EXPRESSING CREATIVITY: Media Arts - photography, videography, photo collage, etc.

[Jishin]

Jishin I am naive about editing photos besides cropping and adding light. What tool do you use to darken the background but focus on the color of the flower?

Doshin
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Here is another example where I found shade for the background and light from the sun to illuminate my German Shepherd. It was very easy to make the background go away with a paint brush in this case.

Before:



After:



A professional photographer would have the benefit of a studio and would have a much easier time with black backgrounds (if I could support my family taking pictures I would ).

Gassho, Jishin, __/stlah\__

[Jishin]

Jishin I am naive about editing photos besides cropping and adding light. What tool do you use to darken the background but focus on the color of the flower?

Doshin
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One of the most powerful ways to make changes to your whole picture is using the curve tool. It is not a brush but it can accentuate lights and darks so things pop. It's tricky at first but after you get the hang of it you can ditch the dark and white sliders. Most of the editors have this feature.

Gassho, Jishin, __/stlah\__

[Seikan]

Jishin,

I'm right there with you about Lightroom. I originally trained in film photography, and I feel that Lightroom best mimics the printing process I used to employ in the darkroom, albeit digitally.

I only ever use Photoshop if I absolutely need to composite images, but otherwise I avoid it as much as possible (too complicated).

Gassho,
Rob

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[Meitou]

Here is an example of what I talked about with Lightroom:



When I took this picture I knew I wanted a black background so I tried to find something that was a little dark in the background.



Then I used a paint brush to darken the background (I don’t know how to use Photoshop very well and I never can get the layers right with it so I prefer Lightroom. With Lightroom I can also go back to specific changes made to a photo from the end result not having to recreate the entire photo as in Photoshop).



Pictures 2 and 3 are the end result.

Gassho, Jishin, __/stlah\__

Fantastic work and thanks for explaining the process, I might have to try this out now.
I'm loving this thread, great photos and lots of info exchange, brilliant!
Gassho
Meitou
Sattoday lah

[Jishin]

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[Cooperix]

WoW!
A tutorial! Thanks all. Incredible work.

Bows
Anne

~lahst~

[Cooperix]

The world in a horse's eye!

smokeys eye.jpg

bows...
Anne

~lahst~

[Jishin]

Love the image Anne. Is that you and another horse in the reflection?

Gassho, Jishin, __/stlah\__

[Cooperix]

Love the image Anne. Is that you and another horse in the reflection?

Gassho, Jishin, __/stlah\__

Thanks Jishin.
That's me, the side of the stable, his own shadow and the NM blue sky reflected in his eye.

Gassho
A.

~lahst~

[Jishin]

Super cool Anne.

Gassho, Jishin, __/stlah\__

[Jishin]

This is an attempt to capture moving car lights at night by me. I don't have a lot of experience with this type of picture but it works better with a tripod to avoid camera shake. The speed of camera has to be slowed down so it captures a longer period of light. This was in Vegas right before Covid and I was on an overpass.

[Doshin]

Great photos all...

With all this knowledge shared and good works I am going to ponder my next artistic attempt.

Doshin
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[Onka]

Diane Arbus

Going back to this original quote, I took some snaps of our ripostiglio, which I think all Italian homes have in one form or another - anything from a glorified broom cupboard, to a large storage space. We live in a very small apartment so our ripostiglio is of the broom cupboard variety. From the start my husband appropriated the space for his 'stuff' and he has a certain way of storing his tools etc which is very particular to him. Every one of these photos is a narrative, steeped in his story, his character, his creative touches. To me they represent his secret life, his inner self. This tiny space has no window and no lighting, just a bulb rigged up from a source in the corridor, hence the rather muddy tone and slightly out of focus images which I felt contributed to the sense of intimacy,

I would like to thank everyone who is contributing to this thread and making it such a joy to look through.
Gassho
Meitou
sattoday lah

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LOVE LOVE LOVE these Meitou!
I find so much beauty in the every day.
Gassho Onka
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[Onka]

The world in a horse's eye!

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bows...
Anne

~lahst~

This is perfect Anne
My partner has a close up of our horse's nose as her screen background. There's so much within her photo that it could be anything if you didn't know.
Gassho Onka
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[Onka]

This is an attempt to capture moving car lights at night by me. I don't have a lot of experience with this type of picture but it works better with a tripod to avoid camera shake. The speed of camera has to be slowed down so it captures a longer period of light. This was in Vegas right before Covid and I was on an overpass.

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. I think you captured what you wanted to.
Gassho Onka
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