when you have nothing to work on play
Friday, October 5, 2007
Just giving people some ideas all but 1 of these photos where taken with a Pentax K1000 the civil war photo was taken with a Fuji S2 pro I had rented it to see if I liked it. Was using photoshop 5.5-7 all of these photos are older by 5 years or so.
Ok if you have time the best thing I have found to do is just play this leads to understanding and improvements of photography. Also if you play your cards right you may make some $$$$ by getting them published and or sell prints. All of these photos have been published from time to time. There is not a lot of $$$ in it but say you have some stuff sitting around on your hard drive rework them and sell them. Also it is GOOD advertising hay some one is paying YOU not YOU paying them for advertising. I have found a lot of art mages will publish your name and websight ect….
But any way having fun is important because if your not well photography becomes just a nether job. I have seen photographers that have stopped having fun and it is a sad thing. Some times this stuff that takes an hower but go back and look at what you have taken and just go nuts so what if it is not perfect let that go. I often tell people that I photo that it is hard to tell what the photos I take will look like because I just have at them at 3am. And also it depends how much I have been able to afford to eat. Lol the more starving I am the more creative I get . usly I am ODing on coffee and cigarettes. ( hay that sounds like a good photo book title maybe the follow up to the one I wont to do called “Conversations over Coffee and Generic Cigarettes” as so as I can figer out how to get it published lol I came up with it when I was in basic training at FT Binning when I was doing KP lol that is a nether story no to its self ie… Hallmark striate to the Army)
The first photo was taken at an old out of business matary school. I had the model walk in to the hallway and I wonted to give the felling that the viewer was just out sied and happened a crost a ghost. How I did it was I took her and put her on a sepret layer and then took her out of the first layer using the rubber stamp tool then I erased out what I did not need from the 2nd layer moved her tords the door more and adjusted the opancy of 2 layer this is how I did all the gost photos. When doing this try to keep the back ground simple and have at lest some thing that can be seen threw the person in this photo you can see the window. The scanner I was using at the time was BAD so it has more art a facts than I like.
The 2nd photo is taken on a fire escape at my old apartment. I blacked out the back ground by incising the contrast till white. The wings are butterfly wings witch I took out the butterfly. The halo I made a filled in circle then cut the middle and used the perspective too to get it to look right. The writing I have no idea what it says it just looked cool. Moved things around till I liked it and inverted it.
The 3rd photo I was bord with what I was doing so I wonted to try some thing more emosmal. I grabbed some one from the coffee shop and I used a lamp and a blanket I told him to look disturbed. Then I took a photo of people killed in a contrition camp and over layer on to him. No no state ment being made just trying working on a different theme.
4th photo this was shot with window light and a sheet the texture is made buy using the cloud filter then in B&W then using find out line filter then adjust till I liked. The wall on her back is from a bar that was across the street my friend was over and I was working on this photo and it need some thing and I looked out the window and seen the wall and I asked him if I could borrow his D30 for a minuet then I put the wall on her on a layer on motplay I think.
5th photo shot with window light the texture is made buy using the cloud filter then in B&W then using find out line filter then adjust till I liked. Lightened the eyes and did a layer in red I used the corves to make the photo darker.
6th is dune the same way as above but I put a sepia coloring to it. It was a bit harder because I had to rebuild a lot of the window seal. And there was a lot of stuff on the bottom so I had to try to make it mach. This was shot in the old train station.
7th I was shooting a civil war reenactment and I was trying out a Fuji S2 pro to see if I liked it. Nice camera just did not fit me well. But this photo the guy was on the right with a lot of other people and I looked at it and thought that it would good ghost photo. I had to take out a lot of cars and such in the back ground.
8th ok she is sitting on a readier in front of a window . she had a hard time staying on it. What I did was make a coppy layer then jumped the corves up on the 2nd layer and the 1st then gosen blured the 2nd one and used overlay . then after flatting I took out any thing left of the window or readater.
9th shot using window light then did the cloud thing agene. Then used moshen blur on it. Erased out where the eye is then did eye work. I made a filled in circle then cut the middle and made copy layers and resized. I set the layers that had the circles on I set diffrtly ie…. Over lay ect… I also used the emboss and glowing edges fution. And flatten.
10th this one is less notable I was up there a couple of months after the WW2 morel in DC opened. If you look at the water it is frozen but the people are blurred like I was using a slow shutter speed. I put each person on a serpent layer and used motion blure on each of them. I thought it looked neat and it sort of like they all are passing throw but the memre remains.
posted by The Photograph @ 5:30 PM,
2 Comments:
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At October 5, 2007 6:31 PM,
Tim Nelson said...
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I love the ghost like image #1
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At October 5, 2007 7:29 PM,
The Photograph said...
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thank you i hope you can read how i did it lol it is really not hard :) try it out you could probly do better then me :)
