Here's a very average one then!
My garden shot through the patio door window (as I'm too lazy to go outside!)
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Photo Of The Day - December 2017
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Joe King said:The post-processing involved is quite extensive – much, much more than my colour work, which in most cases has involved little more than a few adjustments in Lightroom (15-20 minutes work per picture on average). Here, the work can take hours.
The technique for taking and processing these pictures follows that pioneered by the likes of Joel Tjintjelaar and Julia Anna Gospodaru. Work by Jay Vulture, Gediminas Karbauskis and Jin Mikami have also been influential. Joel Tjintjelaar's website contains a number of useful tutorials on the techniques used.
Most shots are long exposures using either a 10 or 16 stop neutral density filter with exposure times of anything from 30 seconds to 5 minutes. This eliminates any people or traffic at street level and smooths out the sky. In a few cases I've cheated and replaced the sky altogether.
The post processing involves:-
- Initial developing in Lightroom to correct any perspective issues and to produce a neutral, rather flat image with limited contrast.
- Conversion to black and white in Silver Efex Pro.
- Moving into Photoshop to make an often painstaking series of selections of elements of the picture, mainly using the pen tool but also using other select and mask techniques such as channels, colour range selection and luminosity masks. The picture posted below has several hundred individual selections. This is the longest and most tedious part of the process.
- Using the selections I have made in combination with Photoshop's Layer Mask, Curves and Gradient tools to build up the light and dark portions of the image.
- Tidying up removing any artefacts, halos etc. caused by the processing and applying sharpening as required.
- Returning to Lightroom for final tweaks to the image, plus captioning, keywording and geotagging.
There is a lot of work involved in putting together these images – including a lot more time in front of a computer that I'd really like – but the payoff in terms of personal satisfaction has been worth it (so far).
No changes have been made to the physical structure of the subjects, bar removing some distracting elements that are not integral to the buildings, such as poles or wires. The consequence of the processing described above is that the light that appears to fall on the buildings is almost completely artificial. The intention is to create a highly subjective view of each building – one that uses light and shade to emphasise and highlight shape, form and volume.
Today’s picture is the first of a trilogy of shots of a cluster of buildings that are widely regarded as Dublin’s ugliest buildings:-
Hawkins House by Joe, on Flickr
Thanks for that, I'm pretty knowledgeable with those advanced PS techniques and processes like LM's and pen paths for selections etc (although rarely use them) but not the recipe for the 'look' as such. Your post has helped and I'll look into it and maybe give it a bash when the time comes. I was just curious to see what goes into those style of images because I've had some ideas that would suit this style. Thanks again.
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Gus's 1st birthday
Gus Birthday-2017121006 by Charles Martorelli, on Flickr
Gus's 1st birthday
Gus Birthday-2017121006 by Charles Martorelli, on Flickr
Happy Birthday Gus!!!!
Glad to see you got Lei'd on your birthday....
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My late grandmother used to ask if they were gasometers. There was a bit of fad for circular plan churches for a while, arising from the aims of the Second Vatican Council to make the church more equal and inclusive, giving the congregation the feeling they are in Mass together. This is a lesser known later work by the late Liam McCormick, who was one of Ireland's best 20th century architects, mainly known for his churches. His Church of St Aengus in Burt, County Donegal was voted Irish Building of the 20th Century. I hoping to make it up there some time next year to see if I can get a few shots.
The post-processing involved is quite extensive – much, much more than my colour work, which in most cases has involved little more than a few adjustments in Lightroom (15-20 minutes work per picture on average). Here, the work can take hours.
The technique for taking and processing these pictures follows that pioneered by the likes of Joel Tjintjelaar and Julia Anna Gospodaru. Work by Jay Vulture, Gediminas Karbauskis and Jin Mikami have also been influential. Joel Tjintjelaar's website contains a number of useful tutorials on the techniques used.
Most shots are long exposures using either a 10 or 16 stop neutral density filter with exposure times of anything from 30 seconds to 5 minutes. This eliminates any people or traffic at street level and smooths out the sky. In a few cases I've cheated and replaced the sky altogether.
The post processing involves:-
- Initial developing in Lightroom to correct any perspective issues and to produce a neutral, rather flat image with limited contrast.
- Conversion to black and white in Silver Efex Pro.
- Moving into Photoshop to make an often painstaking series of selections of elements of the picture, mainly using the pen tool but also using other select and mask techniques such as channels, colour range selection and luminosity masks. The picture posted below has several hundred individual selections. This is the longest and most tedious part of the process.
- Using the selections I have made in combination with Photoshop's Layer Mask, Curves and Gradient tools to build up the light and dark portions of the image.
- Tidying up removing any artefacts, halos etc. caused by the processing and applying sharpening as required.
- Returning to Lightroom for final tweaks to the image, plus captioning, keywording and geotagging.
There is a lot of work involved in putting together these images – including a lot more time in front of a computer that I'd really like – but the payoff in terms of personal satisfaction has been worth it (so far).
No changes have been made to the physical structure of the subjects, bar removing some distracting elements that are not integral to the buildings, such as poles or wires. The consequence of the processing described above is that the light that appears to fall on the buildings is almost completely artificial. The intention is to create a highly subjective view of each building – one that uses light and shade to emphasise and highlight shape, form and volume.
Today’s picture is the first of a trilogy of shots of a cluster of buildings that are widely regarded as Dublin’s ugliest buildings:-
Hawkins House by Joe, on Flickr
What...you're not just desaturating the colours!
I have to say that I'm loving your B&W images Joe and and the effort that you put into them is clearly evident in the outstanding results.
And thanks for putting-up the detailed reply to Mark0 - lots of good reading there.
~ Peter
My late grandmother used to ask if they were gasometers. There was a bit of fad for circular plan churches for a while, arising from the aims of the Second Vatican Council to make the church more equal and inclusive, giving the congregation the feeling they are in Mass together. This is a lesser known later work by the late Liam McCormick, who was one of Ireland's best 20th century architects, mainly known for his churches. His Church of St Aengus in Burt, County Donegal was voted Irish Building of the 20th Century. I hoping to make it up there some time next year to see if I can get a few shots.
The post-processing involved is quite extensive – much, much more than my colour work, which in most cases has involved little more than a few adjustments in Lightroom (15-20 minutes work per picture on average). Here, the work can take hours.
The technique for taking and processing these pictures follows that pioneered by the likes of Joel Tjintjelaar and Julia Anna Gospodaru. Work by Jay Vulture, Gediminas Karbauskis and Jin Mikami have also been influential. Joel Tjintjelaar's website contains a number of useful tutorials on the techniques used.
Most shots are long exposures using either a 10 or 16 stop neutral density filter with exposure times of anything from 30 seconds to 5 minutes. This eliminates any people or traffic at street level and smooths out the sky. In a few cases I've cheated and replaced the sky altogether.
The post processing involves:-
- Initial developing in Lightroom to correct any perspective issues and to produce a neutral, rather flat image with limited contrast.
- Conversion to black and white in Silver Efex Pro.
- Moving into Photoshop to make an often painstaking series of selections of elements of the picture, mainly using the pen tool but also using other select and mask techniques such as channels, colour range selection and luminosity masks. The picture posted below has several hundred individual selections. This is the longest and most tedious part of the process.
- Using the selections I have made in combination with Photoshop's Layer Mask, Curves and Gradient tools to build up the light and dark portions of the image.
- Tidying up removing any artefacts, halos etc. caused by the processing and applying sharpening as required.
- Returning to Lightroom for final tweaks to the image, plus captioning, keywording and geotagging.
There is a lot of work involved in putting together these images – including a lot more time in front of a computer that I'd really like – but the payoff in terms of personal satisfaction has been worth it (so far).
No changes have been made to the physical structure of the subjects, bar removing some distracting elements that are not integral to the buildings, such as poles or wires. The consequence of the processing described above is that the light that appears to fall on the buildings is almost completely artificial. The intention is to create a highly subjective view of each building – one that uses light and shade to emphasise and highlight shape, form and volume.
Today’s picture is the first of a trilogy of shots of a cluster of buildings that are widely regarded as Dublin’s ugliest buildings:-
Hawkins House by Joe, on Flickr
Ah! (en)Visionography??? I am reading their book. Packed with info but man! heavy going
Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church, San Francisco
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I can see the electricity meters running hot.
Here's a very average one then!
My garden shot through the patio door window (as I'm too lazy to go outside!)
Too lazy to fix your white balance in post as well fella?
Classic blue snow look because however smart our cameras are they still get befuddled by snow.
Isn’t it great how snow can even make mine and your gardens look pretty.
Actually it still struggles with mine.And to think that this is just a portion of one side of the street! But it is very nice, you see plenty of people bringing their children and students from a nearby university. Enterprising homeowners sell hot chocolate to raise money for a favorite charity, exhibit their art, or charge for parking at a nearby lot. All in all it's a fun and festive atmosphere.
Brrr. I can really feel the cold in that picture. Not easy to capture.
I increased the blue channel because I preferred the look. It was pretty shady. Mostly though I was just trying to hide my reflection in the shed!Too lazy to fix your white balance in post as well fella?
Classic blue snow look because however smart our cameras are they still get befuddled by snow.
Isn’t it great how snow can even make mine and your gardens look pretty.Actually it still struggles with mine.
Mate, theres no need to be ashamed.... Loads of people still shoot Nikons....
sorry feeling a bit cheeky tonightMate, theres no need to be ashamed.... Loads of people still shoot Nikons....
Mate we need to be careful here. People with M9's shouldn’t throw stones when it comes to white balance issues
Don't make me come up there and slap you!Mate, theres no need to be ashamed.... Loads of people still shoot Nikons....
Anymore of that talk and I'll PM Mrs Kenoh and tell her you've been lusting after those M10's again!
On the subject of lust have any of you had a load of unwanted contact on Flickr today?
Oh and there was me thinking I was special and an attractive young lady opening her blouse was genuinely interested in me.
We all think you are 'special'!
That’s what my wife....sorry carer says.