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Vase

Els — Sun, 02 May 2010 21:59:32 +0000

It’s clear that I need a ‘deadline’ in order to actually decide on images to be posted here, and I’ve decided I’ll start the “52″ yesterday. That means I have 7 days for each photo in that project, and the first ‘deadline’ will be Saturday the 8th. (I do realise Friday the 7th would be more accurate with a 1st May start, but Saturdays are much better for last minute photo shoots than Fridays ;-))
So, the first image will be posted this week, but Saturday 8th May at the latest, and the 52nd one will have to be online by Saturday 30th April 2011.

Day 361: Patterns

Els — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:06:09 +0000

Taken with PowerShot A470.

Day 309: Abstract cookies

Els — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:36:55 +0000

Taken with the camera lens inside a plastic bag that had cookies before we ate them. The proof is in the crumbs ;-)

Day 286: Metal

Els — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:59:28 +0000

Day 279: Tyre tracks

Els — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:10:27 +0000

Taken with Nokia 5800 cam.

Day 278: Abstract

Els — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:37:45 +0000

Day 241: Lines

Els — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:59:26 +0000

Photo taken on 11 March.

Day 236: Colourful

Els — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:59:24 +0000

Day 219: Geeky Goo

Els — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:59:21 +0000

One day, when I was post-processing a photo, one of the kids came to the realisation I was a fake: “Oooh… you aren’t good at taking photos at all! You are just good at Photoshopping!” ;-)

Today I actually did fake the photo, but this time I’m gonna show the path I took from truth to fake. This first photo here, is the end result.

It started with a tin of Smart Mass from ThinkGeek:

I took a photo of it, by the ambient light from the window (5 meters away) and my monitor (white and blue light mainly):

In PhotoShop I first added automatic colours, which made it a bit brighter, and then cropped it:

I liked the result already, but decided to play with the curve tool anyway, so I added a layer for the curve tool, and started playing with the individual colours. Blue, green and red, and I only pulled each curve down or up, no S shapes or anything. This was the result:

And that’s when the problem started. Now I had two photos I liked. One with the correct (realistic) colour, albeit a good bit brighter, and one in a much less realistic colour, but showing better the metallic looking streaks that are really in the stuff.

Result: I couldn’t choose!

So, I saved a copy of it, just in case, and then got the erasor tool and selectively erased the darker layer:

But I still like each layer by itself as well, so the above is basically just an excuse to upload all 3 versions :-)

Day 218: Red shape

Els — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:59:07 +0000