Robyn hosts the One Four Challenge at Robyn’s Fine Art – one of our own photos edited four ways over the course of the month. This month I’m just going to play and see what develops – pun intended 🙂 This is my original photo, taken in Montreal on a drippy early evening in March. 1. adjust the lighting
2. adjust the detail
3 & 4. play with the edges
5. adjust the curve
6. add a soft focus just for fun
7. brighten it
8. adjust the detail again – perhaps I shouldn’t have added the soft focus 🙂
9. adjust the colour cast. The resulting image:
I have to say, when I did all this, I subsequently inadvertently deleted all the images of the steps 😦 SO, i proceeded to repeat what I did in order to recapture the steps and just to prove that they will never turn out exactly the same, below is the image I had after completing the above steps the first time, as opposed to the one above. I prefer the cleaner look of this one.
The original image can be improved by a lot and the grunge feel I get does reflect the emotion sometimes when walking in the rain.
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Thank you, Ben. When I finished I felt that, glad you did too.
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Beautiful week 1! 🙂
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Thank you, Pike
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I really like rainy city shots! I really like what you did with this edit. I like the one you called “cleaner” too, but they are both great!! I wonder what you will do next?!?
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Hmmmmm …
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😀
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I just love city shots like these, especially with the rain! So much to play with and so much potential.
Once again, your end results give such a wonderful painterly feel, especially with the touch of strong primaries.
Great play Lynne! 🙂
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I agree, I prefer the second try, which is smoother and doesn’t have the ghosting around the buildings.
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Actually that was the first try 🙂 – the one in the slide show labelled ‘same steps different result’, where I probably took a bit more time in the various steps than I did when trying to recreate it for the post
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So envious you got rain..! we badly need some here in Vancouver sigh 🙂
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Really! Vancouver needs rain? That doesn’t happen often 🙂
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One of those really yucky summers :S
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