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What’s Your Play? - no. 2

Jul 15, 2008 Posted in What's Your Play

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focal length: 42 mm
shutter speed: 1/320
aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 200
flash: none

Ok everyone! It’s our second What’s Your Play assignment. Today I chose a non-human subject to give you a greater range of freedom for your processing. Go crazy! I can’t wait to see what you come up with.

Remember to link to your version by leaving a comment below. You are welcome to add any specifics about what you did in your processing (software used, adjusted values, cropping etc) to help us learn.

Here’s a short slideshow of all the submissions from last week:

Let me know if you don’t want me to include your play in the weekly recaps. It may not always be in a slideshow format but I’d like to display all your work for the previous WYP in one place.

And you’re all welcome to submit your own photo for manipulation as well by emailing me a high res SOOC photo to play [at] dolcepics [dot] com.

Laura is a Vancouver wedding and portrait photographer. Visit laurahana.com.

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21 Responses to “What’s Your Play? - no. 2”

Liz
Jul 15, 2008 at 5:41 am

http://www.flickr.com/photos/eleighton/2671278202/

Thanks! That was fun!
Christina
Jul 15, 2008 at 10:25 am

Here’s mine!! Thanks!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/christinator/2671941904

I love seeing the slideshow of all the interpretations. Amazing how any different feels one photo can have!

I’ll try and e-mail you some pics, too.
Kirsten Geyer
Jul 15, 2008 at 2:03 pm

Great idea! I played with Lightrooms presets.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3257/2671655961_0949177a84_o.jpg
Natalie
Jul 15, 2008 at 2:25 pm

Neat idea! I just adjusted the curves, set a color balance over it, brought down the saturation and added ANOTHER color balance. Then added an overlay of a picture of bricks I took with the opacity down, and erasing over the shoes. Let me know when you’re doing the next one!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nataliemitchell/2671201085/
Stacey
Jul 15, 2008 at 3:58 pm

Love the idea of different interpretations of the same photo. I used PSE 6. I cropped, created a duplicate layer, blurred it and set the layer to overlay. I then adjusted a new levels layer slightly and burned the edges.
Stacey
Jul 15, 2008 at 4:00 pm

oops I think I forgot the link!!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28647834@N04/2671910199/
laura
Jul 16, 2008 at 2:32 am

Awesome work everyone! Keep them coming and everyone is welcome to play along!

Here’s mine:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dolcepics/2673186647/

I went for vibrant with lots of contrast, similar to Kirsten and Stacey’s.
Megan
Jul 16, 2008 at 4:29 am

Thanks for the opportunity, it was a lot of fun!
My B&W conversion with textures,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marleysmama/2673320084/
Paul
Jul 16, 2008 at 9:44 am

Wasn’t sure how to process this pic. I tried about 4 or 5 times. This is what I came up with.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/26175930@N05/2674786770/

1. Selected shoes and inverted selection
2. Adjusted the curve to make a more wet pavement look
3. Used “Replace Colour” to change to a more lavender/purple colour.
4. Liquified the cherry on the side to make is a bit smaller so it didn’t stick out as much
5. Painted over some of the writing and lines inside the shoes.
6. Adjusted the levels a bit.
7. Copy and pasted the background
8. Added a “Radius 10.0 pixels” Gaussian blur
9. Changed the Opacity of the top layer to 20% to give the picture a bit of a glow.
10. Changed to 600×398
11. Added name to bottom left corner at 50% Opacity.
mika
Jul 16, 2008 at 10:52 am

here’s mine!

i used Aperture to up the exposure, contrast, definition, and add a vignette to enhance the focus on and color in the shoes…

http://flickr.com/photos/msquid/2674960500/
Heather
Jul 16, 2008 at 12:37 pm

A day late!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/strawberrygoldie/2674334061/
Katherine Lim
Jul 16, 2008 at 11:28 pm

I used photoshop this time.
I used the filter texture-grain and changed the brightness and contrast a bit.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25825805@N02/2676672686/
Abes
Jul 16, 2008 at 11:45 pm

Running out of ideas here…

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25283473@N04/2676704578/
Stacy
Jul 17, 2008 at 6:25 am

I’m sad I missed last week! Okay, I looked at all the submissions after I did mine and it was pretty similar to a few so I’m not going to upload it since it would be repetitious. I will for sure join next week!
Nicki
Jul 17, 2008 at 7:16 pm

I know I’m SO VERY late on this one! It was hard to think of something that hadn’t already been done already. Here’s my take:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/addymai/2678959708/
dr lyn
Jul 17, 2008 at 9:15 pm

here’s my shot at it! Should we also post them to your Flickr group? It might make it easier for all of us to see what we cam up with! I’d love to see them, but my internet connection is sometimes so slow it’s hard to click on each link!! Love your site!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/11439752@N04/2679212006/

thanks for letting me play!
Melissa B (aka Photomom86)
Jul 17, 2008 at 10:03 pm

Here is my play for the week. These shoes are just so cute.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24035778@N04/2678488225/
laura
Jul 19, 2008 at 1:30 am

This is so great! Thanks everyone for playing so far! If you would like to add your own edit to this list, please do! I’ll be gathering all the images up and make a collage or slideshow so we can see them all in one place.

@dr lyn: Were you able to view the slideshow from last week?
Christy
Jul 19, 2008 at 11:43 am

I know I am sooo late, but I haven’t had the time I had fun with this one, just doing what ever I felt like. I love how everyone’s is so different. Can’t wait until next weeks!

http://flickr.com/photos/cdwells711/2682372977/
laura
Jul 22, 2008 at 1:23 am

#3 is up!

http://www.dolcepics.com/whatsyourplay/3/
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