Originally posted by khardur
Background (how did you do it?) - I can find no fault with it other than to be nit picky and say crop a little of the excess "blank" space off the bottom.
The bottom bit was supposed to be cropped out but then I forgot about it.
Thank you for the compliment and you are the first person who actually likes the background.
Most of the critics turned it down, calling it distracting, messy, wrong mood, unnatural etc. But I liked that style anyway (for a period).
The background is very easy to create. Believe me - this only takes me 10 minutes in photoshop.
My original shot was a sky with stars in it shot with Fa 300mm f4.5. The photo is first duplicated with adjustment gradient using black and white graduation. This was successively added with 2 filled gradient layers: yellow and blue (you chose the directions of gradient with arrows).
At various stages, I added soft light and vivid light, mixing with clipping masks.
Then, the buddha shot
Was added to the background, using overlay mode.
Speaking of the pencil patterns, it is easy to create in photoshop (apparently a basic technique for most digital art people).
Create a new image and draw a line. Then select the white page and inverse - the line itself will be selected. Choose edit - transform with various forms of distortion you want. This is my version
Distort and warp it into a shape, then add it to the original image.
A little more touch up here and there. Then you got the final image.
There are a lot of ways to play around the images to get the desired effects. But I had been told that a "
good" photographer shall be able to get a good photo first time with absolutely no image manipulation or post processing.
Congrads to everyone that made the weekly competitions more fun each week.
Peter, that shot is really interesting until you reveal the "bigger" perspective! Really cool.
Workingdog, it is not about simplicity of the shot. It is more about the effectiveness of the photo. Your work conveys a sense of familarity - friendship mixing well with what men love - alcohol. Typically men