Sep 2, 2010, 12:13
Alrightythen: this time a bit more manipulation.
Number 1: My original idea was to get the whole door, with brass letterbox and all. My positioning was off...and the lens' characteristics are not rectilinear enough. So, I cropped upon the doorknocker, getting a sense of its quite mysterious quality. I underexposed in conversion(and really should have subtracted compensation at the taking stage, I know), increasing contrast radically, then adding the mood more with a black soft brush. This also erased the distortion!
![[Image: 2373-brassknocker.jpg]](http://www.shuttertalk.com/forums/images/upload/2373-brassknocker.jpg)
Number 2: I ran my bleach-bypass sim on the lo-contrast initial conversion, aiming for street-documentary feel. I deliberately wanted to recreate the feel of push-processed Kodak Tri-X, so on top of the bleach-bypass(which gave me the blown contrast) I used Black and White Studio's Tri-X sim, but had to add more grain. Note that this is NOT noise...see how it leaves the shadows clear(noise would stack up in the shadows first)? Finally, to give it that emulsion look, I added a tad of diffusion to the highlights then used a pre-loaded tone curve to give neutral highlights but slightly warmer mids.
...and did you notice I flipped the image?...hence you can read the writing...just to give that touch of added interest in the image and raise a question in the viewer's mind. There's no answer, of course...I did it just to engage attention, so that the viewer does not fully know hwy they are engaged...! Suggestion and subliminalism...
![[Image: 2380-shopTri-X.jpg]](http://www.shuttertalk.com/forums/images/upload/2380-shopTri-X.jpg)
Number 1: My original idea was to get the whole door, with brass letterbox and all. My positioning was off...and the lens' characteristics are not rectilinear enough. So, I cropped upon the doorknocker, getting a sense of its quite mysterious quality. I underexposed in conversion(and really should have subtracted compensation at the taking stage, I know), increasing contrast radically, then adding the mood more with a black soft brush. This also erased the distortion!
Number 2: I ran my bleach-bypass sim on the lo-contrast initial conversion, aiming for street-documentary feel. I deliberately wanted to recreate the feel of push-processed Kodak Tri-X, so on top of the bleach-bypass(which gave me the blown contrast) I used Black and White Studio's Tri-X sim, but had to add more grain. Note that this is NOT noise...see how it leaves the shadows clear(noise would stack up in the shadows first)? Finally, to give it that emulsion look, I added a tad of diffusion to the highlights then used a pre-loaded tone curve to give neutral highlights but slightly warmer mids.
...and did you notice I flipped the image?...hence you can read the writing...just to give that touch of added interest in the image and raise a question in the viewer's mind. There's no answer, of course...I did it just to engage attention, so that the viewer does not fully know hwy they are engaged...! Suggestion and subliminalism...
