Frauenchiemsee pics

[compilerbitch]

I grabbed a pic of this old couple from quite a distance away. They were sitting waiting for the ferry, not very contently it seems! Finishing was relatively complex. I desaturated the image, then made multiple layer copies in Photoshop and adjusted the contrast and brightness separately in each layer, so each element in the shot looked the way I wanted it. Then I painted layer masks by hand to bring everything together.




Relatively simple, this one. I think I just took the green channel because I wanted to lighten the grass. Other than that, nothing fancy.




This is a panorama stitched together in Photoshop. The web version doesn't do much for it -- the original is something like 6000 pixels across the horizontal, so it looks startlingly sharp.




Part of the abbey. This was yet another panorama, this time in three horizontal stripes, assembled in Photoshop. As I remember, I used AE lock to make sure that the components matched. I forgot that with the ferry, which meant a lot of tweaking in Photoshop, whereas this one just worked.




This one was a lot more complex than it looks. The image was taken in three stripes because it was impossible to get a good enough vantage point, and my camera can't get much wider than about a 35mm equivalent. The stripes were assembled in photoshop, hand corrected and retouched a little, then perspective corrected as a whole. So far, this was all in the original colour. The B&W image was created with my usual technique of splitting into layers and setting contrast and brightness separately for each element.





Just a nice snap. Nothing special.


And, finally...



An artist should draw what he or she sees. This is what I saw. My Eyes!


More to come shortly...

Comments

[redcountess]

I really like the photo of the front of the abbey :-)

[compilerbitch.livejournal.com]

Actually, the abbey is *huge*, this is just a tiny part of it, but I thought it looked nice so here it is!

[new-brunette.livejournal.com]

Nice tonal distribution in the first - looks like it was worth the complex faff with layers. Good series, in fact!

[compilerbitch.livejournal.com]

It's basically what I might have done, many moons ago, with very careful dodging and burning with quite a hard paper. Mind you, with the control that photoshop gives, I'm not sure I'd have got things quite as dead on as I'd have liked.

[new-brunette.livejournal.com]

Well quite. And it's nice to have that handy "Step Backwards" option which is absent from most darkrooms...

[panzerpenguin.livejournal.com]

That old couple are very reminiscent of the East Germans we saw.

[compilerbitch.livejournal.com]

Yes, I suppose they do look quite typical of most of the German tourists on the island, though I was in deepest Bavaria, not really very close to East Germany as-was.

See you later, assuming you're heading to the red rose this afternoon. :-)

[davefish.livejournal.com]

I am very impressed by the amount of work that you are putting into the shots in PS. It seems to be well worth it, as the images are great!

[compilerbitch.livejournal.com]

I always was a darkroom obsessive back in my film days, so this is really just the same thing but more so. I'm very picky, and I tend to have an image in my head of what I want, so I tend to use PS rather more aggressively than most people perhaps. Some of my images are almost better described as paintings or collages rather than photographs, but I tend to use those techniques to make things look better ('right', for want of a better word).

[davefish.livejournal.com]

I can't get myself into the PS way of thinking. But I can definitely see the parallels to darkroom work, and I would some sort of lessons :)