A Portrait of my Nikon D70s on a double peacock background which I'm almost cetain will be called distracting and, perhaps, over saturated. Well it turn it out much as I concieved it so I'll take the lumps....I always do.
I made the NBC like peacock bacground out of tissue paper. It's all put together with masking tape on the back. I was quite happy with how it turned out. On Friday, I went to the Pure Design, my florist, and bought some flowers and 5 peacock feathers that were relatively short in length. I took the feathers and stuck them in a piece of green block and set it on a box under the black velvet and the rainbow background. I put a piece of poster board under the black velvet and attached the rainbow background to it with thumb tacks. I set the camera on the box in front of the peacock feathers.
I used only two clamp lamps to light this, both above and in front of the set up. Camera on tripod and cable remote.
Hope it doesn't fare to badly but hey, I gave it a go.
Post: Camera Raw adjustments in PSElements 6.0, Convert to jpeg. Layer adjustments for levels, brightness/contrast and hue/saturation. USM (15/50/0). Shadows and Highlights. Clone/Spot Healed camera lens. Layer of Hue/Sat. Made a layer mask of the camera. Dup Layer, gaussian blue 16 pixels 40% opacity on the entire background. Another layer of Hue/sat. Select inverse and applied Power Retouche Dynamic Range Compressor to the camera. Selected inverse and applied Kyoto Color, for, of all things, additionsl saturation, normal blend mode, 63% opacity. Merged down and cropped 4 times. Some slight sharpening of the entire image. Resize. Sharpen.
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Reminds me a little of the NBC peacock. a good idea, but the image seems a little grainy, and the folds in the fabric (or is that paper?) are a problem.
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