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

[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.