A collection of inventive beginnings... -someone

[someone]

I'm gonna start with mostly old pictures, since I haven't gotten my camera out in a while really... tell me what you think!

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And one new one...

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[someone]

I was messing around with that last one and fixed the histogram a little...



And what, no crits?

[cleonor]

Was your last photograph taken at the same time as your submission for the abstract? I think it would be really nice to see those two color corrected to the same levels and put beside each other. I think they'd look nice with a white matte frame or something similar.

The first image is also really interesting to me. I like how you almost, but not quite made it grayscale. The blue quality is what I think makes it flow well with the water. I wouldn't mind seeing the low side of that pipe like object, it sort of fades off. However, you may have reasons for doing so because it does almost act like a gradation.

Anyway, I'm curious to see more work from you in the future, and congrats for getting so many votes in the poll. ^.^

[someone]

Hey man thanks! They were taken at the same time... I'll touch the other up the same way I did this one and see what they look like together or even in a triptych maybe...

I was just working with available light (which wasn't much) for the first one, so that's why the bottom isn't as clear as it would be optimally

[DIGme]

Absoulutely fan of the second one !!
This grass is transformed into tree. A very very nice shot to me !

[someone]

Was messing around tonight... here are the results:

Mistake

[purplerose]

Nice one, could be a bit sharper though. The noise adds to the mood/concept of the photo.

[someone]

Yeah I actually added a bunch of noise in PS afterword... I tried sharpening it a little there but mainly I just got it a little bit out of focus so I don't think I can fix it much now

[someone]

It's been a LONG time. I really have to go out with my camera more often........

One new picture from today. Lot's of PS on this one :P

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[Nike]

I love the concept of "Mistake". I agree with purplerose on the sharpness issue, but the idea is awesome.

The last one looks interesting. What exactly did you do with it in photoshop?

Shoot more often

[someone]

Hey Nike thanks for commenting! Sorry I haven't been around to respond :P

First off: the triptych from the picture earlier in this thread and my submission to the "abstract" photochallenge:



As for the edits on the last one... I took the "desaturate" tool and manually desaturated all of the grey areas, and then bumped up the yellows a TON. I also burned the top left/bottom right corners and from them almost to the middle a little bit in a sort of gradient effect

[EvrEst]

Hmm I like it. colors may be a bit muted for my taste but thats bc I have a fetish for color! I would like to see some more industrial shots from ya. maybe mix your taste for abstract with architecture and oudoor stills some more? Keep em coming!

[someone]

Good news! I will probably be getting a new camera soon now (it has gone from "hoping" to "happening"), and then I can actually start getting some new pictures. yay

For now, I pirated CS4 (or am working on it... now the serial number I used "isn't valid". imagine that :P) and wanted to try it out, so this is a picture I took probably 3 years ago that I never touched up. Since it's starting to feel like winter (at least where I live), I thought it would be fitting:

Snowglobe

[Dzonila]

Interesting detail.

[Hookswords]

the puddle reflecting the streetlight/telephone pole is awesome