This might seem a lazy photographer's take to do a reverse of yesterday's image, but I took over 50 photos today, throughout the day, different lighting, different settings, and I just couldn't get it right. Good thing it was just my backyard so I didn't have to go far. I even dragged the tripod out into the mushy, muddy ground from yesterday's rain. Did minimal editing but still looks fake to me. But the colors in real life were very nice . . . if only I could have captured it better.
Screened porch peeking through. Time to cover all the porch furniture for the winter.
@anazad511 -- Good thing you don't want to hear me claim an airplane as home! Sometimes I wonder, but my home is in a Chicago suburb, Evanston. We've lived here almost 20 years, and these shrubs were small plants and the river birch looked like sticks when we planted them.
@jyokota In PS, create 3 copies of the original image by hitting Ctrl J 3 times if a windows PC.
In the first copy follow the path
Layer/Layer Style/Blending Options and select Screen in blend mode
leave the second copy layer as is.
In the top (3rd) copy follow same path as in layer 1 but select Multiply
It may come out very dark, in which case create a new levels layer and lighten a touch. You will see the colours should be more vibrant.
If you then want to add a slight Gaussian blur to soften the shot to a true Orton style, add a duplicate layer, and select Filter/Blur/Gaussian Blur and then play around with the slider.
@seanoneill -- Many THANKS for your tips . . . I think some of those tips can be translated into Aperture, which is what I use. I thought "all was lost" in terms of creating a stacked image/HDR if I hadn't bothered to take three photos at once, but I see now that I can manipulate a photo three ways and artificially create what I had missed. I copied this into my "notes" file on Evernote. I enjoyed seeing your photo link and commented there, too,
@jyokota Great, Yes, you are right, you can create a stack by manipulating your original shot and creating different exposures that you then stack. Orton is very similar to HDR in reality, a softer version.
Junko you could try the Orton effect in Picmonkey.
We are partnered this week in the get push challenge and I had just been reading your thread about the Japanese trip just as I got notification about our partnership. I immediately had this idea and can't get it out of my head - so how does this sound - could you do a Japanese inspired image? Either from something you've experienced on your trips, from a song, a book, apiece of art, food, anything. Viewers of this image should immediately be able to identify that it is Japanese / Japanese influenced. If your inspiration is something you are able to link to I would love to see/hear it.
November 12th, 2013
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@seanoneill -- what's an Orton effect?
If you have photoshop it is easy.
In the first copy follow the path
Layer/Layer Style/Blending Options and select Screen in blend mode
leave the second copy layer as is.
In the top (3rd) copy follow same path as in layer 1 but select Multiply
It may come out very dark, in which case create a new levels layer and lighten a touch. You will see the colours should be more vibrant.
If you then want to add a slight Gaussian blur to soften the shot to a true Orton style, add a duplicate layer, and select Filter/Blur/Gaussian Blur and then play around with the slider.
This works very well as a technique for trees and Autumn wood shots. Here is one of my faves, albeit a spring photo. http://365project.org/seanoneill/the-difficult-2/2012-05-17
We are partnered this week in the get push challenge and I had just been reading your thread about the Japanese trip just as I got notification about our partnership. I immediately had this idea and can't get it out of my head - so how does this sound - could you do a Japanese inspired image? Either from something you've experienced on your trips, from a song, a book, apiece of art, food, anything. Viewers of this image should immediately be able to identify that it is Japanese / Japanese influenced. If your inspiration is something you are able to link to I would love to see/hear it.