12-02-2024, 11:54 AM
A fun facade you captured there, Don.
Two days ago I took a couple of photos of colorful ivy leaves on a wrought iron gate. One was acceptably sharp, but another was so out of focus that it showed nothing but round shapes of soft color. I got it into my mind that maybe I could the versions together to produce an image with an interesting mix of bright and strong colors and softer, less intense glowing colors. This turned out to be quite a challenge.
I opened both images in Photoshop then tried about a dozen times to resize the blurred one to match the sharper one, finally getting it right.
Then a crop for better composition and a final round of sharpening here and there.
It was a lot of work, and turned out only partly successful...
There was a much easier way - I should have tried one of the quite simple yet effective ways to produce what's called "The Gorton Look".
Two days ago I took a couple of photos of colorful ivy leaves on a wrought iron gate. One was acceptably sharp, but another was so out of focus that it showed nothing but round shapes of soft color. I got it into my mind that maybe I could the versions together to produce an image with an interesting mix of bright and strong colors and softer, less intense glowing colors. This turned out to be quite a challenge.
I opened both images in Photoshop then tried about a dozen times to resize the blurred one to match the sharper one, finally getting it right.
Then a crop for better composition and a final round of sharpening here and there.
It was a lot of work, and turned out only partly successful...
There was a much easier way - I should have tried one of the quite simple yet effective ways to produce what's called "The Gorton Look".
Don't blame me - I didn't vote for him!
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