The Winter Gardens

Rob_W · Feb 4, 2009

Took this in Blackpool, i deliberately shot it at this angle because i wanted a film noir kind of shot. It was originally
shot in colour but i tinkered around in Photoshop and i ended up with this. Which was pretty much as i saw it in my head when i took the pic, if any of that makes any sense.

Mersad · Feb 4, 2009

Awesome. It has a 20ties flair to it! Very nice. :thumbup:

Roger · Feb 4, 2009

You kicked a goal with this one, nice and 'noir'....the angle works for me too.

Flower Child · Feb 4, 2009

i really like this. i bet this was a difficult shot to execute, but you did it very well. the angle is what makes it so great i think.

Rob_W · Feb 4, 2009

Thank you for the comments, it's been printed out at A3 and hung on the wall, i'm very chuffed with it

Rob

Arch · Feb 4, 2009

great job, i like it :thumbup:

sabbath999 · Feb 4, 2009

Nominated:

February Photo Of The Month Thread

Mersad · Feb 5, 2009

sabbath999 said:
Nominated:

February Photo Of The Month Thread

Definitely deserved! :thumbup:

jv17 · Feb 5, 2009

that's really nice picture...love your shot..

Rob_W · Feb 5, 2009

Thank you

I'm not sure if if this will help anyone and i'm afraid i can more 'do' than
'explain' what i've done...

Firstly, i added a better sky (yes, i'm so sad i take pics of interesting
skies), i did this by duplicating the background layer then pasting the
new sky between the two layers. I just used the magic wand on the
upper layer (set to about 50) to delete the bland sky and let the new
one show through.

I flattened the image, then copied and pasted the red channel, which
gave a new mono layer. I altered the colour balance on the new layer
to about +20 yellow, +10 red (roughly). I then tweaked the levels down
a little to make it darker.

I created a new layer filled with black, i reduced the capacity to around
85% and used the eraser brush set to a big brush to erase the centre of
the new black layer which let the pic show through until i thought it looked
about right.

Flattened the whole image and thats pretty much how it turned out...

I hope that made some kind of sense,