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Marko
04-01-2009, 10:34 AM
Anyone want to offer up an image for us to play with?

MoinMoin
04-05-2009, 07:10 AM
Well, I don't know, if I am doing right here. But no other one shows a photo and I'll give a try. Here is a photo from my sisters dog. It was a try to take a photo from a moving "object". Unfortunately a snowflake set a miserable speckle on the lens :yuck:. Anyone here, who can vanish it? Feel free to work on it ;-).

http://www.sagas-welt.de/showroom/album/Animals/fliege1.jpg

Ben H
04-05-2009, 07:49 AM
This is a really quick edit (ie could be better, I wasn't going to really sweat on it) and if you had the original RAW image at full size it could be better still, but:-

http://www.benhall.co.uk/pics/dog.jpg

edbayani11
04-05-2009, 10:35 PM
my attemot. i used the eyes of my neighbor's dog.

alducente
04-06-2009, 08:24 PM
Here's my crack at it:
http://files.alducente.com/share/dog2.jpg

MoinMoin
04-08-2009, 03:46 PM
Sorry - that it was so easy for you ;-). But as the different pics shows, it isn't easy to keep the snow light enough after the retouching, isn't it?

@edbayani11: Your overworked eyes are the best in my opinion. To get the eyes darker but with enough "life" in it, was the hardest for me.

Well, and because I won't compete with profis I choose another way to work the picture over:

http://www.sagas-welt.de/showroom/album/Animals/fliege2.jpg

edbayani11
04-09-2009, 08:03 AM
hi moin moin, i like the way you pp'd your photo. looks like a tapestry!

Gem
04-22-2009, 04:21 PM
I'm going to assume that I post here....Lol, sad to say that I've only ventured once or twice into this subforum :o

Here we go. Anyone want to try their at removing the streak?
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3655/3461042771_b788ddec37.jpg

edbayani11
04-22-2009, 09:40 PM
I'm going to assume that I post here....Lol, sad to say that I've only ventured once or twice into this subforum :o

Here we go. Anyone want to try their at removing the streak?
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3655/3461042771_b788ddec37.jpg

here is my attemt. hope it serves the purpose. :)
on second thought i like it with the streak. IMO.

Gem
04-22-2009, 11:10 PM
here is my attemt. hope it serves the purpose. :)
on second thought i like it with the streak. IMO.

Oh hey, thank you! I kinda like the streak too, now...Lol, I'm conflicted. But, I still hate the second, smaller streak. Can I ask how you removed it?

edbayani11
04-22-2009, 11:55 PM
since the streak was slight, i just used the burn tool, set to midtones, at 4% exposure. i set it at the softest and brushed the light streak slowly. adjusted the size of the brush acording to the width of the streak sometimes while brushing, the color saturates a little, so i brish it with the sponge tool to desaturate it to bring it back to its original color. :)

Crashcat
04-24-2009, 08:56 AM
Here is one.
As per suggestion I am throwing it out here for others to give it a go.
Here was my original attempt.
http://www.photography.ca/Forums/showthread.php?t=3375
Here is how it started out.

kat
04-24-2009, 09:34 AM
I took your photo and made a false HDR image. It really took out the highlighted area. And that would be it for the first one. Then I did the desaturate, used the history brush and did the second one.

Hope you get more images that are more unique than mine..lol!

edbayani11
04-24-2009, 12:03 PM
i like what kat did. its simplicity gives the subtle impact.

i'm not happy with what i did but i posted it anyway.

Gem
04-24-2009, 02:22 PM
since the streak was slight, i just used the burn tool, set to midtones, at 4% exposure. i set it at the softest and brushed the light streak slowly. adjusted the size of the brush acording to the width of the streak sometimes while brushing, the color saturates a little, so i brish it with the sponge tool to desaturate it to bring it back to its original color. :)

D'oh! Sometimes I forget this section even exists :headslap:

Thanks for that edbayani! I'm going to try it out on another picture and see how it goes :fingerscr

Marko
04-26-2009, 10:17 AM
kat's second image is 88% complete for me in terms of the image I have in my head. I'd make SOME of those great brick considerably darker to get some rich dark tones in the grey bricks.

Crashcat
04-26-2009, 09:51 PM
After a little more playing around I think I got it. Maybe??
:clap:

Marko
04-27-2009, 10:33 AM
Best version so far IMO:highfive: and 96% there. :D
A bit more selective dodging and burning and a wee overall contrast boost would likely bring me to 100.

Please keep in mind this is only 1 person's vision and at this point it's more about personal taste. The happiest person needs to be the photographer.