So Far Down  by graemestevens
Jae
Gosh....can I help?
December 2nd, 2014  
Awesome!
December 2nd, 2014  
Fantastic!
December 2nd, 2014  
The Incredible Shrinking Man! Very cool shot! Again, nice boots! ;)
December 2nd, 2014  
Sorry you're down but this is awesome... (And again... Have you tried inverting? Just saying;p)
December 2nd, 2014  
@northy Thanks very much - not particularly down, just seemed like an apt title for the given pose. So anyway...how the heck do I invert?
@juliedduncan Thank you very much - it's a mini me!
@ukandie1 Thank you kindly :)
@ukandie1 Thanks very much indeed
@lifepause I'm fine - no more miserable than usual, it just seemed like an apt title for the shot...but thank you so much :)
December 2nd, 2014  
It's all downhill from here.
December 2nd, 2014  
Love the composition! FAV!
December 2nd, 2014  
@terryliv At a great rate of knots. On the other hand, the only way from there is up again.
December 2nd, 2014  
@kwind Thank you so much :)
December 2nd, 2014  
@graemestevens Eventually
December 2nd, 2014  
@graemestevens do u have photoshop? Option is under image adjustments (I think... Going by memory)...
December 2nd, 2014  
@northy @graemestevens In Lightroom, in the develop module, go to tone curve, and slide the right point all the way down, and the left point all the way up. Done.
December 2nd, 2014  
BTW this is Favulous.
December 2nd, 2014  
@bill_fe i can't make this work in lightroom... no clue what i'm doing wrong...
December 2nd, 2014  
Excellent!
December 2nd, 2014  
Fantastic!
December 2nd, 2014  
Great shot!
December 2nd, 2014  
@eyeamlisa Thanks very much. Now for the last time, send the brownies ;)
@spanner Thank you very much :)
@rangerxenos Thanks very much :)
@bill_fe @northy Gotcha - thanks - I'll give a try on the next one :)
@bill_fe BTW, thank you muchly
@northy No PS, just Lightroom, I shall take Master Bills advice for LR and see what happens ;)
December 2nd, 2014  
This is great.
December 2nd, 2014  
@epcello Thanks very much, always appreciated
December 2nd, 2014  
I love your juices - the creative ones I mean :) Very nice! Wish I could think of stuff like this, but I'm pretty much of a birdbrain - birds are more my thing these days :)
December 2nd, 2014  
I'm a sucker for negative space, so a big FAV from me.
December 2nd, 2014  
@not_left_handed I like dead birds ;) And thank you very much
@888rachel Thank you kindly - more to come, so you'll love that...
December 2nd, 2014  
Excellent capture. Love how it looks over black background.
December 2nd, 2014  
@anazad511 Thank you so much :)
December 2nd, 2014  
Great photo. Love this! You do all of this in LR? I am just learning. This is very cool and inspirational.
December 2nd, 2014  
Very worthy of all the favs! Has more oomph than most photos with one person in it!
December 2nd, 2014  
@northy Hmmm, It should be fairly simple, I've only done it once before tonight, with a color image and it was the same process, just slide the points straight up and down, one at a time.
December 2nd, 2014  
@bill_fe which version of lightroom are you using? in mine there's a graph thing and then 4 separate sliders... played with all of them and nothing gets me close to an inversion...
December 2nd, 2014  
@northy @bill_fe Likewise on my version - bust slidey sliding and nothings happening
@maggiemae Thank you so much - far too kind :)
@kt8ird Thanks very much - I took the photo of me way down the other end of the garden and then everything else is LR - I'm only a newbie as well
December 2nd, 2014  
found a tutorial, but can't move the points it says you're supposed to move... http://www.phototips.biz/2013/08/how-to-invert-colors-in-lightroom.html

@bill_fe
December 2nd, 2014  
@bill_fe @graemestevens ok... clicked on the point curve box and the sliders disappeared and then was able to move those points around... and got it to work :)
December 2nd, 2014  
Once again , love the minimalism :)
December 2nd, 2014  
@northy @bill_fe Woohoo! Play time again! Thank you both :)
@hermann Once again, thank you so much :)
December 2nd, 2014  
@northy I didn't have to click on the box, but when I did it brought in sliders. Glad you figured it out. @graemestevens
December 2nd, 2014  
@graemestevens Excellent, thanks for sharing. I tried to invert one of my photos as well and it worked. My sweet mouse Melodi looks quite evil with the colors inverted.
December 2nd, 2014  
fav. like this a lot
December 2nd, 2014  
Loving this. Really very good.
December 2nd, 2014  
I am very much liking this image - I have read that you are not down as suggested by the title and posture so that makes me happy
December 2nd, 2014  
Down or looking for skeletons?
December 2nd, 2014  
Cheer up, it's nearly Christmas! However I'm with you. That's how I feel about Christmas. The sooner it's over the better, then on to spring! Fav
December 2nd, 2014  
@kt8ird You're more than welcome :)
@jaynspain Thank you so much, always appreciated
@voiceprintz Thank you very much :)
@trinda Could be a bit of both I think...not sure whose skeleton I'll find...
@shepherdmanswife I think that's why I'm down...my least favourite of the holidays...and thank you so much :)
@annied @annied Thank you very much (again)...it just seemed an apt title for said shot. In more mysterious news, the game is afoot!
December 2nd, 2014  
The space in your photos seems to be getting more and more negative over the past few days. Very creative and clever. Fav
December 2nd, 2014  
@tomtom Thank you very much - just playing around with it to see what happens :)
December 2nd, 2014  
@graemestevens oh I want to be afoot too it sounds like fun hahaha
December 2nd, 2014  
@annied there's nothing like being afoot, particularly when wearing a great big boot
December 2nd, 2014  
cool! so glad to hear you aren't literally down!
December 2nd, 2014  
Brilliant love it
December 2nd, 2014  
Great composition it works well
December 2nd, 2014  
excellent composition and choice of negative space
December 2nd, 2014  
Have you just discovered I made you pregnant?
December 2nd, 2014  
Very good. Very striking. I love it.
December 2nd, 2014  
@graemestevens oh I do so love a great big boot too
December 2nd, 2014  
artistic :)
December 2nd, 2014  
awesome minimalistic image!
December 2nd, 2014  
Meg
Very cool!
December 2nd, 2014  
Striking and powerful
December 2nd, 2014  
This is very cool, awesome minimalism.
December 2nd, 2014  
@tracie8266 Thanks very much...and not at all :)
@pinkpaintpot Thank you kindly :)
@wearing0 Thank you very much :)
@lorrainelouise Thank you very much, appreciated
@newbank Thank you nice lady...and yes, I feel violated
@annied Especially if they're going somewhere at a great rate of knots...
@blueberry1222 Thanks very much :)
@nicoleterheide Thank you very much :)
@megstorey Thank you very much :)
@maishanny Thanks very much, appreciated
@andy3168 Thanks very much, much appreciated
December 2nd, 2014  
Love the composition, enjoy the space around you.
December 2nd, 2014  
@yaorenliu Thanks very much - I like some space around me
December 2nd, 2014  
this is totally cool - what they all said. big FAV - no idea how you did it though!
December 2nd, 2014  
Isn't there a minimalism technique challenge out there right now? This is very cool. I think a miniature Graeme doll needs to go into production right now. ;)
December 2nd, 2014  
If there was one as @darylo suggests I'd buy one and use it to ....let me think....
December 2nd, 2014  
@brigette Thanks very much - Lightroom is my friend :)
@darylo There was a challenge, but as usual I was too slow...now theres a gift no one would buy ;)
@ceilidh Oh...now I feel slightly violated ;)
December 2nd, 2014  
Tag it for technique34, minimalism. Great shot!
December 2nd, 2014  
@overalvandaan Thank you so much :)
December 2nd, 2014  
@graemestevens See, two people want a Graeme doll! Get a prototype rolling and contact the manufacturers! It could come with a whole series of tools, knives, flame throwers, oh jesus, it'd be awesome. You're welcome.
December 2nd, 2014  
@darylo I think i'd have more fun designing the appropriate range of accessories than would normally be considered healthy!
December 2nd, 2014  
Nice work. I have my days like this.
December 2nd, 2014  
@amandal Thanks very much - I'm up though, just an apt title for the pose I struck...
December 2nd, 2014  
@graemestevens hmmmmm knots
December 2nd, 2014  
Awesome!
December 2nd, 2014  
@bizziebeeme Thanks very much :)
@annied hmmmm?
December 3rd, 2014  
December 3rd, 2014  
@annied Ahhhhhhh
December 3rd, 2014  
December 3rd, 2014  
What a great shot! I read you did this in lightroom, I am only just learning as well. What function is this to create the negative space? I love it!
December 3rd, 2014  
Very cool!
December 3rd, 2014  
@jess1204 Thank you very much - I started by increasing the exposure and contrast slightly, then the whites, then I painstakingly spent about an hour using the brush tool on the highest exposure to go over everything that I didn't want in the shot...so what you can't see is my shed, the fence, the neighbours house and my vegetable garden...
@harbie Thanks very much :)
December 3rd, 2014  
@graemestevens Got it! Thanks for the info! I haven't used the brush tool yet, I have to look at this! Great shot.
December 3rd, 2014  
@jess1204 Thank you again...I have a great big book, about 500 pages about LR and how to use it...haven't opened it yet...
December 3rd, 2014  
Fantastic shot. Love all that space; intrigued by Northy's suggestion to invert this one, and the feather. Would look v cool.
December 3rd, 2014  
@rachelwithey Thank you very much - I've been playing in LR but just can't get the inversion!
December 3rd, 2014  
@graemestevens do you use GIMP - it's one of the few things that's pretty straightforward on there. I use Lightroom but I've no idea how to invert on there
December 3rd, 2014  
@rachelwithey I've only got LR...I'll keep trying. I have a 500 page book on how to use it...maybe I should actually open it...
December 3rd, 2014  
This is a fabulous demonstration that less is sometimes more... excellent work, Graeme. A Fav too I think.
December 3rd, 2014  
@vignouse Thank you kindly sir, most generous
December 4th, 2014  
@graemestevens I forgot to say, you can't invert in LR but if you download Faststone Photo Viewer - it's free and a very useful viewer and editor - inversion is 1 click away.
December 4th, 2014  
@vignouse Superb, thank you for that :)
December 4th, 2014  
As you were... you have just fallen victim to Other Operator Error Syndrome! Normally I read through all the comments before commenting myself, but there were so many and I was trying to catch up a bit, so I just scrolled down to the bottom and started typing away with my brain(?) in neutral.

You can, of course, invert in lightroom by reversing all the tone values using the tone curve sliders as Bill Fenske and Northy pointed out. By default the tone curve should be in Linear Mode - if not select it using the options arrow - and the four tone sliders should be visible... this you dont want, so click in the little graph box on the right when the tone sliders will disappear and the tone curve legend will change to 'Custom'. Now you can click and slide the bottom left corner to the top and the top right corner to the bottom which will invert all the tone values in your image whether colour or B&W. Or you can download Faststone and do it with one click... ;-))
December 4th, 2014  
You have such a creative mind, love it!
December 4th, 2014  
@vignouse Thanks you my good man, I'll play again later today :)
@roseolivia Thank you very much, far too kind!
December 4th, 2014  
Fabulous Image!! (I'm looking at these in reverse order btw)... By now I'm sure you've launched yourself into an amazing new stratosphere... Or unearthed a rotting treasure... or some other delightful thing :)
December 5th, 2014  
@lisatown Thanks you very much - I think this is my favourite as well :)
December 5th, 2014  
Theatrical! Magical! So creative - well done!!! FAv for me!
December 5th, 2014  
@lynnilou Thank you kindly - I am nothing more than a drama queen ;)
December 5th, 2014  
Are those boots too tight for your feet?
December 5th, 2014  
@yrhenwr I didn't do them up - I was in too much of a hurry!
December 5th, 2014  
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