Challenge: Tools of the Trade (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Kodak DX7590
Location: My bedroom in Lansing, MI.
Date: Jul 26, 2005
Aperture: f3.6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/4
Galleries: Vintage, Studio
Date Uploaded: Jul 26, 2005
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So I've been up all night setting up and doing this shoot and I'm in ps and not real happy with the results. I keep thinking, this really just looks like 3 guitars standing in front of an amp, kind of 'snap-shottish', you know. I'm zooming in checking out detail and stuff, and suddenly, I see (close to) this view in the window. It catches my attention, so I fit back to screen and do a crop close to what I saw, and suddenly I liked it. I thought this much more interesting than just the full shot of 3 guitars standing in front of an amp. Of course, to you, it may still just look like 3 guitars standing in front of an amp, but hey, I tried :-) I like it, and the really cool thing is, now I have used ALL my guitars (8) in challenge photos. Cool, huh? hehehe
I also went to Meijers after work at 1 in the a.m. to buy a black sheet (had to get a whole set, that sux) and then with this crop, didn't actually need it...grrrrrr. But I know I'll use it in the future, after all, Sheila get's upset when I use her black skirts and stuff for backdrops :-P
Anyways, set up in my bedroom, used my clamp lights, and as usual took a ton of shots and had to cull through them to find that special one! (yeah, right) No other lights. No flash.
Oh, and then I get done editing, go to enter it and...DOH!!! -basic editing, maroon! I had done a faded overlay layer and thought it really made the photo. Shoot !!! So I go back into photoshop, redo it without the overlay, work some more on tweaking levels trying to get it at least close. Not too far off, but I still like the overlay version better, but oh well, we'll see how this does I guess.
So in ps- cropped, usm, gaussian blur w/opacity dropped, levels adj., and NO overlay, darnit :-P
Anyways, thanks for checking out my pic, hope you like it, and found my anecdotes at least slightly amusing. :-) |
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