The Protector
Jul 20, 2015 10:17:39 #
The way she's holding her hand up seemed to me to say "Stop!, you shall not advance" Then I wondered what she was protecting...
Jul 20, 2015 10:25:10 #
Can you talk about your choices for the processing here, Erik? Very interesting!
Jul 20, 2015 10:37:44 #
Linda From Maine wrote:
Can you talk about your choices for the processing here, Erik? Very interesting!
Thank you Linda. I got up early and shot this in a small park near my house to get the "golden hour" lighting. When I got it home I applied a slight warming filter in PS to bring out the orange light a bit more and then, back in LR, I used the adjustment brush to de-saturate everything from the statue to the right. She seemed to me, to be holding back the advance of something and I thought maybe it was the leaching out of the colour and vibrancy from the world.
Maybe I read too much fantasy... :)
Jul 20, 2015 10:45:34 #
Erik_H wrote:
Thank you Linda. I got up early and shot this in a... (show quote)
Thank you, Erik! Very interesting to know. And no, I think your "fantasy" for this shot is creative and just right :)
Jul 20, 2015 10:54:24 #
Another quick question: did you envision this particular pp while you were photographing the statue?
Jul 20, 2015 11:22:00 #
Linda From Maine wrote:
Another quick question: did you envision this particular pp while you were photographing the statue?
Actually no. The original was a bit underexposed and when I brought up the exposure, the right hand side was a good but brighter so I started thinking about high-key and sepia toning, and ended up with this...
...Which made me think that she was holding back the light. Then I thought about de-saturating the bright areas (and taking out the power pole) :)
Jul 20, 2015 12:39:59 #
Frank2013
Loc: San Antonio, TX. & Milwaukee, WI.
Erik_H wrote:
Actually no. The original was a bit underexposed and when I brought up the exposure, the right hand side was a good but brighter so I started thinking about high-key and sepia toning, and ended up with this...
Very unique vision and interpretation H.
Jul 20, 2015 13:18:29 #
Erik_H wrote:
Actually no. The original was a bit underexposed and when I brought up the exposure, the right hand side was a good but brighter so I started thinking about high-key and sepia toning, and ended up with this...
Thanks again!
Jul 20, 2015 13:44:18 #
Frank2013 wrote:
Very unique vision and interpretation H.
Thank you Frank.
Jul 21, 2015 00:42:29 #
Erik_H wrote:
The way she's holding her hand up seemed to me to say "Stop!, you shall not advance" Then I wondered what she was protecting...
Hi, Eric,
An interesting treatment.
Particularly when I realized that her out-of-view left hand is holding that torch in front of her. (Flame is notoriously difficult for the sculptor to render...) . Her right hand is held in the manner used to reflect the torch's light to better illuminate her path...or whatever she is viewing...
Did you experiment with differing degrees of desaturation?
Dave in SD
Jul 21, 2015 18:35:03 #
Uuglypher wrote:
Hi, Eric,
An interesting treatment.
Particularly when I realized that her out-of-view left hand is holding that torch in front of her. (Flame is notoriously difficult for the sculptor to render...) . Her right hand is held in the manner used to reflect the torch's light to better illuminate her path...or whatever she is viewing...
Did you experiment with differing degrees of desaturation?
Dave in SD
An interesting treatment.
Particularly when I realized that her out-of-view left hand is holding that torch in front of her. (Flame is notoriously difficult for the sculptor to render...) . Her right hand is held in the manner used to reflect the torch's light to better illuminate her path...or whatever she is viewing...
Did you experiment with differing degrees of desaturation?
Dave in SD
Dave,
There are several statues like this in this little park, along with some cement benches around a couple of huge live oak trees, very tranquil setting, and I don't think that many people even know that it's there. Anyway, I have shot it in varying lighting conditions and have applied several "filters" and different saturation levels. Here is probably my favorite, just added a bit of vibrance in post.
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