The Dark Wardrobe

Hi,

Once upon a time, I was 6 and my teacher was used to scare any pupil with the Dark Wardrobe behind us, at the back of the class room.

A kind of revival trip today, with a 2010 (a pity I haven't an old ugly black one) Dark Wardrobe, and the Hand, that lives in it...

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SuperB lightning, but not really scary, maybe do some pp?

Thank you for your interest.

You're right. The wardrobe is too clean, too "21st century". I'm not used with hard PP (with Gimp or Photoshop), and try to get the best result I can while shooting. So, i can't see really how I could alter the picture. Feel free to post your version.

Well im no PP expert either but here is my try on it:

In lightroom:

-Made the temperature more cooler
-Darkened the shadows
-Added contrast

In Photoshop CS5 trail edition:

-Made extra layers
-Cut out the hand using Quickmask
-Made three extra layers of the hand, one with white colour over it (opacity 33% overall image fill: 0%) and one with blue colour over it (color R-G-B: 33-66-99 opacity 33% overall image fill )%) and one grayscale.
-Merged the blue and white hand in eachother and added contrast 100%
-Burned the hand to make it darker

Had to remove the banner and made it some smaller to fit the 150kb upload requirements for this forum, sorry about that.

Result:

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