Thread: What do you think?

Thought i'd share this photo with people here and see what you think.

I took it last year at night absolutly by accident, well I took it in the dark without the flash on (I forgot to press the button to open the flash) and this was the result. I thought it was pretty good, so I kept it.

I think I might darken the black parrts of it in PS though, so they don't look so fuzzy.



Any comments appreciated,
Thanks,
TS

Freaky mg:

Very moody pic TS. Reminds me of taking a pic 10 years ago. There was a hole in the wall on my route back from college, looking into an empty factory. It was really dark inside. Had my camera so I did a long exposure shot, and when the film was developed it looked a little like there were people standing in that dark space.

Shivers ran down my spine. mg:

Originally Posted by Halobitt

Very moody pic TS. Reminds me of taking a pic 10 years ago. There was a hole in the wall on my route back from college, looking into an empty factory. It was really dark inside. Had my camera so I did a long exposure shot, and when the film was developed it looked a little like there were people standing in that dark space.

Shivers ran down my spine. mg:

Now that would have been weird.

I just thought it was quite a nice effect I got without doing anything special. The yellow glow in the background is the glow of a city below (we were on top of a hill in the middle of the city I live in). Those are people standing at the top next to a bench (think there was 3 or 4 of them), so it wasn't really a surprise to get their silluettes, but it was to get them in different darknesses like that.

Originally Posted by tsdesigns

... (we were on top of a hill in the middle of the city I live in).

That hill wouldn't happen to be the Law Hill would it? :ssmiley:

Originally Posted by Halobitt

That hill wouldn't happen to be the Law Hill would it? :ssmiley:

Aye, the Dundee Law it is

Live near it actually.

Originally Posted by tsdesigns

Thought i'd share this photo with people here and see what you think.

I took it last year at night absolutly by accident, well I took it in the dark without the flash on (I forgot to press the button to open the flash) and this was the result. I thought it was pretty good, so I kept it.

I think I might darken the black parrts of it in PS though, so they don't look so fuzzy.



Any comments appreciated,
Thanks,
TS

:sshocked: burn it! in PS :sgrin:

very :scool: - I wish my mistakes were as artistic as this! this picture is 12.773X's better than any other picture I could go find on any myspace photo group (save mine of course :stongue

I dig(g) it! :swink:

Originally Posted by tsdesigns

Aye, the Dundee Law it is

Live near it actually.

That's where I took my photo! (Dundee, bottom of Blackness Rd).
Guess it's just a spooky town. :grin:

Originally Posted by Halobitt

That's where I took my photo! (Dundee, bottom of Blackness Rd).
Guess it's just a spooky town. :grin:

Your photo?
My mate lives on blackness...

Well people have been found dead up there quite a bit...

Oh and Tim, burn it? What do you mean by that? I'm still a PS noob really.

Originally Posted by tsdesigns

Your photo?
My mate lives on blackness...

Well people have been found dead up there quite a bit...

Oh and Tim, burn it? What do you mean by that? I'm still a PS noob really.

n00b! :stongue:

this explains it better than I possibly could :ssmiley:
Photoshop Burn, Dodge and Sponge Tools

Originally Posted by tsdesigns

Oh and Tim, burn it? What do you mean by that? I'm still a PS noob really.

I'm glad you asked. I didn't know it either! :sblush:

Originally Posted by Pretty Baby

I'm glad you asked. I didn't know it either! :sblush:

it's a great tool. I burn a lot more than I dodge...:ssmiley:

Originally Posted by tsdesigns

Your photo?

My pic I described taking in post #3 ^

Originally Posted by tsdesigns

Well people have been found dead up there quite a bit...

Are they still as bad up there?

Originally Posted by Snuggle Bums Teddy Bear

it's a great tool. I burn a lot more than I dodge...:ssmiley:

You know they make a cream for that!

Originally Posted by GRIM

You know they make a cream for that!

special tipped applicator I hope! :sshhh:

Originally Posted by Biscuit

My pic I described taking in post #3 ^

Are they still as bad up there?

Oh yeah, sorry totally forgot about what you had described by the time I read the next post.

It's not as bad as it used to be up there now, they have a security guy who pretty much stays up there every night now I think.

Originally Posted by Snuggle Bums Teddy Bear

n00b! :stongue:

this explains it better than I possibly could :ssmiley:
Photoshop Burn, Dodge and Sponge Tools

Thanks I'll try it out tomorow after uni...right now it's time to sleep

tsdesigns added 72 Minutes and 33 Seconds later...

So I couldn't sleep and decided i'd do this now rather than tomorow.

How do you think the darkening came along? The original is in the first post so I won't bother posting it again.

, ORIG:

I'll bother! as I am lazy!! to lazy to scroll??? you bet

lol okay

I was just too lazy to go and get the code again, cause i'd only asked shareapic to produce the one photo.

Ah well, how do you think it came along?
I think I could have/should do better on the shaddows of people & the bench, but I was glad to get the fuzzyness away from the hill

hmm tough one, actually I think I prefer the original over the edited, at least as far as the bench and silhouettes are concerned.

Yeah, so do I. Might try doing it with just the hill darkened, see if I like that better.

Originally Posted by tsdesigns

lol okay

I was just too lazy to go and get the code again, cause i'd only asked shareapic to produce the one photo.

Ah well, how do you think it came along?
I think I could have/should do better on the shaddows of people & the bench, but I was glad to get the fuzzyness away from the hill

yeah, less noise = good most of the time and the burning of the hill took care of that.

one of the things that's great about PS...there are usually 3+ ways of doing the same thing.

I tried a QDE (quick & dirty edit)

I used a 'brightness & contrast' adjustment layer and then burned the hill

Yeah i've just done an edit, but I still don't like the noise on the bench and silluettes, might ask some of my mates who are much better at PS if they know of a way to get rid of that...without using a tiny burn and taking ages.

unique pic didn't understand