Show us your manipulated images - before and after

jhphotography wrote in post #15342860
before

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after a 7 exposure hdr

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may have gone overboard.

Anytime you can work to bring out the color in the sky it always tends to make for a must more intriguing shot.

Here's the original...crappy light end of day..

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Duck Soup wrote in post #14748169

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In the Field by Duck_ Soup, on Flickr

This cinema color, I dig alot. I would like to know how to do this.

Before is SOOC with all LR sliders at zero. No sharpening or NR applied. Adobe Std with a medium contrast curve. The after processed in both LR4.1 & PSCS5.

Alan

YipDog...that is incredible work. I hope to learn how to do amazing changes like that in PS. Love your finished product!

sgribbin wrote in post #15352734
YipDog...that is incredible work. I hope to learn how to do amazing changes like that in PS. Love your finished product!

Thanks! It's actually simpler than it looks. Because the lines of the plane are so crisp, using the quick selector was easy. A little tweak in the refine window and the entire background was removed. I then put one of my summer sunset pics behind it and applied a mild gradient over the plane to get some of the sky colors onto the plane.

Wow..thanks for the tip yipDog. I'm going to practice now with some of my photos.

I normally don't do complicated pixelbending and editing, but when it comes to architecture, and you're too poor to get a tilt shift...

Before:

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SOOC:

Before:

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Nice!

Nice job Rachel! I have to ask though if the bulb was not a product of more than the 'before' photo. I can see the filament in the reworked image which is not showing in the other.

I'm assuming she used a torch to light the bulb hence the visible filament. Torch then masked out. I could be wrong, it has been known

Edit: or would that be a composite image as opposed to a manipulated image?

Hinson wrote in post #15365695
Nice job Rachel! I have to ask though if the bulb was not a product of more than the 'before' photo. I can see the filament in the reworked image which is not showing in the other.

You're right. I used the before photo and then a stock image of a filament - very light. The cracks were overlaid as well. Thanks!

xpfloyd wrote in post #15365749
I'm assuming she used a torch to light the bulb hence the visible filament. Torch then masked out. I could be wrong, it has been known

Edit: or would that be a composite image as opposed to a manipulated image?

No, the bulb was white. I painted in the light and color. So yes, in a way you could classify it as a composite.

Nicely done all the same