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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 7/22/2007
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Hi Andre!
Sepia does indeed cause a very strong feeling of age and time. The image with the vignetting effect is even more effective now. Much like an old bottle of wine that one finds waiting in some cellar or old storage room - a witness of old times.
Thanks a lot for the ideas. Now, I try as always to translate the work in PS into work with camera/lens. I think is should be possible, and is a very interesting thing (to me), since it lets somebody understand the way light interacts with the lens and the film/CCD.
Have a nice Sunday,
Nick
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Vignetting + sepia, or sort of... :-D |
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 7/21/2007
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Hi Nick,
Yes, I find that the vignetting process, no matter how applied, definitely gives us that great antiqued look. Another little trick being a slight dose of sepia toning can enhance the false aging even further. They are nice easy little tricks that can work very effectively.
Andre
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 7/19/2007
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Oh no! Haunted/Fantasy you say? That is what happens working with PS! Now I am another haunted master! ;-)
No, seriously, it's nice to get some insight of this wonderful program, and if used with care it can be of great value. This image somehow looks much "older" to me with the vignbetting effect - as if it came from a time lying many many years back. Perhaps it is exactly this that causes the feeling of haunted?
Nick
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 7/18/2007
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Yes, It does work well on this image Nick.
That empty white space at the top was crying out for some darker edges to balance the image.
Now, the image has jumped into the "fantasy/haunted house category :)
Andre
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 7/18/2007
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Thank you very much for the very informative reply, Andre! It's of great help to me!
I think that I would be a bit afraid to put vaseline on the lens - couldn't that damage it somehow?
But I am very glad to discover the lighting effects of PS, since once again I can do some reverse engineering considering "what should have been done" at shooting time in order to achieve the same effect.
Here is my quite naive work with lighting effects. Well, not very impressive, but at least it follows your proposal. It does add much atmosphere to the image!
Nick
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Vignetting by using lighting effects of PS |
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 7/18/2007
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Grazie molto per il commento piacevole, Simone! Sono felice di leggere che considerare dalla disposizione del fuoco come così efficaci poiché era la mia propria intenzione anche.
Auguri,
Nick
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 7/18/2007
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Hi Nick,
I'm not really sure how to do a vignette straight from the camera to the negative, but I'm sure there is a way. I know some people have been known to put vaseline jelly on the lens in strategic areas, to get a certain effect. There might even be a vignette filter of some kind ?
In Photoshop, I use the feature called "lighting effects" With this tool, you can focus the light anywhere you want on the image and darken the edges however you want. That was the tool that I used to do the lighting for those birdman/ branch hands images.
Andre
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Simone Tagliaferri
{K:28180} 7/17/2007
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Bella. La scelta di mettere la casa fuori fuoco le regala un senso etereo, come di inafferrabilità rispetto al primo piano. Complimenti.
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 7/17/2007
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Thank you very very much for the nice and detailed comment, Mahassa! It is always a good thing to see that some intention for an image indeed worked the way it was meant.
Best wishes,
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 7/17/2007
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many thanks again for the nice detailed comment and the very intelligent suggestion, Andre, which I think would have worked perfectly! I just have to retry it following this way!
The vignetting would be also very interesting and add much, but how to do that? For camera only methodology I would try to underexpose and see what happens, but is there any way to do that afterwards using PS?
Cheers,
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 7/17/2007
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Yes, a bit mysterious, a bit unknown what might have happened, but still something much have happened, right? This is more or less the intention behind this image. Thanks a lot for the nice comment, Ahmed!
Nick
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Elle Elle
{K:10958} 7/17/2007
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Nick this shot is really nice, the DOF is very good,
you have achieved what you meant, the out of focus background as you said has worked very well,
and the shadow over the house has added much to it,
best wishes, mahassa
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 7/17/2007
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Hi Nick,
I think you have the right kind of DOF for what you are trying to achieve. You might even create a little more mystery if you blocked off even more of the house, and including more bushes. Although it might not have been photogenically possible from this angle. But I think you know what I mean.
I just thought of something else to add some more mystery... a little of that dark vignetting around the top corners especially would probably look very good in this image.
Andre
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Ahmed Ismail
{K:19853} 7/16/2007
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Nice idea! A sort of mysterious feel about the house! Beautiful b&w!
Regards, Ahmed
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