What Would You Do (#16)

[Nicole]

Another week of what would you do, and the call is still out for more pictures :) If you want your picture to be used in one of these threads, just drop me a PM with a link to the medium and large version of your picture and it will get used in the order that it is received.

This week, we have a picture from our most talkative member, jiminyClickit. Jim has helped so many of us see how an edit can fix up a picture, now it's your turn to show him what you've learned and edit one of his pictures.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1378/1216235443_929ac1be12.jpg

Available larger (http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1378/1216235443_2af551f0ee_o.jpg)

The "rules" of the game are simple. Take the picture, go do whatever edits you want to do with it, and then come back and show us what you've done and tell us how you did it. Couldn't be simpler.

So, let's see what you would do... who's first?

[shazzt]

This is probably a good example why you should never post process anything after a few glasses of red wine but c'est la vie.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/shazzt/1320371174/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1059/1320371174_81c38242d1.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="wwyd16" /></a>

I was attracted to the symmetry in the clouds at the lower half of the photo and wanted to emphasise that:

- I square cropped the photo
- duplicated the photo and rotated it 180 degrees and used an Overlay layer blend
- duplicated the original photo, moved to the top layer, inverted it, Guassian blur of about 7, overlay layer blend
That was it - kind of abstract. Cool photo - I hope I didn't butcher it too much!

[wulf]

I did a bit of work to create a stronger link between the upper and lower cloud areas, intensified the colours and cropped to emphasise the "mushroom cloud" effect.

The result is rather apocalyptic although, if you look closely, you will see I was a bit sloppy in making the foreground water drops and rivulets run smoothly over the adjusted background.

Wulf

[jiminyClickit]

wulf,

The storm was sudden and violent, too, and freaky with the Sun shining.

[subrataofkris]

Picked one of my photographs
Copied it to a new layer, duplicated it, used Gaussian blur to blur the edges
In one painted black
In the shadow, increased the red and reduced the opacity.
Made another vertical window frame on the left in the background
Sharpened the background

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/9802534@N06/1330344792/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1017/1330344792_6e19ce7df0.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="stormy-sky1" /></a>

[windrider86]

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1236/1329895755_52725d1712.jpg

This reminded me of a dreary Sunday afternoon, sitting and watching the rain fall out the window

[Digidave]

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1236/1329895755_52725d1712.jpg

This reminded me of a dreary Sunday afternoon, sitting and watching the rain fall out the window

Very nice work!! Love it!!:)

[Teewinot]

First of all, I think this shot is really cool already, so my edit isn't an improvement, but rather a slightly different take.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7845858@N05/1332609346/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1219/1332609346_3bc342ccda.jpg" width="305" height="500" alt="What you would do #16" /></a>

GOAL: No clear goal this time, except b&w conversion, more emphasis on droplets, and clearer background subject

What I did (in Paint Shop Pro 8):
-Cropped (went for the long narrow crop to accentuate droplets falling down the window)
-Desaturated
-Unsharp mask (radius 75, strength 30)
-Histogram adjustment (-15)
-Added a little green
-Rotated shot .6 degrees to get the droplets more vertical
-Rotated entire shot 180 degrees so "trees" would be upright and seem more like the background subject (perhaps in real life these are branches??)
-Added black borders for mood

[hpebley3]

This reminded me of a dreary Sunday afternoon, sitting and watching the rain fall out the window

Wow! Beautiful work!

[pcarfan]

The image is beautiful as is.

- Boosted the saturatio
- Curves for contrast
- Blending mode 'softlight' and masking some areas from softlight
-Crop
-Place the frame

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e381/pcarfan/storm-Edit1.jpg

[peeperita]

i wasn't the first to think of creating a window......

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/10338505@N05/1332629389/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1143/1332629389_45e517b87b.jpg" width="368" height="500" alt="jcrd" /></a>

i've said it before and i'll say it again....i love this thread....

thanks

peeper

[hpebley3]

My take was similar to others:

<a href="http://www.zooomr.com/photos/hpebley3/3157513/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.zooomr.com/images/3157513_c5c629dc3e.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="WWYD 16" /></a>


- Rotated 180 degrees.
- Cropped.
- Histogram adjustment.
- Curves adjustment.
- Saturation adjustment.

[odark30]

I remember driving thru a storm similar to this....
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/50027271@N00/1334486910/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1327/1334486910_54ad59a23a.jpg" width="500" height="460" alt="Tahoe" /></a>

[jiminyClickit]

Without a doubt, some of the most creative minds come here to play. Thank heavens for the open-display/non-competitive feature, where everyone wins by playing. This is three more ideas than I could conjure. Very good work, on a shoot-first, ask-questions-after photo. I'm glad it worked out for the thread.

[windrider86]

I love this thread the best. It gives us a chance to be creative with someone elses work (therefore enhancing our own) and also gives us new ideas to play upon.

[pcarfan]

I remember driving thru a storm similar to this....
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/50027271@N00/1334486910/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1327/1334486910_54ad59a23a.jpg" width="500" height="460" alt="Tahoe" /></a>


I really like this....placing an object with a slogan was what I really wanted to do, but alas the lack of imagination got in the way. You have done a great job......I would love to see if anyone else can think of different objects/slogans to go with this BG.

[Todd]

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1236/1329895755_52725d1712.jpg

This reminded me of a dreary Sunday afternoon, sitting and watching the rain fall out the window

very nice I'm jealous:p

[windrider86]

Dont be, I didnt do a great job with the flower edges. I saw this post 15 minutes before I ahd to go to work but just couldnt resist.
But I thank you most graciously for the compliment!

[malaya]

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/malayangpinay/1345546846/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1290/1345546846_d6112be410.jpg" width="366" height="500" alt="in the clouds" /></a>

Here's my take. Like some people here I wanted to bring a different interpretation of the photo and add a new element into it.

- Inverted the photo
- Played around with hue and saturation, contrast and selective color
- Inserted the picture of the girl and played around with its hue and saturation. Placed layer at lighten.
- Applied underbrush filter

I love the original photo by the way.

[jiminyClickit]

malaya,

Thank you so much. It's been enlightening to see the variety of ways it can be used.

[jiminyClickit]

So, I might be the last one to post. Some easy moves on this one, starting with a crop. I resized to 4:3 aspect, which stretched out the clouds and made the raindrops a little fatter. One layer added that was Unsharp Masked 4-5 times to get a lot of detail in the drops. Some Saturation and Contrast.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/47146451@N00/1358148613/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1314/1358148613_653a8d9eee.jpg" width="500" height="382" alt="WWYD16x" /></a>

[Flippant]

Here is my take on it.
<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/shaunkt/RetouchingAssignmentsUploadedToDPS/photo?authkey=26N5Weqv7Fg#5108971843735559794"><img src="http://lh5.google.com/shaunkt/Rua20slUnnI/AAAAAAAABGc/wbA_KrFOX4o/s144/sunset-rain-conv.jpg" /></a>

[cjbnc]

It looked like a forest fire to me, so I made up the view from the local fire tower.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cjbnc/1361821383/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1286/1361821383_e0af6535de_o.jpg" width="520" height="390" alt="Tower watching the fire" /></a>

Tower image found on flickr, credit given in the comments. Inverted the image and duplicated parts of it for the side windows. Little darkening in the tower to match the mood.

[jiminyClickit]

Flippant,
cjbnc,

Very innovative. Good work there.