Pine sapling and clouds, shot while I was waiting in line to get gas. Macro of beer bottle shot at home.
Original shot processing:
-Exposure compensation -1Ev
-Cloned-out streetlight top and a stray bit of cloud
-Noise-reduction with PictureCooler
-RGB Curve
-Blue Channel Curve
Second photo processing:
-Tungsten WB
-RGB Curves to highlight and fade bottle
-Channel Mixer convert to grayscale
-Export to TIFF file
Composite steps:
-Pasted gray image into new layer over the sky photo
-Erased background around bottle
-Stretched and scaled bottle to better match shape/position of cloud
-Lowered opacity of bottle layer to about 4%
-Resize for DPC
-USM at 12%/48/TH = 0
-USM at 12%/48/TH = 0 (second application)
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 9/10 = 154kb
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It's really a cool idea but I'm having a hard time figuring out what the added imgage is. I think it's a thumb but am not sure enough to satisfmy my desire to undestand the image.
Love the choice of color.
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