What Would You Do (#62)

[Nicole]

It's time for another week of WWYD

This week's photo is one that Sandie sent to me a few months back (we used one of the photos then, but this one was just sitting and waiting for an opportunity. )



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The rules for WWYD are simple as always. Use the photo in this post, edit it, come back, and show us your results and give us a description of what you did so we can learn too. It doesn't matter what level of skill you have or what program you use, because believe it or not, these threads can be of enormous help in just helping you learn how to do things (I know they've helped me through practice).

If you'd like your picture to be the subject of one of these threads, send me a PM with a link to a medium and large version of the image. Easy as that!

Now, let's see what you would do!

[genielamb]

Had so many ideas running through my head with this one. Wanted to make better use of the 'Broken glass and ball' in the corner but,..... this is what I came up with..



Basically worked in layers, created sepia effect, masked out the sky and traffic light (the new), played with contrast and saturation to really make the building look old and stand out. Added a frame and voila!

[Nicole]

Oooh, gives it a very different look

[Sime]

Um... well, I wanted High Contrast black and white, as ever... But then decided that I liked the brick work... so, tried to bring that out... I used Lightroom to do this... (settings below) then I thought that i'd try make it look all grainy... then, like a painting... and, well.. I ended up with this!...



Lightroom settings / tweaks

[jiminyClickit]

Divine inspiration, or simple absurd humor? Who knows; it seemed a good way to fill the sky.

Reduced original to a reasonable size, used as bottom layer

- Copied/Pasted mirror/glass building from original to smaller copy, to match resolution better
- Trimmed to fit next to other building, after adding extra canvas area on right
- Added new sky, on Overlay at 40% Opacity
- Added "God and Adam" hands
- Copied Adam's hand, Desaturated, Darkened, Blurred, placed over bat and building at 30% Opacity, Darken Mode
- Added vignette to focus more attention on center

[windrider86]

duplicate.Selection around baseball on the wall. copy-paste as a new layer. Place on new wall and resize. Displacement map. Erase blue edges. merge all. crop photo. select area around baseball and clone to get rid of tree branches. do the same around the brick area to remove light pole. Used a laquer plug in to create effect. Picture tube for baseball hat

[xxpinballxx]

Here's mine...tone mapped converted to B&W and vignetting added a soft blur and then re-sharened. Some have asked me why i would would add a guassian blur and then resharpen the image.
I find when i havea sky thats particularly noisy i can blur the image to get the sky softer then resharpen and it will bring the sky back as far as the other subjects with harder edges....might be in my mind but seems to work for me....lol!

[Nathan deGargoyle]

Now if you colonials would just learn to appreciate a decent game....

[Taallyn]

You forgot to replace the flag with a Union Jack.

[private]

LOLl Nathan, LOL.