Fantasy Walkway

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Fantasy Walkway

Postby Yi-P on Sun Aug 20, 2006 12:58 pm

Had a little play with this picture in photoshop, tried to create this ghostly and fantasy dream world. What do you think?

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It works for me

Postby zafra52 on Sun Aug 20, 2006 1:15 pm

I think it works pretty well, don't you? It conveys to me a cold winter morning as I venture into the outside world with dreamy eyes more than a ghostly feeling. And thanks for letting us learners know you used Photoshop to create the effect. Some times it is difficult to tell if the photographer used a hardware filter or a software one.
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Postby Alpha_7 on Sun Aug 20, 2006 4:19 pm

I like it, I think it works well.
Where was it taken ?
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Postby PiroStitch on Sun Aug 20, 2006 7:31 pm

I like the treatment but how about a neutral b&w conversion rather than the blue. The blue is too strong if you're going for a dreamy atmosphere.
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Postby Yi-P on Sun Aug 20, 2006 9:30 pm

Thanks all,

Craig, it was taken few days ago from a park in Melbourne.


PiroStitch,
I've tried the BW before, looks very moody and then I added this blue hue tone on top for the cold feelings. Will try to post up the BW or other tone versions as well. :)
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Postby mudder on Mon Aug 21, 2006 9:19 pm

I like the dreamy effect, the composition takes me straight to the person walking (be tempted to clone out what looks like another person in the distance, to have the lone figure), haunting image, I like the toning too...

Works well...
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