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Overprocessed ?

Post by Guy Van Hooveld »

I tried a few things in Photoshop to create a kind of HDR effect with a single exposure, or a kind of Dragan effect in BW. There is a commercial plugin available (Topaz) resulting in a similar result.

What do you think ? shall I throw them away ? shall we forget this post as quickly as possible ? I am NOT on drugs or any other stuff :D

Shoot !

shot in India with the 18-200VR on the D40x, jpeg out of camera

#1 the original one
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#2 color processing
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#3 the same after a BW conversion
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Post by Leen Koper »

Interesting.
I would use it only on a few places, like on the lemons (?) on her head and in her hands and erase the rest.
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Post by James »

I prefer the original personally, but think that the processed images do look interesting - did you use the brush tool in lightroom to do this? I've done similar a few times like here - like you, I'm not sure if it adds to the shot, but photography is art so I am sure that different people will like different types of post processing

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3041/258 ... a0cd_b.jpg
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Post by pam.meier »

I think this effect is rather subtle. I see it everywhere in images and I like it.
In this case I would use it on a copy of the original at 80% transparency.
But overall I like it very much.
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Post by DirkVermeirre »

My advice would be to do it on a separate layer, then erase the background because if that's also sharper and contrasty it looks artificial. I think that you would gain depth of the image when you erase the effect in the background and eventually in some parts of the figure on the foreground.
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Dirk
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