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Nov 15, 2014 08:23:45   #
jwt Loc: Texas Hill Country
 
Bob Yankle wrote:
Thanks jederick. I call this my "artful crop", which was actually a narrow band of subject matter cropped from a 4:3 photo, and now looks like a panorama. However, that narrow band held all the details that I was interested in.

After looking at the photo of your avatar, I decided to attach another photo I caught of a red shouldered hawk on the way home from the farm. It wasn't good enough to post in its own topic, but makes for a nice addition in response to a discussion of country life.
Thanks jederick. I call this my "artful crop... (show quote)


Bob pardon my intrusion on this part of your post, but this image at least on my IMac looks as if someone took a pencil and outlined the hawk. Did you do that in PP and if so how?

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Nov 15, 2014 09:02:46   #
Bob Yankle Loc: Burlington, NC
 
Treepusher wrote:
Love this one, Bob. So much to see, and the fence reminds me a lot of a grounded roller coaster! Love the way the eye follows it along. Great job!

And apparently one stick too many got shaken at the dairy farms around here. They're all gone.
Thanks Randy. I regret your loss of dairy farms. I guess they have to ship in milk to your part of the country so all your cats won't cry so much if they spill a little bit on the floor.

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Nov 15, 2014 09:05:56   #
Bob Yankle Loc: Burlington, NC
 
jwt wrote:
Now this is very artistic Bob, this pano sketch is well worth framing and hanging. Good on ya mate :thumbup:
Thanks Jim. I am rapidly becoming more intrigued with employing pen and ink sketches rather than painting effects, as an alternative way to process interesting landscapes with a whole lot of detail.

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Nov 15, 2014 09:10:30   #
Bob Yankle Loc: Burlington, NC
 
jwt wrote:
Bob pardon my intrusion on this part of your post, but this image at least on my IMac looks as if someone took a pencil and outlined the hawk. Did you do that in PP and if so how?
The original capture of the hawk was not particularly good. It was very dark, and back-lit against an overcast sky, so there was not much visible detail. I did two things ..... increased brightness and saturation to get the color and brightness back. I then created a duplicate layer which I ran through Smart Photo Editor to turn the photo into a b&w sketch. When that was finished, I blended the photos together using "Multiply" as the blending mode. This put the sketch background around the color and gave it definition.

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Nov 15, 2014 09:20:45   #
jwt Loc: Texas Hill Country
 
Bob Yankle wrote:
The original capture of the hawk was not particularly good. It was very dark, and back-lit against an overcast sky, so there was not much visible detail. I did two things ..... increased brightness and saturation to get the color and brightness back. I then created a duplicate layer which I ran through Smart Photo Editor to turn the photo into a b&w sketch. When that was finished, I blended the photos together using "Multiply" as the blending mode. This put the sketch background around the color and gave it definition.
The original capture of the hawk was not particula... (show quote)


Ah okay, makes sense now. Thanks!

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Nov 15, 2014 09:48:26   #
amyinsparta Loc: White county, TN
 
love the textures in it. What does it look like in color? Or did you shoot b/w?

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Nov 15, 2014 10:22:49   #
Bob Yankle Loc: Burlington, NC
 
amyinsparta wrote:
love the textures in it. What does it look like in color? Or did you shoot b/w?
Thank you amy. I looked good in color, but was lacking in "character". This reminds me of illustrations I had seen as a young child, so the treatment hearkens back to an earlier time.

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Nov 15, 2014 10:29:47   #
dennisallard Loc: Southern Maine
 
Impressive. My eyes can wander all over it and find interesting patterns everywhere.

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Nov 15, 2014 10:31:50   #
cam20000 Loc: NH
 
Bob Yankle wrote:
I'm discovering we have more dairy farms that I can shake a stick at ........

Please view the download for best effect.


The fence is a long and windy road ;)

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Nov 15, 2014 10:41:05   #
Bob Yankle Loc: Burlington, NC
 
dennisallard wrote:
Impressive. My eyes can wander all over it and find interesting patterns everywhere.
Thanks dennis. As I read your comment I thought "Good! I did my job right." This was a single shot I saw while driving down a country road, but the tree line was so far back it imparted a vista "feel" to the image. I cropped out a whole bunch of clouds and the road from the foreground, and what was left was remarkably rich in detail.

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Nov 15, 2014 10:43:51   #
Bob Yankle Loc: Burlington, NC
 
cam20000 wrote:
The fence is a long and windy road ;)
Yep, that white fence was definitely compelling cam. I changed positions several times before I could get the composition I was looking for ..... and even then, I wished I could have captured more of the twists in the road.

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Nov 15, 2014 10:47:48   #
dennisallard Loc: Southern Maine
 
And black and white was definitely the way to go.

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Nov 15, 2014 10:48:50   #
dennisallard Loc: Southern Maine
 
Bob Yankle wrote:
Yep, that white fence was definitely compelling cam. I changed positions several times before I could get the composition I was looking for ..... and even then, I wished I could have captured more of the twists in the road.


And black and white was definitely the way to go.

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Nov 15, 2014 14:38:54   #
jim hill Loc: Springfield, IL
 
Bob, One of your best shots to date - IMHO. I don't know what is happening with the clouds but it sure is mysterious.

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Nov 15, 2014 15:18:41   #
SX2002 Loc: Adelaide, South Australia
 
Nice interesting shot Bob... :thumbup:

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