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Michael Kanemoto
{K:22106} 10/21/2004
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For Howard M. Parsons, who wanted an example of one of my photographs, before and after Photoshop. Voila.
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Hugo de Wolf
{K:185017} 10/22/2004
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Hi Michael, I agree the desaturation has been much more subtly applied (barely noticable, if you hadn't told me... ) Hope you didn't misread my comment, It's not an issue of "freaking out", jsut venting my thoughts.
I like what you done to the image; but looking at the metamorphosis you posed, I would say it's a saturation step; did you locally desaturise it? (Presumably the sea and land strip in the backgroun, but that's only a guess) What technique did you use? Masking it, and copying it to a new layer? Just curious here...
Cheers,
Hugo
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Michael Kanemoto
{K:22106} 10/22/2004
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Here is what happened:
Each of these areas were masked seperately and the levels (contrast and brightness) adjusted:
- Sky
- Background hills and lake
- Ground behind the pool
- The pool
- The foreground in front of the pool
Most of the changes you see were from those adjustments.
I then saturated the entire image to make the digital seem more like the film I'm used to.
I then masked the pool with a wide feather (large gradient) and desaturated. This means the color is subtly less intense as you radiate outward from the pool. It was a really slight adjustment. I could have just saturated the pool with the same effect.
If you want to partner up on a photograph you have taken some time, let me know. mkanemoto at gmail dot com
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Hugo de Wolf
{K:185017} 10/22/2004
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Hi Michael, Thanks for your offer and elaborate reply. Interesting to see what you did. Quite elaborate PS work, and well handled... Impossible to tell from this (size) shot!
Thanks for the offer, I really appreciate it, but I like to think I'm quite adept at PS myself. The only thing I struggled with (that comes to mind) is the illumination on the church in http://www.usefilm.com/image/532767.html... You were right about that, I should've spent some more time on it. If you scroll down, you'll see the original images...)
Cheers,
Hugo
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Ian McIntosh
{K:42170} 1/14/2005
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Tremendous work here. That tree still green?
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Michael Kanemoto
{K:22106} 1/14/2005
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As green as the water... The tree has probably been there for much longer than 20 some years, perhaps over a hundred years.
The things kids remember...
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