shoot now and create later

[mregnier]

Both shot in St Augustine, Fl..... the lighthouse was first
and on the way home, down A1A came the longest line
of pelicans that I had ever seen. Not a blend but an
example of a shot made more interesting through addition.

Great job of blending. The addition of the Pelicans really makes the composition.

Mike

 

[hodad66]

actually, as I think back, it might be three images...
sky, lighthouse, pelicans..... none with a mask...
simply deleting and layers.....

 

[ustein]

>simply deleting and layers.....

This would not work for a pelican over the lighthouse

 

[m3photo]

Saturn Night River

Here's a 1+1+1=5 version

and with a little help from my tablet:

 

[m3photo]

Saturn Night River

Here's a 1+1+1=5 version

and with a little help from my tablet :

 

[hodad66]

>simply deleting and layers.....

This would not work for a pelican over the lighthouse

pelicans.... top layer, lighthouse .... middle layer, sky bottom layer

no blending just normal layers...... :deadhorse:

 

[mregnier]

Re: Saturn Night River

Here's a 1+1+1=5 version

and with a little help from my tablet :

Very nice shot. I see lots of possible tight crops as well in the reflections in the water. Also, was curious if you looked at it in B&W as well.
Big leap and improvement from the original 2 stitched shots.

mike

 

[ustein]

My texture blending technique:

Here is a brief description of the layers and their use (bottom to top):

* Levels_Master_01: Controls the brightness, black and white point of the background layer
* HueSat_Master_01: Controls the saturation of the background layer
* Blending Layer: This layer gets the name of the image used for blending (to help find this image later). The blending mode of this layer is by default to "Multiply". You can change the blending mode but we most often get the best results using Multiply.
* Blurred Layer: This is a blurred version of the blending layer. The opacity is 50% by default. You can control the blur of the blending by changing the opacity form 0-100%
* Levels_Master_02: Controls the brightness, black and white point of the blending layer
* HueSat_Master_02: Controls the saturation of the blending layer
* GlobalLevels: Allows to tune the brightness, black and white point of the blended result
* DOP_TextureBlending Group: Tuning the opacity of this group allows to adjust the overall blending strength.

Of course there are many more options:

- Add effects
- Use masks
- use the script multiple times with different textures

Our script creates this structure and resizes the texture to match the background layer.

 

[mregnier]

Cloud Landing

main shot

sky shot from car window about an hour later.

texture layer

final composite, with lots of other adjustments.

Mike

 

[ustein]

Cloud Landing


texture layer

final composite, with lots of other adjustments.

Mike

Did you create the texture?

 

[mregnier]

Did you create the texture?

It was made from an 8x10 piece of film in the darkroom which had been scratched on the floor and developed. A friend of mine actually made this. We both were working in the same style with film and we would share textures and then combine textures as well.
It's much easier to make texture these days with a scanner and computer to layer different textures together.

mike

 

[kwalsh]

Huh... I was never interested in blends and what not, but I am quite taken by some of the examples here. Now that I live far away from my favorite subjects and don't get to visit them regularly I might have to give this a try to keep the creative juices flowing as it were. Thanks for posting!

Ken

 

[m3photo]

Re: Saturn Night River

Very nice shot. I see lots of possible tight crops as well in the reflections in the water. Also, was curious if you looked at it in B&W as well.
Big leap and improvement from the original 2 stitched shots.

mike

Thanks Boss

I sometimes see the need to convert some of my individual texture files to B&W but this image works better with colour.

 

[Rawfa]

Uwe, I very much like your blends! Do you shoot the texture as well or do you get it from a database?

 

[ustein]

Uwe, I very much like your blends! Do you shoot the texture as well or do you get it from a database?

All textures are custom. There is only one texture where I used a stock texture (paper) and then made my own (again through blending of course ).

Have now to wade through 60K of images to find more textures. My process is described in this thead. Good for us that we always liked to photograph textures. Also my textures are all between 6-21MP.

 

[mregnier]

shot this photo out of the car window driving thru France. I wasn't the one driving!

and here is a texture that I used

and here is the final with lots of retouching.

Mike

 

[viablex1]

wow this is cool love the tutorial screen shots!!

 

[mregnier]

wow this is cool love the tutorial screen shots!!

thanks. I find it interesting to see how everyone is working with their images.
mike

 

[woodmancy]

Mike - I love the poppy shot.

Keith

 

[ustein]

shot this photo out of the car window driving thru France. I wasn't the one driving!



Mike

Poppy shot is great. What blending mode are you using?