PP (in Photoshop 5.5)
- open
- crop
- curves
- adjustment layer: Hue/sat, and desaturate
- Layer mask on desaturated layer; paint back all colored areas
- clone out a couple dust spots
- brighness/contrast
- Adjust hue/sat of colors individually
- smart blur on background to get rid of noise (a real problem with my point and shoot)
- resize
- border
- save for web
***********
Woohooo! My best score yet. Funny story -- I thought the original was dried up flower petals in a glass vase taken from the top down. After getting a comment that I didn't look closely enough... I went back and looked closer... and lo and behold -- the original was taken in a sink drain. The "glass" was actually the garbage disposal ring, and the background was actually a white sink. Sigh. So I felt really silly, and assumed my shot would tank for not being close enough to the original. So I'm really pumped that this scored so well. Thanks!
Statistics
Place: 21 out of 73 Avg (all users): 6.1875 Avg (commenters): 7.4444 Avg (participants): 6.2195 Avg (non-participants): 6.1748 Views since voting: 1682 Views during voting: 259 Votes: 144 Comments: 9 Favorites: 1 (view)
very nice take on the challenge. everything looks great - very sharp, beautiful colors, no harsh glare on the glass - the only nitpick would be if you could possibly get the background whiter and the contents of the bowl just a tad brighter without affecting the glass reflections
seems like you didn't look close enough at the original... in the original the remains were in a washing machine (round), not in a bowl (heart-shaped). Besides that, it is a good shot, could be a tad brighter and the 3 petals at bottom are arranged top parallely
Add photograph to your favorites
Add photographer to your favorites
Photographer found comment helpful.
