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HI HelenLovely #! / more Striking a rendition
Shot 2 / there is a sinister quality lurking there
Jono: Glad your Back......All the Best..... Helen
I rather liked the ring - here's my take:i played a bit with the original. A tough one...mainly tried to lighten it a bit and tried to remove the bit of harsh reflection from his ring.
i do like what you did / perhaps enlarging also created more tension as opposed to the love factor (kissing in a back alley)I love the photo. It hints at what is going on, and I just feel like I need to see a bit more to reach a little further into my gut. Resonates with those stolen moments in a dark patch with some young girl who's name you've long forgotten, but was important in that youthful moment.
Hmm, time for another shower perhaps..
So do I - needs about 3 takes and I'm still confused.I think this is just absolutely brilliant:
BRAVO!
a bit softer. Too bad it's a .jpg
Completely true, the piece of trash is important. In fact I took a different piece of trash out, in about 30 seconds in aperture. Was surprised how easy it is to do. Below is the original, just to show how much that little extra bit unbalances the photo. And a slightly different take, with more contrast, though the first is probably better.That is a great photo. You have the feeling that if you take away the piece of trash by his foot, the composition would go out of kilter.
I wish I could give you a straight answer. It now seems so long ago. I do remember that it was late at night and I just started playing with it in photoshop. I remember a mask or two and some selections with adjustment layers specific to them, but I can't pull up the recipe. One likely effect I would have tried was the use of an action that's part of the PixelGenius PK Sharpener plugin. It's a blur tool that you set up as a brush and can "paint" blur whereever you want it and then adjust its opacity. I also make use of the selective color tool a lot, even in B&W. I'm a tiny bit more organized with working process for my own stuff, but this was just for fun.It's a great idea to soften the image. It works especially well in your version, since the faces come out. I kept wanting to come back to this for a while, since I didn't think so much could be squeezed from this image.
Anyway, I tried to mimic your version in Aperture, but there seems to be no way to soften an image. Does anybody know how this can be done? In any case, it would be great to know how you did it, I presume in photoshop - which I have, but am not familiar with at all.