Little things can have great effect

[pecunium]

I took a picture of a stool on the balcony. As shot it's an oversaturated bit of stuff. A decent composition, but the image is nothing to write home about.

So I was working with my student, playing with the tools of the editor, and opened the file; because the snow would be a good thing to show how sharpening affects an image.

And I "oversharpened" it. A lot.

It was good. Not great, the colors were a little off, but the dull eveneness of the stool was gone.

So I slapped a monochrome filter onto it, et voila it was film noir-ish.

Comments

[mitejen.livejournal.com]

I looked at the pic, thought 'Hm, kinda reminds me of noir' and then read the post. You're so right. I can see Lauren Bacall or Barbara Stanwyck swan into the frame, light a cigarette, and then belligerently not answer the protagonist's questions for ten minutes.

[ann-totusek.livejournal.com]

I'm a nurse. I read the sentence before I could see any of the picture. I giggled.

[lwj2.livejournal.com]

Rad Tech. Yeah.

[janetl.livejournal.com]

Now I'm having memories of playing with BW high contrast and solarizing the print...

[niamh-sage.livejournal.com]

The treatment makes the snow look like some kind of magic dust :D
Do you have the original shot somewhere for comparison?

[sunfell.livejournal.com]

Sugar-snow!

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

I thought of that. Give me a bit and I'll dig it out. I didn't do anything with the original, becuase it's boring, and I hadn't thought about writing this piece when I did it, so yes, I have the original, and no, it's not available right now, but I ought to do a shot of it, "normally" processed.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

The original is now added, behind a cut.

[niamh-sage.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It's amazing to see the contrast between the two.

[athenais.livejournal.com]

Excellent processing choice.