Old Woman

Ted Szukalski

Another strong image today. An old lady gathering something from the bin. This is Syudney's Pitt Street Mall and she is there almost everyday.



The effect you see here is colour burn. The lady and the bin were selected (as closely as I could) than I have reversed the select mask and burnt everything. This brings her and the bin into first plane. With the original image duplicated into new layer I have created a noisy image - close to old 400ISO film. Merged this with the underlaying image at 67% opacity.

As always, click on the link or the thumbnail to see the full photograph of the old woman.

System

I'm not sure about the PS effects but I do like the image. Feels very 1972 snapshotish to me with the grain and adjusted exposure.

Bakat

Again Ted, you excel at portraying humanity!

Kat

wxwax

I like this, Ted. Wish I could see a bit of her arm reaching in, but that's getting picky. Very telling moment.

Ted Szukalski

Truth, I take my photos in the middle of the day. Streets are quite busy with people, even if in this photo most are going away from the subject (which adds drama). The background turned very bright and was distracting. I must confess I also simply wanted to show the burn effect and how it can emphasise the selected element.

truth wrote:

I'm not sure about the PS effects but I do like the image. Feels very 1972 snapshotish to me with the grain and adjusted exposure.

Ted Szukalski

Sid, there was not much more to show, she is a tiny lady.

wxwax wrote:

I like this, Ted. Wish I could see a bit of her arm reaching in, but that's getting picky. Very telling moment.

Ted Szukalski

Thanks Kat.

Bakat wrote:

Again Ted, you excel at portraying humanity!

Kat

Fusion_UK

Ted Szukalski wrote:

Another strong image today. An old lady gathering something from the bin. This is Syudney's Pitt Street Mall and she is there almost everyday.



The effect you see here is colour burn. The lady and the bin were selected (as closely as I could) than I have reversed the select mask and burnt everything. This brings her and the bin into first plane. With the original image duplicated into new layer I have created a noisy image - close to old 400ISO film. Merged this with the underlaying image at 67% opacity.

As always, click on the link or the thumbnail to see the full photograph of the old woman.

An excellent candid/reportage style shot. Ian