went with my boyfriend greg, to pick up his daughter from work .. her name is elle ... i was waiting in the car just outside the hairdresser's where she works .. i noticed her boss at the counter making phone calls and doing stuff .. the combination of her boss and the poster just underneath was impossible to not photograph .. i did not get out of the car ..
it was already getting a bit dark which is why there's a reflection of the lights in the glass .. it would've probably been better without them ..
this is processed A BIT!! .. and for this 50 days, i think i read somewhere, that if we process, then that's ok as long as we give the processing steps ..
opened jpeg in CS2 ..
cropped but couldnt do a square crop because i lost too much of the image that i felt was necessary .. so i then increased the canvas size width to make the image square .. i then used xero soft vignette on the sides .. you can get this plug and heaps of others for free at this site xero free plugs i then created a mask of that layer and erased the bits of the vignette that i didnt want to affect the rest of the image ..
i then did a levels adjustment layer where i gave image a bit more contrast and lightened the poster woman coz she was too dark ..
did another adjustment layer in selective colour where i increased the red and yellow ...
i then did filter/stylize/emboss and made it blending mode overlay ..
resized, sharpened and saved for web ..
i did a different process with another photograph of the same scene using the dragoniser action, but didnt put it in here coz i didnt give it a square crop .. i only realised that i could do the square crop by increasing the size of the canvas after i'd put the other one into my portfolio .. this is it ..
i just did another process, basic edit, and did the square crop without increasing the canvas size or anything .. the border is created by the doorway ..
Took me a moment to take it all in, then I realized how cool this image is! The human looks as posed as the models in the picture, and almost as 2D! Your reprocessed image linked here is a lot cleaner and looks awesome w/o the halos etc., but the image of the models in the window is darker -- I liked the brighter images in the original. Bottom line, very impressive!
That cool looking -- it almost looks like she is their "superior" and is watching over them. I kinda like the reflections in this scene -- adds to the "urban" feeling of it.
Rare Species - that's the icing, Roz! Great catch. I love reflections like that, adding layers to a subject and giving it a twist - you have such a good eye!
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