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Tabs
12-Apr-2004 13:56
Hi Camptown :) the power plant is near the Brazos Bend State Park on the SW side of Houston.
Ashot: Thank you for taking the time to comment on the photo and to show me how you feel it could be improved. I have actually messed with this one in photoshop a lot trying out different things. In the last challenge it was a high contrast B&W image for a while. In the end I keep coming back to the image as it is now which is basically how I saw it with the contrast bumped just a little. I see how cleaning the noise out of the background and making the background darker can pop the structure out. Thanks for sharing how that can be done - I am still learning my PS skills.
Cheers
T
camptown
11-Apr-2004 22:08
liked it in the last challenge, like it still...that wouldn't be out at Deer Park would it?
I really like this image for its simplicty; almost seems like a design of lines and dots:
I think though the fact that you can see noise in the background, and the certain details on the structure itself takes away from this effect, which is the strongest attribute of the image. Also it seems to me like the lights don't cover the entire gamut of the image.
I hope you don't mind but I made some adjustments to show you what I mean:
(the background was feather selected and darkened to remove the noise; the selection was inverted and copied to a new layer which was set to 'vivid light' and opacity reduced to somewhere around 40 percent)
I'm hoping that this isn't somehow against the rules, and that I don't offend you; you do have the star in the title. I really do like the image, I wouldn't have spent the time otherwise.
...but perhaps you are just an anti-PS naturalist =]
