A combo of my O challenge and the current WWYD challenge. I am not a big fan of Halloween but it seems that every time it rolls around I do at least one ghost composite! This O was actually the fire sprinkler in the ceiling of the dr's office! How did it end up in the sky with two ghosties enjoying a day in the Haunted Park? Who knows!
my gues would be a little annfoolery was involved for this terrific result! FAV It is a perfect blend of reality and fantasy for a very convincing seasonal image!
@jeanniec57 I'm not sure what you mean by settings, but I'll just share how the whole thing came together and hope that I answer that in the mix. The initial shot was taken with my Olympus point and shoot on an automatic setting for "landscapes". I find this to be a good setting for most of the pictures I take with it- even people shots- so that's what it's always set to. I guess it would be equivalent to the automatic settings on a more substantial DSLR. The processing details are as follows (grab a cup of coffee and a bagel when you read this!)
The base shot is a very boring and slightly blurry picture of a sprinkler unit in the ceiling of the doctor's examining room- taken of course before the doctor came in! I adjusted the contrast on that one, attempted to sharpen it a little and applied a texture that gave it a brownish-sepia tone tint. It looked a little better but it was still boring (imo!) so I started thinking about what else I could do to it to make the O stand out a little more. And then I thought the picture might be more interesting if I added an overlay of the moon on the O. All that accomplished was a bit more texture on the O and it made the sprinkler unit look like an over-exposed shot of the sun. So I added an overlay with some solar bokeh in for good measure. It was starting to look like a landscape and that's when the idea of adding in the bench from WWYD 207 and the trees came into my mind. So, I did that. The trees are an over-lay effect. We're up to 5 layers now, if you're counting! The "color" was now imbalanced with some layers in black and white and others the original brown/sepia so I applied an "old photo" effect as well to unify the colors (layer no. 6). That's the "snowy" ground you see at the bottom and the darker rim around the other edges. Up to this point I have been using Smart Photo Editor. But the bench was now looking very lonely. And since the trees had a "dark and scary forest" look to them, I thought it would couple well with some ethereal occupants. Ribbet has come really fun "ghosties" as stickers, so I saved what I did up to this point and transferred the whole thing over to Ribbet and added the little boy and girl. But it needed a frame to hold it all together and I knew Smart Photo Editor had a really great vintage frame that would work well with this so I saved the Ribbet version and transferred it back to SME where I added one more layer of a darker sepia to match better with the frame and the frame (which I did some cloning on to make the scroll work on the bottom match the top- I felt doing that was a little more balanced than the scroll work that was there) and then it was done! Or I told myself it was because now I'd taken way too much time and had way too much fun playing when I should have been getting ready for work!
Many ghostly thanks to one and all for your views, comments, and favs- all greatly appreciated!!
This awesome. I wish I could star it more than once !
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Thank you Katy, Jeannie, Wendy, Marilyn, Harry, Diana, Debbie, Brian, Milanie, Nina, Pam, Gloria, Chantal, Hanna, Babs, Kathy, Kathy, Issi, and Lou Ann!
@wendyfrost done!
@jeanniec57 I'm not sure what you mean by settings, but I'll just share how the whole thing came together and hope that I answer that in the mix. The initial shot was taken with my Olympus point and shoot on an automatic setting for "landscapes". I find this to be a good setting for most of the pictures I take with it- even people shots- so that's what it's always set to. I guess it would be equivalent to the automatic settings on a more substantial DSLR. The processing details are as follows (grab a cup of coffee and a bagel when you read this!)
The base shot is a very boring and slightly blurry picture of a sprinkler unit in the ceiling of the doctor's examining room- taken of course before the doctor came in! I adjusted the contrast on that one, attempted to sharpen it a little and applied a texture that gave it a brownish-sepia tone tint. It looked a little better but it was still boring (imo!) so I started thinking about what else I could do to it to make the O stand out a little more. And then I thought the picture might be more interesting if I added an overlay of the moon on the O. All that accomplished was a bit more texture on the O and it made the sprinkler unit look like an over-exposed shot of the sun. So I added an overlay with some solar bokeh in for good measure. It was starting to look like a landscape and that's when the idea of adding in the bench from WWYD 207 and the trees came into my mind. So, I did that. The trees are an over-lay effect. We're up to 5 layers now, if you're counting! The "color" was now imbalanced with some layers in black and white and others the original brown/sepia so I applied an "old photo" effect as well to unify the colors (layer no. 6). That's the "snowy" ground you see at the bottom and the darker rim around the other edges. Up to this point I have been using Smart Photo Editor. But the bench was now looking very lonely. And since the trees had a "dark and scary forest" look to them, I thought it would couple well with some ethereal occupants. Ribbet has come really fun "ghosties" as stickers, so I saved what I did up to this point and transferred the whole thing over to Ribbet and added the little boy and girl. But it needed a frame to hold it all together and I knew Smart Photo Editor had a really great vintage frame that would work well with this so I saved the Ribbet version and transferred it back to SME where I added one more layer of a darker sepia to match better with the frame and the frame (which I did some cloning on to make the scroll work on the bottom match the top- I felt doing that was a little more balanced than the scroll work that was there) and then it was done! Or I told myself it was because now I'd taken way too much time and had way too much fun playing when I should have been getting ready for work!
Many ghostly thanks to one and all for your views, comments, and favs- all greatly appreciated!!
@fluidsculpture Thanks Paul! I'm glad you like it. I have fun making those ordinary things look not so ordinary!
@cdcook48 Thanks Chris! I thought I might run out of time on this one and I really wanted to do it. So I was glad when this fell into place!
Thank you Peter! And thank you so much for the fav!
Thank you Judith!
So creative!