This is this week’s black and white Wordless Wednesday:
It’s a large iron and glass affair that I saw in front of a restaurant in Murano – the canal is seen in the reflection … inside a dinner table waits for a client.
One of my readers asked me to do a walk through with the editing.
I used Picasa 3 but most of the apps in Picasa 3 can be found on just about any editing program.
Here is the original:
After fixing the colour adding some highlights/fill lights to bring out the lantern – I then decided to crop and straighten it:
I then added a little shadowing and ‘warmified’ it – in other words added flesh tones, which brought the lantern out nicely … but I wasn’t pleased with the general colouring so I saturated and contrasted a bit:
At this point – the colours were emphasized enough to try to go black and white – so I used the filtered black and white app filtering out some of the red – added a drop shadow frame and signed the finished work!
Here’s the same photo after using a mock HDR app and adding a pinkish tint to the b&w photo:
And with this last edit, I’m linking the post to One Word Photo Challenge for this week’s colour – copper
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Oh, awesome! Thanks for the walk-through! And you know, it would fit nicely with the one word photo challenge this week — copper. Interesting how you’ve achieved a different mood with each edit. This is a great post 😀
Thanks! And so I link it to the One Word Photo Challenge!
It’s a great edit — everyone will like it. (Sorry about the extra work. Again.) 😛
No problem … glad you liked it! 🙂
Glad you linked this! It does fit perfectly. Thanks for the walk through on the edit. It’s such a nice looking lantern- the angles and lines.
I loved it, but the lighting was way bad … a very cloudy afternoon. Happy you liked the post!
Beautiful final image. I love all the edits you did – thanks for giving the information to it.
You’re very welcome. I like taking a photos of lanterns, lamps and the odd this or that. To use them for an illustration though I usually have to do some editing to pull out that particular piece that I wanted in the first place. What really defeats me are birds … darn things fly too fast for my shutter times! Glad you enjoyed the post!
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