Joayh found this birds eggshell on the ground. There is no trees nearby where she found it so we dont know how it got there!
Of course I had to take lots of photos! First of all it was early evening and the light was dim but I am getting much better at working in maual on this and was able to find a good setting ;) Then I had the brainwave of putting the shell on my windowsill which gave a nice white background.
I opened this in my raw viewer and started playing with some of the settings and noticed pumping up the exposure gave it a really nice high key effect which then made me think of one of my favourite photos form the challenge .
So I though I would try and make the bold move of trying to emulate snowflakejen's glorious photo.So i opened it in photoshop did the old gum thing adjusted some of the settings, Curves twice levels once and waalaa!
DID I MENTION HOW PROUD I AM OF THIS!!!!
Of course it is nowhere as good as snowflakejens but for me it's really good! Roz is helping me with the edit of another photo ma yet to post and I have leant alot which I have used here :)
This is the original
Even though the lighting may be bright at the top of the egg, I like it that way! Gives it a cool feel and the grain with it..wow, this is very nice work. To me not everything has to be perfect. those imperfections really give personality to a persons photos. Makes them different, which this one is.
You should be proud of this lovely, softly shaded image!! You did it!!! The processing on this is steller! Wish I could do this. Lovely job, just lovely!!
Charlie, I love this one. Congrats on the masterful playing. I was hoping I'd find eggs lying around like this so that I could use it for something young.
WOW charlie i love wot you've done with the poor little egg !! .. the colouring you've done is brilliant and the grain works so well .. it gives it a more abandoned feeling to me .. old and abandoned .. you should be proud of this coz its excellent .. :)
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