I had the idea for an image that was nagging me, so on Saturday while it was lovely and sunny i dragged Chris out to Willaston to go and photograph the old train station. I ended up with 70 odd images hoping one would be ‘the one’. Today, after i pried my laptop from my daughters pre-teen fingers, i decided to tackle my idea. Then realised i didn’t have any idea how to go about it. I visited my favorite ‘how to’ blog (thanks Russel Ray) but couldn’t find what i wanted there so ventured onto youtube and found it first time! http://youtu.be/AvKXaCXZKWs flyingicestudios. So after a try or three i finally managed to figure it out and after three hours managed to come up with this image.
This is how it started life.
Which one do you favour? I like both but am particularly please with the black and white one and with myself for achieving it!
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Wonderful Day and wonderful photographs
They are both nice, but I favor the color one.
Thanks Lowell,
I like them both a lot as well. But I favor the colored one a bit more.
I´d go for the colour one. Although if you´d made the sky more dramatic in the B/W it might have tipped the ballance for me!
Cheers
Charles
Thanks Charles, i will have a look and see what can be done, maybe i will add a couple more images with different effect, use different programs.
I agree with Charles – sort of :-)… I like the B/W one, but it would be a lot better if you worked on your tonal quality – a bit drab for a B&W.
Dan
my thoughts too, i got sick of looking at the image so posted it, sometimes you can look at things too hard, i will go back to it though in a couple of days and see what pops.
I agree that I favor the colored one. Looking at the colored one, my focus is completely drawn in by way of the r.r. tracks, taking me on a “journey” passing the wonderful phone booth and building. Observing the B&W, the only thing I see is the phone book and sign, losing the “story” if meant to be told. I do love Black and Whites though!
Thanks for your comment Bev
There is a photoshop tutorial on color splash and a bit of tweaking here: http://photoshopper27.blogspot.in/2012/12/color-splash-in-photoshop.html
Thanks,, i have had a look at a few of the tutorials there, very helpful.