The title refers to Gogols' wonderful short story.
Import Raw to Lightroom.
Crop
Black and White conversion
Curves
Greyscale colour mix
Export to Photoshop
Added a new layer
Gaussian Blur on selected areas of Layer
Dodge and burn
Add border
Back to Lightroom and some final curves
Export JPEG
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have you heard about Nikolai Gogol's famous story "Overcoat"? [Dostoevsky, another great Russian writer, once remarked that "we all came from Gogol's Overcoat"]. This is just an image to go with that story.
Overall: Quite fabulous; this says LevT to me - apologies if I have this wrong.
thanks for the compliment Paul.. :) I wish it was mine, I do like this a lot - the photo, and the processing. Great job Clive! (did not vote, just came across it)
I thought this might have been Zigomar's but not quite - I suspect my next guess might have been you had I pondered a bit longer. You have a lovely touch with processing. You use it to your advantage to bring your story to light in just the way you wish to tell it. Congrats on the new personal best, and in a FS no less!
OK, I'm going through the Free Study submissions, purposefully finding those images I think are shot with a less conventional eye - this is one of those images! Thanks for offering something that isn't just DPC friendly eye-candy (though of course there's nothing wrong with eye-candy). I'll be picking one of these images for the Mu (most underrated) award:
Positives: Oh wow! Instant favourite! This is just such a holistic image - every element is mutually supportive of each other element. The tones, the focus / blur, the vignette, the composition, the subject.... All brilliant.
Critical stuff: Nothing.
Overall: Quite fabulous; this says LevT to me - apologies if I have this wrong.
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