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Glad you found this forum, Mike. It's changed my direction with this type of imagery. Very inspirational.New promos I'm making. Shot with the EP-1. I like them in this format, gives you an idea how they might look framed. All are reflections of trees in water.
mike
New promos I'm making. Shot with the EP-1. I like them in this format, gives you an idea how they might look framed. All are reflections of trees in water.
Beautifull serie Mike. These look great in BW.
Michiel
Thank you Mike. I am sorry, I did see this before but my neurons must have taken a wrong turning then and forgot about it completelyHi Michael,
I copied the text (below) that I posted earlier regarding my method. But basically, I shoot textures all the time and combine textures to make new textures. Then I layer them in photoshop and with the layer properties, I set them to different types such as overlay or soft light. And with masks I can control wether or not the texture goes over the entire image. I also use the opacity slider on the texture layer to control the amount. Most of my images have multiple textures and many adjustment layers.
Mike
Are you familiar with a site named http://www.chromasia.com
He does tutorials that are a fair price, and he actually did 2 tutorials on my work with textures that goes in depth in to my work with my examples and how I did it. Here is a more direct link. http://www.chromasia.com/tutorials/online/wwt1_info.php
It is a two part tutorial using my work and his work. However, if you don't want to get involved with that, just keep playing with different images and try different blend modes on the texture and opacity changes as well as masks to alter part of the textures. I sometimes use multiple textures on top of each other at different strengths. It's not uncommon to end up with 10 or more layers and huge files.
The chromasia tutorial would be better than a book. I don't make any money from this by the way, so I'm not trying to push his tutorials. He does do a great job of teaching though.
Hope this helps
Beautiful work. The black and white result is well suited to this subject too.All are reflections of trees in water.
Go for the safe deposit box more regularly to make those nightbokeh'smaybe not as abstract as some here...
but here is some Noctilux on e-p1 bokeh... excuse the noise... auto ISO was set way too high
Whatever's in there, its a super image.Suddenly I saw the beauty... Maybe some of you will also
Wow! Where are my sunglasses?"Suffolk Wheat Field in Evening Sun"
Still learning Photoshop. But since I cleaned my sensor, I don't have so many dots to play with :bugeyes: :deadhorse:
Keith
Thanks Abbazz - it is easy to get carried away with these OOF composits. But the ideas that people on this thread are presenting encourage us all to experiment. :talk028:Wow! Where are my sunglasses?
I wouldn't mind having this one printed big in my living room .
Cheers!
Abbazz
Nice shot Keith. I can't quite tell on my monitor, but is there texture in the sky also?
Mike
Thanks so much, Mike - that is exactly the effect I wanted. I think the blending options are giving me some trouble. Overlay works well here.Hi Keith,
Hope you don't mind me doing this. Just wanted to show you an easy way to get texture in the sky. Flatten you image, if you want or just put a new texture on the top and roughly mask out the foreground either all the way or 50% as I did. Put the texture on top as Overlay.
This just adds a bit of texture to the sky which ties the sky to the rest of the image.
Mike