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Published: 2006-12-29 17:05:37 +0000 UTC; Views: 3649; Favourites: 75; Downloads: 78
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Recently I found out about a railroad museum near Darmstadt, Germany. They have some sidings full of old rotten and 'cannibalized' wagons grown together with weeds and blackberry bushes...Dear sprayers kids, I respect and admire graffiti art, but please stay away of this site. Your 5-minute-beginner-bombings and whack-ass characters just don't fit a wagon from the 40's!
b/w conversion via LAB mode, contrast pushed with Channel Mixer (monochrome), additional gradient layer
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"Dear sprayers kids, I respect and admire graffiti art, but please stay away of this site. Your 5-minute-beginner-bombings and whack-ass characters just don't fit a wagon from the 40's!"
LOL!
This reminds me of the train yard that can be found 15-30 mins away from where I live. It's also attacked my amateur graffiti artist.
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and thanks for sharing the edge source
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beautiful imaginary, truly is. & the edges you've used add such lovely mode to it.
wow. & may I see... you have got some great resources. the edges are great and so useable.
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Thank you very much
Can't wait to make these kind of edge in the dark room
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I really dig those contrasts. The light is absolutely wonderful.
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Thanks. Oh, that day was fabulous - the sky was just like one big ass softbox - a thin layer of high fog with the sun shining through. I wish these conditions would occure more often
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Nice motive,
An abandoned train always does have this eery feel to it. Makes me feel like going out and do some exploring again myself.
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Es gibt nichts Gutes, ausser man tut es!
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the tones look amazing and the signature really fits! well done!!
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thanks for the detailed reply!...
i'd respond there... but i want to keep that handy so i can try that technique... and i can't fav comments...
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gorgeous tones...
i assume the gradient layer is responsible for the light effect, right?...
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Thank you. There is some slight amount of brownish red to make the black warmer.
And yes, the gradient adds some kind of vignette feeling to it. Because of the back-light the sky looked boring so I added another gradient..
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i hope you don't mind a couple more questions, but how do you add the reddish-brown?... with an adjustment layer and the color balance?... or some other way?... and do you select the shadows when you do and do you apply the change to the whole image?...
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I often use the gradient map (as adjustment layer) with black as shadows, (in this case) dark red somewhere in the mids and a warm redish white as lights. Because it's hard for me to find the right values, I do the fine tuning with decreasing the opacity of the adjustment layer. Other ppl use the duplex mode, but I think the gradient map has more potential...
...In this particular case I duplicated the image layer (ctrl-j) and applied a gradient map directly to it. Then I changed the layer mode from normal to overlay with arround 30% opacity to increase the shadows even more. As you can see there's not much left of the red. My goal wasn't a duotone, but a warm b&w..
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ok... i tried this... but i can't figure how to use the gradient map... any clues/suggestions?...
(i was, however, able to due something similar by making an adjustment layer with the channel mixer)...
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...i wish i simply could record a little sequence and send it to you
a gradient map easily exchanges the existing color and luminance information by adjusting two or more colors as a gradient. e.g. if you have an image which shows a gradient from black to white and you replace black by green you'll get a gradient from green to white...
if you open the gradient map (as an adjustment layer or under image/settings/gradient map) you'll see a gradient made out of the actual back and foreground colors. if you click on this gradient another window pops up giving you further access to adjust the gradient. in the upperleft part of the window you should see some presets and at the bottom a gradient with some markers for shadows, mids and lights above and below it. double click on the markers below it and another window, containing a color palette, will pop up. by adjusting black as shadows, white as lights and a dark red somewhere in the mids, you can achieve a (s)lightly red toned b/w
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i finally found time to try the gradient map again... and, thanks to your instructions, i understood perfectly this time... thanks!...
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HORRRAAAY
glad I could help. Have fun in the world of mighty gradient maps
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Sweet, I would like to see that place in person. Bet it was hard not to run out of film when you were there. Very nice, man.
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That's true. Unfortunately most of the wagons are locked. Have to visit the actual museum one day..
Thank you!
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wow, these black and whites you are doing are amazing. it's a big change from your usual pace and it's paying off. great shot, and thanks for the borders.
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Thank you
Yeah, I needed to do something different - and it's feeling good.
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I really like what you're doing with these frames.
It adds a lot to the feeling of the photos here.
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yeah, I love the borders and finally how to make them in the darkroom
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Yeah, that boggles my mind how you do that in the darkroom.
You'll have to show me one of these days.
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