Reflections in sepia

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Reflections in sepia

Postby owen on Thu Jun 08, 2006 6:43 pm

Comments welcome on this... was taken in the middle of the day so the light wasn't right, so tried to do something in photoshop to make it salvageable. What do you think?

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Postby Matt. K on Thu Jun 08, 2006 6:45 pm

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That is a beautiful photograph! And it is technically excellent! How did you apply the sepia?
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Postby Alpha_7 on Thu Jun 08, 2006 6:53 pm

Works for me Owen, nice sepia workover and good relfections and composition.
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Postby antman on Thu Jun 08, 2006 6:55 pm

I like this one. Great work.
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Postby owen on Thu Jun 08, 2006 6:59 pm

Actually, when I took the photo I wanted the edit reflections to be a big part, but they were not as obvious as I had hoped due to the water being transparent... so I was playing with the different colour channels in photoshop and the blue channel pretty much removed all the stuff under the water so reflections stood out more. The green channel had a darker sky than the blue channel, so I copied both layers into a new canvas, applied a gradient layer so half of each coloured layer will show through.

So then I had a black and white image, duplicated the layer and ran the default sepia action, adjusted the hue and saturation slightly then reduced the opacity of the sepia layer until I got what I liked and then applied a slight vignette to the image.

Overall I was suprised at the blue channel... selecting that was like turning a polariser from full polarising effect down to 0.

Thanks for the comments gentlemen.
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Postby MCWB on Thu Jun 08, 2006 7:01 pm

Simply stunning Owen! The only thing that detracts for me is that the LHS and bottom seem to have been chopped off a bit. Apart from that minor composition issue it completely rocks, sensational image! :D
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Postby owen on Thu Jun 08, 2006 7:05 pm

Thanks very much Trent :)
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Postby Nnnnsic on Thu Jun 08, 2006 7:23 pm

What a great image, Owen. :)
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Postby admajic on Thu Jun 08, 2006 7:36 pm

Hey Owen, if this was one of your images that wasnt quite right. Id love to see one of your images that was right :) 8)
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Postby bindiblue on Thu Jun 08, 2006 7:37 pm

Awesome shot Owen,, love the sepia,

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Postby blacknstormy on Thu Jun 08, 2006 7:39 pm

Nice one Owen !!!
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Postby owen on Thu Jun 08, 2006 7:41 pm

Thanks Leigh :)

Thanks for all the comments everyone.

If you're interested this is known as Swan Lake, down near Sussex Inlet. I had to go out to a tourist park today and stopped off on my way back.
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Postby owen on Thu Jun 08, 2006 7:44 pm

Here is the difference between the red and blue channels. Hopefully you can see what I mean about the difference in the reflections.

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Postby marcotrov on Thu Jun 08, 2006 7:58 pm

Terrific image that is well suited to this treatment owen :)
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Postby Bob G on Thu Jun 08, 2006 8:12 pm

It really has worked well for you here Owen - well done

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Postby johnd on Thu Jun 08, 2006 8:27 pm

An excellent image Owen.
That treatment gives it a timeless quality.
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Postby LostDingo on Thu Jun 08, 2006 8:33 pm

Nice image Owen...the toning works really well with this and contrast in the tree works really well, has great detail.

Very interesting how the channels affected the reflection as shown :idea:
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Postby mudder on Thu Jun 08, 2006 9:12 pm

I reckon this really works a treat, well done with the PP, you've done a terrific job...
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Postby owen on Thu Jun 08, 2006 9:13 pm

Thanks for the kind comments guys :)
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Postby avkomp on Thu Jun 08, 2006 9:19 pm

works for me owen.
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Postby stormygirl on Thu Jun 08, 2006 9:54 pm

This is just a sensational image Owen. It really has the 'wow' factor, well done with the PPing.....just brilliant! :up:
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Postby Ordinary K on Fri Jun 09, 2006 11:41 am

owen wrote:Here is the difference between the red and blue channels. Hopefully you can see what I mean about the difference in the reflections.


Struth... hadn't thought it'd be that big a difference.
Makes sense I suppose - most of the non-tree reflection is be of *blue* sky.

Excellent use of technique to bring home a good image - well done.

Just an idle thought - have you considered removing the tree branches that stick in from the LHS? It'd be a lot of work, but might give you a second top shot (?).

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Postby Hlop on Fri Jun 09, 2006 11:52 am

Great work and creativity, Owen!
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Postby terminator on Fri Jun 09, 2006 12:14 pm

Really like this.
First rate reflection shot.
Heaps of atmosphere.
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Postby makario on Fri Jun 09, 2006 4:20 pm

Wow, I really like it!
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Postby myarhidia on Fri Jun 09, 2006 5:27 pm

owen wrote:Actually, when I took the photo I wanted the edit reflections to be a big part, but they were not as obvious as I had hoped due to the water being transparent... so I was playing with the different colour channels in photoshop and the blue channel pretty much removed all the stuff under the water so reflections stood out more. The green channel had a darker sky than the blue channel, so I copied both layers into a new canvas, applied a gradient layer so half of each coloured layer will show through.

So then I had a black and white image, duplicated the layer and ran the default sepia action, adjusted the hue and saturation slightly then reduced the opacity of the sepia layer until I got what I liked and then applied a slight vignette to the image.

Overall I was suprised at the blue channel... selecting that was like turning a polariser from full polarising effect down to 0.

Thanks for the comments gentlemen.


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great image & extremely effective PP'ing. I would really love to see this in the Post Processing section with some screen dumps, more detailed instructions, etc as you were going along as this is the kind of information that would enhance this already great website. :up:
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Postby owen on Fri Jun 09, 2006 7:37 pm

Thanks guys.

I'll gladly take some screen dumps and put it into a step by step guide. Hopefully I'll get time tomorrow and I'll post it up.

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Postby jethro on Fri Jun 09, 2006 9:36 pm

Owen ***ken great image. say no more
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