re: PP My Pic - Bare Island

Postby velly_16v_cab on Wed Mar 05, 2008 2:21 pm

wow...that totally changes the image :up:
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Re: PP My Pic - Bare Island

Postby digifrog on Wed Mar 05, 2008 2:42 pm

Hi could you describe the way the layers were merged, Manually and erase with brushes/masks or using a merge layer tool ??
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Re: PP My Pic - Bare Island

Postby digifrog on Wed Mar 05, 2008 3:12 pm

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My attempt - still like to hear how the colour one above was made !
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Re: PP My Pic - Bare Island

Postby big pix on Wed Mar 05, 2008 5:37 pm

digifrog wrote:Hi could you describe the way the layers were merged, Manually and erase with brushes/masks or using a merge layer tool ??


open both images, lift the foreground onto the background while holding down the shift key for alignment, add layer mask, paint sky to show sky image, flatten, levels and curves. sharpen........ simple.......
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Re: PP My Pic - Bare Island

Postby Pehpsi on Wed Mar 05, 2008 6:08 pm

Oh yeah, nice work lads :) Two very different styles!

Liking the contrast/colour in BP's, and the b&w tones in DF's are pretty sweet indeed. The vignette look suits very well. No idea how to merge layers though, bit much for simple old me..
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Re: PP My Pic - Bare Island

Postby photohiker on Wed Mar 05, 2008 6:34 pm

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My tinkering.. :)
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Re: PP My Pic - Bare Island

Postby Pehpsi on Wed Mar 05, 2008 8:23 pm

^ You came up with a very similar result to me :)
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Re: PP My Pic - Bare Island

Postby blacknstormy on Wed Mar 05, 2008 9:51 pm

:)

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Re: PP My Pic - Bare Island

Postby zafra52 on Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:20 pm

A very quick makeover just to see the colours...

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Re: PP My Pic - Bare Island

Postby digifrog on Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:30 pm

black and stormy has moved to the forefront imho -I love that version
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Re: PP My Pic - Bare Island

Postby Pehpsi on Thu Mar 06, 2008 1:06 pm

Great to see more variations :) So many different paths can be taken with this pic, just depends on what you like! I think blacknstormy has given me a new fave with those deep blues :up:
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Re: PP My Pic - Bare Island

Postby Viz on Thu Mar 06, 2008 10:00 pm

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Re: PP My Pic - Bare Island

Postby Pehpsi on Thu Mar 06, 2008 10:06 pm

These were the original ones I came up with.

First is standard with very little PP, second is a fake HDR from the 1 RAW file:

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Re: PP My Pic - Bare Island

Postby ATJ on Fri Mar 07, 2008 8:30 am

The water is so calm and clear, I wouldn't have stopped to take a photograph above the water. :P
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Re: PP My Pic - Bare Island

Postby Bodak on Fri Mar 07, 2008 12:27 pm

Just had to have a go.

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Re: PP My Pic - Bare Island

Postby MHD on Fri Mar 07, 2008 5:17 pm

This is a top thread IMHO!

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Re: PP My Pic - Bare Island

Postby jethro on Fri Mar 07, 2008 7:54 pm

I'll have a go in mono
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Re: PP My Pic - Bare Island

Postby phoenix on Fri Mar 07, 2008 9:40 pm

I think it would be interesting for everyone to share how they did their different shots. There's always so many ways to do different things, even the B&W stuff.
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Re: PP My Pic - Bare Island

Postby xerubus on Fri Mar 07, 2008 9:51 pm

little overboard.. but it was fun :)

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Re: PP My Pic - Bare Island

Postby blacknstormy on Fri Mar 07, 2008 11:34 pm

Hey :) I shouldn't be allowed to pp photos - cos I just play, and keep playing until I get something that I like :? just went back and checked my raw conversion settings - that's where I picked up the deeper blues - white balance of cloudy, set to exposure -1.15, shadow 5, brightness +50, contrast +25 and saturation +58. then
from memory, sharpen, adjusted levels, did quite a bit of dodging (particularly the rocks, jetty and wall on the island) and burning of the clouds and sea, increased saturation even more, did a draganiser layer (set to around 40% opacity), and did an artistic paint daub layer set at around 20% at brush size and sharpness of 1.
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Re: PP My Pic - Bare Island

Postby Pehpsi on Sat Mar 08, 2008 1:41 am

I like it xerubus :)

But I can't decide what I prefer with this shot; colour or b&w!
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Re: PP My Pic - Bare Island

Postby xerubus on Sat Mar 08, 2008 8:43 am

Pehpsi wrote:I like it xerubus :)


Eeeek. Looking at it now it's way over the top. The things you do with too many beers and a slow Friday night. :)
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Re: PP My Pic - Bare Island

Postby Pehpsi on Mon Mar 10, 2008 10:55 pm

Thanks all for the great response :)
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