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.