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Photography F.A.Q (Last Updated: 2024 Dec 28 1:17 pm)
Anyway, here is my fix:
Using PSCS4, I opened and cropped image. Then used "shadow/highlight to adjust the lighting so things weren't so dark. I used "Neat Image" to remove excess noise. Then I added a duplicate layer, gaussian blur, layer adjust color dodge @ 100% and Walah!
Kim Hawkins
Kim Hawkins Eastern Sierra Gallery
First, I just realized the new DITI is done by the *first *person to respond, not the last:
My apologies! I'm new to Photography (coming from 2D) & messed up. My apologies Helle! I owe you something---I'll make you a drawing!
Kim. You've both lightened & improved the photograph. My version of CS doesn't have "Neat Image" (though being new to photography I've let some imperfections stand in order to learn from them). Considering the quality of your gallery, I'm not surprised by the ease with which you did this version. Your gaussian blur & layering coaxed out light & hue from the cars. Very nice work kim.
I love it Wayne. You've created a snow-laden, grain-laden blizzard. Grain (or whatever speckling you used) will form waves & deluges which engulf an image: You created white & blue clouds from which the cars quietly emerge (with some bright & clear detail): I love what you did. Mist & clarity together...
I had some time this morning, so I took both your images---Kim & Wayne---blended them w/ adjustments, then blended my original, upside-down. I got the below...
Mark, do not apologize for jumping in there. The usual flow is to have the first person to post start the next one, but there are several of us here that end up posting quite often. It's good to see a new face come on the scene and add to the fun.
I had to laugh, because I had mirrored the picture at one point also and thought it looked like a futuristic garage with anti-gravity machines that allowed the cars to park upside down over the other cars! LOL :P Very Cool!
Kim Hawkins
Kim Hawkins Eastern Sierra Gallery
Thanks Kim. I was on the 2D forum a while back & remember how loose it was. But when you're on a new forum, you have dreams of the Forum Police banging on your door at 3 a.m. screaming, "you destroyed the DITI thread!!!"
("Forum Police"---ya think I need some sleep???)
Helle, you know how much I love your transformations. This is an oil-painting with a wonderful symmetry from of a non-symmetric shot. I love the hues too. You turned my empty photo into a Jackson Pollock spill. It's wonderfully messy & very orderly at the same time. Thanks for messing with my image, always a pleasure!
So now I did a blend of Kim's & Helle's images;
then below it, the combo blended with Wayne's.
Adjustments & an oval filter. Just for fun. Hope you enjoy...
Wow, you people have so much imagination! I'll have to learn to be more playful. These are really interesting.
Thanks for the kind words Mark. Their server on Blurb is fairly slow if you want to preview a book - you wait for about 45 seconds with nothing happening, but after it starts it seems to go faster.
Wayne
Hey.... don't laugh..... I've had the "Forum Police" at my door at 3am! JK! LOL :P
Helle, I see a face at the bottom of yours... Carmen Miranda style with big earrings!
Love the mixes, Mark!
Wayne! Now your getting creative!!!!
Kim Hawkins
Kim Hawkins Eastern Sierra Gallery
Hi!
Sorry I'm late...(we had a high rise fire & the repair cut our connection for days, and since I work at home, I have to leave to connect. Connecting from here is slowwwww...)
Wayne, that is creative. I recognize the wheel of the front car, and you've mirrored it to make a ghost image of a car's front. I think you've repeated the garage-lights to make the grille & fender---very creative work. (It could also be a strange face or skull. I like the violet hues too.)
Kim, I see the Carmen Miranda w/ her crazy "fruit" hat! I'm tempted to do something with it, though Helle does those masks a lot better than I do. (There's a bad joke in there about "miranda rights" but I'll pass...)
Finally, 4abnormal, it looks like you've taken Kim's image & smudged it (or done brushwork) to create the wind-lines: Subtly done, and not in too many places. I say that because the temptation with smudging is to do it alot. Very nice.
(And helle, thank you: It's a pleasure to be among so many fine photographers, yourself included!)
Now 2 small variations...
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I don't have a connection & have had to be away, so please forgive if I'm late to respond. I'll get here, I just may be late...I appreciate your patience & hope you're inspired to mess-up my image!
Mark