Dusty

altyfc · Feb 14, 2004

Moving house next month, and went to see some of the finishing touches this afternoon. Here's one of the shots:

Aaron

vonnagy · Feb 14, 2004

hi alty,

i love these kind of shots, sort of the slice of life types. the tones seem quite good here and the photo stands well as is

But i am curious what would have if you started to play with the contrast a bit. Another thing you could try is to burn the 'rubbish' and 'dodge' the the broom.

do you have any other shots?

altyfc · Feb 15, 2004

Hi there, thanks... what did you mean by burn the rubbish and dodge the brush? I'm sorry I don't understand the terms.

I did take some other shots... I plan to put together a before and after album for us afterwards. Shots like the one above followed by a vase with flowers on the windowsill of the finished house, mixed with some before and afters of whole rooms... should be nice to look back on.

Aaron

altyfc · Feb 15, 2004

Here's the same shot with more contrast.

I agree that this looks better.

Aaron

vonnagy · Feb 16, 2004

Hi there, thanks... what did you mean by burn the rubbish and dodge the brush? I'm sorry I don't understand the terms.

oops sorry there, glad you called me on not being clear!

dodging - means lightening up sections of an image, in pshop you can use the 'black lollipop' tool to do this

burning - is the opposite, darken sections of an image, in pshop it looks like the hand doing the 'Ok' sign.

They have darkroom equivalents as well but I am unfortunately not well versed in those.

By the way, like contrasty image here that looks fab!