My Image Your View: Ride'm Cowboy, Mesquite TX
Aug 5, 2018 00:44:40 #
kenievans
Loc: Dallas
In honor of my beloved home state of Texas I bring to you Professional Bull Riding at the Mesquite Championship Rodeo. This rodeo is performed every Saturday night from April to September. It is an extremely dangerous sport. The cowboys you see on the ground are very experienced and athletic "bull fighters" that are there to protect the rider if he is thrown, by distracting the bull.
Please feel free to download this photo to your computer and edit it anyway you feel is appropriate. You can do crops color shifts, composites, adjustments ow whatever you feel is appropriate. When you have completed your edit just post it in this thread. On Thursday Aug 16 we will stop accepting edits and go to the voting phase. Thank you all for your considerable efforts.
Please feel free to download this photo to your computer and edit it anyway you feel is appropriate. You can do crops color shifts, composites, adjustments ow whatever you feel is appropriate. When you have completed your edit just post it in this thread. On Thursday Aug 16 we will stop accepting edits and go to the voting phase. Thank you all for your considerable efforts.
Aug 5, 2018 08:39:02 #
Aug 5, 2018 09:47:27 #
Had no idea where I was going with this. Started HDR trashed. Next applied a watercolor action. OK so so. Turned that into a black & white. No Punch. Decided to make a layer of B&W and let just some B&W overlay the color. Started to come around but still wanted something more. Flattened the image added a black mask and started to use an ink splatter brush to get my final results. Lets see how this flies.
Aug 5, 2018 10:51:56 #
Aug 5, 2018 15:03:09 #
Wow, this is a twofer fer me. The first, just trying to add to the excitement of the ride, the second making an Old West illustration having a bit of mystery and a bit of laugh.
Aug 5, 2018 15:12:59 #
kenievans
Loc: Dallas
artBob wrote:
Wow, this is a twofer fer me. The first, just trying to add to the excitement of the ride, the second making an Old West illustration having a bit of mystery and a bit of laugh.
Bob that second one is funny!!!!!!!
Aug 6, 2018 09:05:30 #
Aug 6, 2018 11:12:33 #
I didn't do much, and this computer only has an old version of LR on it. I raised the exposure a bit and the blacks a bit more. I found the white railing lower left distracting, so I cropped to take it out. That took out most of the spectators except Pink Shirt. I found him distracting, so I darkened him to make him sort of disappear. Don't think I did a very good job of that. There was something still sticking into the image upper right, so I also darkened it into disappearance-land. The bull rider isn't sharp, but I didn't know how to do anything that. He's moving, and as far as I know there's no fix for that. Oh, and I straightened it a bit. Perhaps not enough?
Aug 6, 2018 13:15:34 #
I obviously had very similar ideas to AzPicLady. There's some very lazy cloning in there, so pixel-peeping is strictly forbidden 
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Aug 7, 2018 08:43:27 #
Aug 7, 2018 13:21:24 #
kenievans wrote:
In honor of my beloved home state of Texas I bring... (show quote)
No artsy stuff here, just enhancing the main subject and drawing attention to the action.
Aug 7, 2018 16:01:37 #
This one was a tough one for me to decide what direction I was going to go in. The rider and the bull are the main attraction, I figured I would go in that direction and highlight them.
Aug 8, 2018 18:44:18 #
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