Goldeneye
05-10-2003, 06:39 AM
This is a picture I took in Kathmandu on the Monkey Temple. Now looking at the picture I wish the monk was closer but you don't tell a monk what to do.
I was trying to make the picture more natural and in the end I realised I like different parts of both pictures. This was going to be a photo manipulation and the major change I made was the removal of the fence along the rights side of the path. I was hoping to take out the entire bushy area, and make the path seem like it was carved into the side of a montain overlooking a large lake. It would have worked well because the monk seems to be staring out into the distance. But that became difficult to do and keep the lense flare that was already covering much of the picture. Instead, I removed all the other people in the background and fooled around with the colours. To make the picture more ethereal I soft focused the background causing some of the light to scatter and make picture look more surreal. After finishing the picture, and actually as I began this sentence, I decided to redo the colours. I had made them too vibrant, and I wanted a more subdued tone like in the original. Due to a few errors in the beta version of PSP8, I was unable to retrieve the original base layer I used and had to copy my raw scan and correct the rotation angle so it lined up with my edited version. Again I didnt' like the colours so I put them at halfway between my original idea and the original photo. After fixing the colours I decided I wanted to show both the original and the edit so I put them both into the same picture.
The Picture (http://www.dfexchange.ca/display.php?id=289&actual=yes)
I was trying to make the picture more natural and in the end I realised I like different parts of both pictures. This was going to be a photo manipulation and the major change I made was the removal of the fence along the rights side of the path. I was hoping to take out the entire bushy area, and make the path seem like it was carved into the side of a montain overlooking a large lake. It would have worked well because the monk seems to be staring out into the distance. But that became difficult to do and keep the lense flare that was already covering much of the picture. Instead, I removed all the other people in the background and fooled around with the colours. To make the picture more ethereal I soft focused the background causing some of the light to scatter and make picture look more surreal. After finishing the picture, and actually as I began this sentence, I decided to redo the colours. I had made them too vibrant, and I wanted a more subdued tone like in the original. Due to a few errors in the beta version of PSP8, I was unable to retrieve the original base layer I used and had to copy my raw scan and correct the rotation angle so it lined up with my edited version. Again I didnt' like the colours so I put them at halfway between my original idea and the original photo. After fixing the colours I decided I wanted to show both the original and the edit so I put them both into the same picture.
The Picture (http://www.dfexchange.ca/display.php?id=289&actual=yes)