Manipulations
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Building an Image – “The Lair”
My club lecture “Building an Image” deals with my method of working and how my images are created. This snippet shows the building of a recent image and I’ve picked out some key stages, though not all the layers are shown. The working title of this image is “The Lair”. The starting point is a trompe-l’œil. Most of the building is real and three dimensional but the hole in the front is faked. The enticing message “this is a photo-opportunity” means you can’t really walk past it without being tempted to take a shot! The building was shot against a bright sky and didn’t have much light on it, so…
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Tone Mapping in Lightroom
What is tone mapping? Tone mapping is simply a way of re-mapping (changing) one set of colours/tones in an image to another set. So many times I hear people say that they don’t like tone mapping, but anyone who is using photo-editing tools to change/improve the tonal range of their image is actually tone mapping it, just as when we burn and dodge an image in the darkroom process – that’s tone mapping too. Tone mapping copes with the problem of too much contrast in an image but how much you tone map an image is a matter of personal choice and taste. Go too far and it looks grungy…
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This week’s doodles
With Impact Group’s meeting coming up on Weds, I’ve struggled to make time for some new images! Membership of the group encourages the appraisal of up to 6 new images per month and this month I’ve left it a bit late, so it’s all been a bit rushed. These are 6 new doodles, all processed over the last few nights, three straight photos and three composites.
