On Aug 30, 2005, at 5:15 AM, Tim Øsleby wrote:
... You have seen the picture before.
This time I've tried a simple Channel Mix.
20 red, 70% green and 10% blue. The values Shel suggested as a
starting
point. I fiddled a bit back and forth, but ended up with this. It
came out
Ok-, but nothing more.
Anybody got better ideas? A better mix, another solution? Not too
fancy
please, I'm a total newbie at this.
...
http://foto.no/cgi-bin/bildegalleri/vis_bilde.cgi?id=191903
You chose a fairly difficult photo to start with. The subtle tones in
this scene are all pretty close together and the granular texture of
the statuary makes it difficult to work with. I remember seeing it in
color before but can't find the link.
It's hard to work with a low-rez JPEG file, given an image like this,
so don't think this is "finished" work, but just points a direction
I'd play with in terms of going to a B&W rendering.
http://homepage.mac.com/godders/191800-g2.jpg
My goals were:
1) separate the tonal values in the primary subjects of statue and man
from the sky/background.
2) reduce the importance of the sky and background.
3) highlight and draw attention to the faces
4) simplify forms and textures in terms of tonal qualities, not color
differentiation
It's a bit heavy handed (not least because I did this working on my
laptop this morning rather than on my desktop system... trackpads are
poor for precise control of a brush! ;-) Note that the grain and
textures could be MUCH better if I had the original RAW file
available that I could re-process.
hope that helps.
Godfrey
