they walk among us by northy

they walk among us

for the etsooi challenge... this week's theme is "spooky" ;p

so... what did i do with this? first off, it's two separate images (chess shot and skull) which i processed from RAW in LR5... exported both images to JPEG and melded them in PSE - played a bit with liquify to get the skull to fit with the knight a bit better... took into nik silver efex to convert to black and white... then to colour efex to add some fog and blur and do some stuff with light... THEN to topaz restyle for some toning and a bit more light play (messed with the layer style and the sliders to bring out some glow)... then back to LR5 for some vignetting to tone down the figure in the back (thinking maybe i should have toned down a bit more now... hmmmm...)

http://365project.org/discuss/themes-competitions/19398/etsooi-20-spooky
Oooo good one! LOVE this!!
October 6th, 2013  
spooky wooky! well done!
October 6th, 2013  
Checkmate!
October 6th, 2013  
My kind of shot!! What fun to see, and the processing was fascinating to read. It's still amazing to me how much flexibility these processing software programs provide. Very creative and a great image.
October 6th, 2013  
F-ing amazing. Love this. Fav
October 6th, 2013  
omgosh so creative!!!
October 6th, 2013  
Its like a very silent movie where the character reappears as a skull having thought of a really good move!
October 6th, 2013  
Ur so cool & good in this kind of processing-I envy & just can't do such complicated stuff...great job as always :)
October 6th, 2013  
Nicely captured and edited!
October 6th, 2013  
Okay, I have new type of push that can change directions during the week depending on your images, and the edits you (and I) make - here we go with your multi-day/images push:

1) Capture an image of anything you might normally do and that you want to publish in your album. This is step #1 and needs to be in your album. Post and notify me that phase 1 is complete. You (and I) can't wait to the last minute with this type of a push.

2) Upon notification, I'll make some edits to the same image and post in one of my albums - this is now your step #1 image with my edits. I'll let you know that it is available, and I'll do this within a day of you posting the step #1 image.

3) Your final step #2 is to capture an image that when combined with the edited picture of step #1 in a diptych that you prepare tells a story and combines the two pictures.

Good luck and let's see if this type of a push is possible. Maybe even become a future challenge for dual edit images??
October 6th, 2013  
creepy . . . . your hard work paid off. i think the figure in the back is toned down perfectly. your result is fantastic!
October 6th, 2013  
Love it! Wonderfully creepy!
October 6th, 2013  
Ohhhhhh yes!!!
October 6th, 2013  
Oh yikes!
October 6th, 2013  
Fantastic idea and editing, Northy.
October 6th, 2013  
Lot of work - works well. Well done.
October 6th, 2013  
Cool
October 6th, 2013  
nice image and really spooky!
October 6th, 2013  
@mikegifford this sounds cool... so if i understand correctly, this is a little bit like when someone starts a story with a sentence or two and then the other person takes it over... so i take a shot and post it with, i assume, comparatively minimal edits... you will then edit that shot and hand it back to me to provide a follow up shot so that my original shot with your edits, plus my follow up shot, can be incorporated into a diptych that works... we can definitely have fun with this one!!!!!
October 6th, 2013  
@northy You're right....the ending shot (or second shot of the diptych) may or may not incorporate the first shot, but the two combined need to tell a story for the diptych to hold together.
October 6th, 2013  
Awesome! And thanks for posting the description of all the work going into it!
October 6th, 2013  
Oh no...didn't need more toning down...the figure in the back looks very menacing! Cool shot.
October 6th, 2013  
:D It´s spooky indeed but also cool!! ;)
October 6th, 2013  
Cool, very spooky indeed!
October 6th, 2013  
I really love your chess shots - a huge FAV for this one - and thank you for telling us how your processed it - find that really interesting and helpful.
October 6th, 2013  
AC
Great capture... I'll never be able to look at knights the same, again.
October 6th, 2013  
cool shot
October 7th, 2013  
Trippy. Love it.
October 7th, 2013  
Ian
Creepy but cool ! You create such great images from that chess board !
October 7th, 2013  
Cool shot! :)
October 7th, 2013  
I love this! Super cool!
October 7th, 2013  
I'm in awe of your mad skillz. :D That's one creepycool image!
October 8th, 2013  
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