Your opinion on post-process.

[BlurHead]

I went back there and redid the shot. The same musician was still there at the exact same spot. I only had a few seconds before a crowd of people came in, so it's not perfect. I would appreciate your opinion on the processing.

Original

http://pages.infinit.net/puzband/musician3.jpg

Processed

http://pages.infinit.net/puzband/musician4.jpg

[Scottes]

The processing definitely works well. And the lack of blurriness is nice, too, compared to the original.

[Penguin_101_1]

I like the post processing better too but I think that the red thing is distracting.

[whowie]

The post processing is great but IMHO it makes the image too sterile. I prefer your original with the blur; it adds mystery, intrigue, and mood to the image. In fact, I think I'd try the orginal in B+W with a little grain for effect. The story I'd be looking for is ...here's a guy, alone, at the end of a long hallway. Who is he? Why is there? Thug or innocent bystander? Hard luck or ....etc, etc. Just IMHO!

[Penguin_101_1]

I hope you don't mind but I photoshoped it a little and came up with this: DELETED-SEE OTHER POST

I took a lot of whowie's ideas and made it and I cloned out the red thing on the floor.

[LightHunter]

I like the B/W version the most

but as a final touch I would

1. make it horizontal (clockwize turn of a couple of degrees).
2. remove the black "speckle" just above the doors in the ceiling.

For me it could be the story of an imperfect musician - therefore without audience - in a stage he could improve if he would move a bit further, so leaving this tunnel towards the outer world full of listeners.

I hope you don't mind but I photoshoped it a little and came up with this:http://images.fotopic.net/?id=4796468&outx=600&noresize=1&nostamp=1

I took a lot of whowie's ideas and made it and I cloned out the read thing on the floor.

[Penguin_101_1]

I took out the spot above the doors. I had to delete my other photoshop to post this.

http://images.fotopic.net/?id=4809678&outx=600&noresize=1&nostamp=1

[BlurHead]

I should've told you guys I was trying to make the image look as real as possible, with realistic lighting. But thanks for the ideas!

[Penguin_101_1]

You could take B+W film and take that photo like I photoshopped it.

[BlurHead]

Here's what I came up with by removing colors, adding noise, removing some imperfections and lighting up the end of the corridor to uncover a third character. My first goal was to correct a bad lihgting, and now you made me post-process to reveal an artistic meaning. Oh I love forums :)



http://pages.infinit.net/puzband/indifference.jpg

[whowie]

Very nice, BlurHead. I think this is now an awesome image! It has character, movement, mystery and is a great composition to boot. Great job.

[Penguin_101_1]

That looks good but IMO just a bit too much noise.

[BlurHead]

Thanks! For my part, the more I look at it, the less I like it. I feel like I lost the subtle ceiling lighting.

[whowie]

Remember, its your image so, its what you like that counts!

[Penguin_101_1]

Ok how about this? I changed the lighting and took out the red paper and added some grain. http://images.fotopic.net/?id=4819494&outx=600&noresize=1&nostamp=1