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Lower Door
Started July 10, 2009 @ 10:22am by Cowboy2
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Cowboy2
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| Lower Door | July 10, 2009 @ 10:22am | 
Tried to get an old photo look for the doorway at a restored ruin.
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Flo
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| July 10, 2009 @ 3:29pm | You got it! Is that doorway for short people? No way really to tell scale.
Flo - PPY
"May we live in peace without weeping. May our joy outline the lives we touch without ceasing. And may our love fill the world, angel wings beating." aziza
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Cowboy2
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| July 10, 2009 @ 7:15pm | It is about 4 feet high
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Jackie
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| July 19, 2009 @ 4:02pm | | Beautiful framing of the shot and the treatment definitely works and tells a story. |
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| July 20, 2009 @ 4:25am | A bit too much noise in the image for my taste... to make an old look you could try a texture on the image along with your vignette, I think that would work better for this kind of shot.
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Last Edit: July 20, 2009 @ 4:27am by Danny | |
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Cowboy2
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| July 20, 2009 @ 9:10am | Hi Danny,
Would you elaborate on "textures". I'm not sure how to go about it, however would like to try it out.
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Last Edit: July 20, 2009 @ 9:10am by Cowboy2 | |
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Bug
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| July 20, 2009 @ 3:14pm | Hi Bill,
I like the way that you managed to get the whole room in frame. I also like the look of the bricks. On my screen the back wall almost looks like the bricks are made of gold.
When I look very close, I see little red and green dots. Is that what Danny means by noise in this case?
Charlene
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Cowboy2
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| July 20, 2009 @ 7:25pm | Hi Charlene,
That is right. I injected noise to create the grain affect. However, when I reduced the image down for the web the noise was emphasized somehow giving the color specs. I would like to play with the idea more. I may have to resort to a plug-in to get the results I seek. But I'm off for a three day shoot so it will have to wait until I return.
Bill
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Last Edit: July 20, 2009 @ 7:27pm by Cowboy2 | |
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| July 21, 2009 @ 9:57am |
Quote (Cowboy2)
Hi Danny,
Would you elaborate on "textures". I'm not sure how to go about it, however would like to try it out.
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Sure Bill,
Here is a link to a free texture resource http://mayang.com/textures/
For an old effect grab a fabric texture and desaturate it so that all you are left with is a black and white texture. Create a new layer above your image and then paste in the texture. The size or effect may be wrong but you can rescale the layer, cut out pieces or even join a smaller pattern to create a larger one.
Use a blend mode from the overlay family soft-light is a good starting point.
I suggest just playing with the technique until you get a style you like.
Hope that helps,
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Cowboy2
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| July 24, 2009 @ 9:43am | Thanks for the tip Danny. I will try it out for sure. Just returned from a trip to an area with old mining stuctures. Maybe some good candidates for the effect.
Thanks again
Bill
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| July 24, 2009 @ 4:02pm | Hey check out the website of Brian Bastinelli a photographer that posts to this forum, he uses textures in his images and they may give you some ideas.
Web Link : http://www.brianbastinelli.com
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Cowboy2
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| July 24, 2009 @ 5:08pm | Danny,
That is some web site. I enjoyed it and aspire to get the people on location images that BB is doing so so well. I do see his use of textures and would like to try out some of the techniques. I went to the link you provided for free textures, but couldn't find a way to download anything. I'm pretty dense sometimes (most times).
Bill
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Bug
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| July 24, 2009 @ 5:28pm | Hi Bill,
You can make your own textures. Take photographs of things with texture. Some examples are: Rust, wood, peeling paint, carpeting, fabrics, sand etc. Once you try them out, it will give you ideas, then soon you will be seeing textures almost everywhere.
If you want to see some textures, Google textures (hit the image button on the Google page) You will find many there to view. You may not be able to use them but they will give you ideas.
I hope this helps you.
Charlene
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| July 25, 2009 @ 4:49am | No problem Bill,
Basically on the free texture web site you are flicking through the categories, pick a category to explore, when you see something you like you click on it, and when the full image loads up in your browser you right click on the image and choose download image as, or save image as depending on the browser you are using at the time.
This will save the image to your computer for later use, but just like Charlene said there are TONS of places on the web for textures as they are used in all kinds of things. Some are free to use and some are not, but in the spirit of open source and sharing there are more than enough free texture resources to find what you need, and some of them are a very high quality.
So start with these, but have a good look around... and also like Charlene said again take pictures of interesting textures yourself when you see them.
I generally will go to a harbour waterfront as they have fantastic textures or a scrap yard is another rich resource wanting to be discovered.
Above all have fun, as thats what keeps us all going
Danny
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assignment
Community Assignment #53
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Due Date: September 16, 2011 |
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