Park Bench, experimental PP work..

[kordan]

I was trying to make this look a little less bright and sunny.. More of a sad, lonely kinda picture..

[RiveraRa]

Mind sharing how you got this look in PP?

[TSEE]

I think you achieved what you were going for. :)

[Cobra351]

That processing works well, I like it.

[Tommy]

I like what you did here... and you did achieve that sad & lonely look you were looking for.
Another approach you could take is by doing a B&W conversion, bumping up the contrast a little, and maybe adding a vignette to help focus attention on the empty bench... I'll try this at home tonight when I get home from work and see how it looks. But you have a great shot here, don't get me wrong! ;)

[MCB]

I like it, and second the vignette comment. You could get away with desaturating it even more, I think. Great shot. :)

[kordan]

Mind sharing how you got this look in PP?

I used the Dragan technique as a reference.

I tweaked the levels a bit to give some good contrast.
I increased the saturation of Yellow
Then Desaturated the master.
Manually burned some of the wood grain
Overlayed a brownish color and played with the opacity.

Pretty much it.. (sometimes I just experiment and dont' realize what I 'm doing.. I should make better note of what I do sometimes. )

[samckitt]

Sorry for the dumb question, what is PP?

[Tommy]

Sorry for the dumb question, what is PP?

PP = Post Processing (All the work done AFTER taking the shot, but before printing) ;)

[samckitt]

Gotcha, I was trying to think of some brand software that PP stood for.
Thanks.

[kenyc]

Well Done.

KAC

[olly_k]

I like what you did here... and you did achieve that sad & lonely look you were looking for.
Another approach you could take is by doing a B&W conversion, bumping up the contrast a little, and maybe adding a vignette to help focus attention on the empty bench... I'll try this at home tonight when I get home from work and see how it looks. But you have a great shot here, don't get me wrong! ;)

I would like to see that!

[Tommy]

Here ya go.... this is what I thought of when you said sad and lonely. ;) Now I'm NOT saying that you did it incorrectly... as a matter of fact, I like the way you processed your image. I'm just showing this as an example of another way of approaching things. ;) Hope you like it.

I did exactly what I said in my earlier post. B&W Conversion, bumped contrast (and lowered the brightness a tad), and added a vignette.

http://home.comcast.net/~tommy723/photos/bench2.jpg

[insideshot]

Very creative and nice

[saravrose]

like them both.. the black and white does it for me though...