Fun With Postwork by auntietk
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I took a picture at an intersection in Kansas City, thinking of Corey (CoreyBlack) and his seemingly-random-but-totally-amazing city shots. It was the bicycle and the motorcycle crossing that caught my eye.
So when I got home, I postworked the shot and when I was done, I had a picture of a guy on a bike. LOL! It had totally lost the flavor I was going for to begin with. A nice picture, perhaps, but nothing to write home about. (I had fun moving the manhole cover!)
It gave me the idea to show you a couple of "Before and After" pieces, just for fun.
The images on the left are straight out of the camera with zero postwork other than sizing. No cropping, no levels, no sharpening ... nothing.
The images on the right are what I ended up with. The first two are in my gallery, but the third one? Nah ... it turned out to be just a guy on a bike.
Look carefully, especially at the first one. Height of tower, proximity of tower to statue, cloud configuration ... about the only thing I didn't clone or warp in this one was the statue.
Sometimes I wonder about myself ... sheesh!
Comments (30)
Faemike55
Without trying, you'll never know what you can do.... I like to take the bleh pictures and go extreme on them The bottom one is very nice in that all that is virtually left is the two on two wheels - very nice work on all of them Tara
Dreamingbee
great collage with before and after postwork - it is always a pleasure to see, how it works !
beachzz
Sheesh indeed!! I love seeing what you do when you really start postworking your fotos. It's all I can do to clone out a few little branches or something--you take it to a new level!! Fun stuff--and the guy on the bike, well, he's got REALLY nice legs!!
Meisiekind
Hehe... Postwork is often more fun that clicking itself! Wonderful examples of digifiddling Tara! I love the bicycle thing!!!
durleybeachbum
I remember the statue! and that was way before you taught me some things. I used to think printing was the most fun you could have in the dark on your own... Now I do it in broad daylight! What a digi-fiddling hussy!
awjay
super work
MrsRatbag
It is amazing what we can do now so very easily! Well done!
Bothellite
This is TOTALLY fun. Wonders about that intersection and is that a heron flying over with something in its claws? No..... because that would make the other blob a real flying saucer. Moving the manhole, now that's awesome.
jmb007
beau travail!!
lick.a.witch
These are totally amazing! Great imagery and great talent!!! ^=^
lyron
Great works!!
Schaefchen
superklasse wonderful work
moochagoo
Very good work indeed.
bmac62
This is such a good example of what can be done using even a small part of Photoshop...or several of those other good editing programs out there. Once you get into this to any degree beyond sizing and cropping...you begin to feel like the sky is the limit. Both my right brain and left brain can get together on postwork and it is so nice for them to meet every once in awhile:) Well done and thanks for all your encouragement to try new things. :*
ocoee53
Easy to get carried away, isn't it? The inversion of the mountain photo worked very well. When I'm postworking a picture, I often invert it just to see what happens. The result is so hard for me to predict that I'm often surprised.
RodS
Don'cha just love Photoshop??? There seems to be no limit to what you can do with it - and I'm still using 7.0. Oh, to get my paws on CS5..... Looks like 'leaning buildings' bug you as much as they do me - I'm always trying to make them stand up straight - love those transforms! Great job on the Scout statue, and Mt Rainier. And I think the one at the intersection really looks good after you moved things around, improved the sky, and got rid of the widshield goobers and cars. Looks like you were about 47th at J.C. Nichols, just east of the Plaza. Nice postwork on these, Tara!
barbdennist
Great postwork, Tara. I really enjoyed looking at the before and after scenes.
mickuk50
I will have to get my head down and start remembering all the techniques I`ve learnt :o).. Mick
helanker
OH Tara that is really good and you had, I am sure, alot of fun. I so love to do such things myself and I do it all the time :-))) Excellent. AND I like that guy on the bike... the cropped one.
jocko500
real cool work
wysiwig
Very impressive work! You could have a promising career removing grooms from post-divorce wedding photos.
goodoleboy
I always have fun with postwork. In fact, without Photoshop I wouldn't even be doing this photography stuff.
Chipka
True twenty-first century art! Postwork is so much of the process for me, even when I don't postwork (outside of cropping, resizing, and all of that stuff.) I have a theory that much of what modern artistic techniques offer is post work because for me, taking a great photo is only half the process. I love it when I can make a photo into something else, into something hyper-real or totally phantasmagorical, or quite simply cloning out a stray gnat, moving the moon, or even putting another moon in. As I'm not on my original laptop (and my desktop is still in Texas--in storage) I'm without Photoshop, but I use the Gimp, which offers a decent, though minimal array of features. What I like about postworking is shown perfectly in your collage here. You can change a mood, you can change a time period, you can tell a story that is already in the original image, but not quite as pronounced. It's also hilarious that Marilyn and I notice the same things. The biker has nice legs, well defined calves, and well...I'm not surprised that Marilyn noticed. We have the exact same opinion of a particular waiter in a Persian restaurant, too. I'm surprised neither of us got a picture of HIM, and I'm surprised I didn't snap the shot, then postwork the living daylights out of it! I also have to say that you did a perfect CoreyBlack shot too. Corey's still a bit old school in that he doesn't post work much, but still...you caught the urban Corey vibe, only without Chicago architecture, but that might have something to do with not being in Chicago at that moment. That's the only real difference...though Corey is a car nut too, he'd have left the hood in. This is great work, and I am so in the mood to digifiddle with something now. And I think you've started something here. I think that there should be a running theme in the Photography gallery of Before and After shots that feature some measure of postwork. Great stuff!
bazza
Great work on this bit of photo manipulation Tara well done, You never know what you can do until you try.. love the before and after pictures..
blinkings
You have been busy! Nice work Tara.
debbielove
Middle one, I do really like... :-) Bottom has cleaner look.. Yep, go with that.. Top, no, way to clean.. Unnaturally uncluttered.. If that makes sense? Good work, but too cleaned up.. But, hey! That's just me.. Ignore me.. Middle though, very cool.. Rob
CoreyBlack
This is great fun. I've always loved before and after shots. And who doesn't like the freedom to play? I love how you've changed the whole mood of these pix by simply moving things around. Well, maybe SIMPLY isn't the right word, but they do have a much more different feel. Thanks for the plug, and as always, your wonderful comments. Now I'm trying to figure out what kind if car you were in. Not much to go on. The hood appears to slope down...hmmmmmmmm. Great work.
lucindawind
cool work .. PW is always fun
danapommet
I enjoy your postwork and no photo should end up on the cropping room floor because it isn't up to par. Dana
faroutsider
What is reality, anyway? Very cool (and instructive) collage.