A little help, please

TonyCooperTonyCooper Registered Users Posts: 2,276 Major grins
edited February 25, 2012 in Other Cool Shots
The theme for this month's camera club competition
is "Negative Space". I'm allowed to enter one color
image and one mono image.

I'd like to use this one for mono, but I wonder if it
works in mono. The reason I ask, I have another
image that works only in color that I'd like to use for
that category.

2012-02-25-04-XL.jpg

2012-02-25-05-XL.jpg
Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida
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  • rbtrbt Registered Users Posts: 171 Major grins
    edited February 25, 2012
    I like the mono better - more of the dark, gothic feel that fits the subject.
  • NealAddyNealAddy Registered Users Posts: 145 Major grins
    edited February 25, 2012
    Ditto. This image was made for B&W.
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  • teedeeteedee Registered Users Posts: 8 Beginner grinner
    edited February 25, 2012
    it works in mono, but a litle more dramatic sky would have been great though.
    Also, you was a litle careless when you dodge the color version, that creates a noticable halo around the statue that stands out a bit too much in the bw version.
  • CowboydougCowboydoug Registered Users Posts: 401 Major grins
    edited February 25, 2012
    Tony... They will tag you on the halo...
    Nice shot.
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  • toragstorags Registered Users Posts: 4,615 Major grins
    edited February 25, 2012
    +1 for the B&W.

    Negative space? Did you try a little less balustrade?
    Rags
  • TonyCooperTonyCooper Registered Users Posts: 2,276 Major grins
    edited February 25, 2012
    I didn't see the halo effect, but that's easy to fix. I dropped another sky
    in. That would move the image from "Mono" to "Creative" (according to
    our club's rules), but that's OK. I've got a few more sky images in my
    files that I can try.

    This better?

    2012-02-25-04BB-XL.jpg
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  • TonyCooperTonyCooper Registered Users Posts: 2,276 Major grins
    edited February 25, 2012
    teedee wrote: »
    it works in mono, but a litle more dramatic sky would have been great though.
    Also, you was a litle careless when you dodge the color version, that creates a noticable halo around the statue that stands out a bit too much in the bw version.

    I see the halo effect, but the Dodge/Burn tool is the one tool in Photoshop that
    I've never been able to use effectively...so I don't use it.
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  • novicesnappernovicesnapper Registered Users Posts: 445 Major grins
    edited February 25, 2012
    Tony, you're talent amazes me. Masking is something I have yet to master myself lol, nicely done.
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  • TonyCooperTonyCooper Registered Users Posts: 2,276 Major grins
    edited February 25, 2012
    teedee wrote: »
    it works in mono, but a litle more dramatic sky would have been great though.
    Also, you was a litle careless when you dodge the color version, that creates a noticable halo around the statue that stands out a bit too much in the bw version.
    novicesnapper wrote: »
    Tony, you're talent amazes me. Masking is something I have yet to master myself lol, nicely done.

    Thanks for the compliment. This involved quite a bit of masking. A
    spotlight was taken out of the image right below the figure, some
    rooftop structures behind the balustrades were removed, and
    the figure itself had to be selected to brighten it up. I forget how
    many layers were involved. All that is "legal" in my club's rules.

    What changes this from the "Mono" group to the "Creative" group
    is the use of a different sky from another image. Once two originals
    are combined, it becomes a "Creative" entry.

    The figure is a "Grotesque" or "Chimera", not a "Gargoyle". A
    gargoyle is a water spout.
    Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida
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  • teedeeteedee Registered Users Posts: 8 Beginner grinner
    edited February 25, 2012
    "I see the halo effect, but the Dodge/Burn tool is the one tool in Photoshop that
    I've never been able to use effectively...so I don't use it."

    ahh... i was only guessing. i never use tools like that either... i could see a halo so i thought that was the reason.
    now that i see that you are changing the sky... im wondering .... how was the original shot?


    edit: oh i can see the explanation in the other post now
  • CornflakeCornflake Registered Users Posts: 3,346 Major grins
    edited February 25, 2012
    Nice one! The dropped-in sky helps.
    Don
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