Shanne's challenge was set thus " For your Get Pushed challenge this week, I'm going to riff on something northy set me years ago: use different lighting (low key / high key) and/or processing to take a picture of a household item, such as a piece of cutlery or a toothbrush'.
So Shanne here's a bigger option the vacuum cleaner! It wasn't easy to lightpaint this to not get the background and I processed it to make it hazy a la @northy (so why did I make sure it was in focus before I switched off the light to get the room dark?!).
It's also my Dogwood challenge offering for week3
3 good things
Nearly forgot to do this and remembered ( does that count?)
Delicious low calorie tea made from leftovers
Found unfinished Advent calendar - enjoyed high calorie dark chocolates- oops!!
@shannejw it was diffferent! @grammyn very kind Katy, don't think I'll do it again with this subject! @onewing scary thngs!! I can't use this at the moment too heavy for my painful back @Dawn on my phone I can see the back ground and the image is rubbish though @jacqbb it was fun setting it up and explaining to Him what I was doing @365anne I can think of more fun ways to spend time, but I was glad the plan sort of panned out @ludwigsdiana really?
@northy how do you get such a black background and hazy but sharp focus? (If it's all PS I won't manage it!!)
@30pics4jackiesdiamond hmmm... so - if anything, it's Lightroom not photoshop... if you give me an example from my album i can probably tell you what i did...
in general i aim for sharp focus where the light is brightest (and if its a set up shot i will decide where i want the light to be brightest)... i often shoot with a shallow dof, so in a set up shot, the bit that's in the light will be quite sharp while other parts may fade into the background more...
when i process in lightroom i usually decrease clarity... i think this gives the hazy feel in the middle of the spectrum... i also only lightly sharpen...
then after i convert to black and white (i mostly use silver fx for that), back in LR, i push the whites until i get just a smidgeon pure white (LR has a function where it starts to mask "red" where you have pure white) and the background pure black (LR masks "blue")... does that make any sense? i can try to explain better if it would help...
btw... this is nicely done! and your vac makes for a very nice low key subject :) if you want to pull the whites up a bit you should be able to do that no matter what software you are using...
@northy thank you x I'll have another play!! The bright yellow is quite a horrid grey isn't it. Practicing will help next month for FoR I expect too. Thanks again
Do you use Lightroom? If so, you can muck about with the yellow before converting to black and white ... and whatever you’re using to convert to black and white might give you some options in terms of colour filters that might help...
@northy hello I use a free laptop app and ribbetr and what came with a Windows on laptop. Too tight to pay what they want per month to not use often. I'll do some exploring, thanks so much 😁
January 16th, 2019
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@grammyn very kind Katy, don't think I'll do it again with this subject!
@onewing scary thngs!! I can't use this at the moment too heavy for my painful back
@Dawn on my phone I can see the back ground and the image is rubbish though
@jacqbb it was fun setting it up and explaining to Him what I was doing
@365anne I can think of more fun ways to spend time, but I was glad the plan sort of panned out
@ludwigsdiana really?
@northy how do you get such a black background and hazy but sharp focus? (If it's all PS I won't manage it!!)
in general i aim for sharp focus where the light is brightest (and if its a set up shot i will decide where i want the light to be brightest)... i often shoot with a shallow dof, so in a set up shot, the bit that's in the light will be quite sharp while other parts may fade into the background more...
when i process in lightroom i usually decrease clarity... i think this gives the hazy feel in the middle of the spectrum... i also only lightly sharpen...
then after i convert to black and white (i mostly use silver fx for that), back in LR, i push the whites until i get just a smidgeon pure white (LR has a function where it starts to mask "red" where you have pure white) and the background pure black (LR masks "blue")... does that make any sense? i can try to explain better if it would help...