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focal length: 24 mm
shutter speed: 1/1250
aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 200
flash: none
Is it Tuesday already? Here’s your 3rd WYP assignment! I shot this yesterday in the evening at about 7:00pm. I find that shooting at this time in the sun gives a beautiful golden glow. This image is SOOC compressed from the RAW file. Have a go at it and make it your own!
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. Click here to read the complete rules for What’s Your Play. Remember, all readers are invited to submit their own photos for manipulation by emailing a high res photo (preferably SOOC) to play [at] dolcepics [dot] com.
And of course, the collection of all your plays from last week’s WYP:
It just amazes me how everyone has a different touch when it comes to post processing. They are all equally creative and excellent! Thanks so much to Liz, Christina, Kirsten, Natalie, Stacey, Megan, Paul, Mika, Heather, Katherine, Abes, Nicki, dr lyn, Melissa B (aka PhotoMom86) and Christy for posting your edit!
I look forward to seeing all your versions for today’s WYP soon!
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shelli
Jul 22, 2008 at 3:32 am
Yay! It’s the first time I’ve had a chance to do this! Here’s mine:
http://www.mamaofletters.com/Mama_of_Letters/Camera_Happy/Pages/Whats_Your_Play.html#0
Kely
Jul 22, 2008 at 7:32 am
Hi. This is my first time to play. I was just introduced to your website from Nicki. Here is my first go with this picture. Thanks for doing this. It is really interesting to see everyone’s take on a picture.
http://flickr.com/photos/vietnamlucy/2692118067/
Jonni
Jul 22, 2008 at 8:29 am
I can’t wait to do this. Please don’t laugh at me too much since this is my first shot. I will post the link to it when I finish it. I love this, what fun!
Hugs,
Jonni
Wayfaring Wanderer
Jul 22, 2008 at 9:26 am
I love the let’s chase our shadow game…..such a cute photo!
laura
Jul 22, 2008 at 10:04 am
Keep ‘em coming and Jonni, there’s no laughing here! Everyone has a unique eye when it comes to photography and we’re here to celebrate the diversity!
Here’s mine:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dolcepics/2691540151/
I went a little heavy on the effect this time, just to try something different from my regular processing.
shelli
Jul 22, 2008 at 1:16 pm
I forgot to mention that I used iPhoto!
Jonni
Jul 22, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Laura,
Just checked out your photo, it looks great! I like the effect a lot. Perfect for the picture. Here’s mine http://www.flickr.com/photos/86529045@N00/2693067863/
I kept changing it midstream. Too many choices (lol).
Jonni
What’s your play? « Something Cheeky
Jul 22, 2008 at 3:06 pm
[...] to edit as they wish. This is my submission for the third week. You can see her original shot here and my “plays” here. Go to her site and click on the comments to see everyone [...]
Kirsten Geyer
Jul 22, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Here’s mine…
http://somethingcheeky.wordpress.com/2008/07/22/whats-your-play/
I wanted to pretty much blow out everything but the shadow…just slide a bunch of bars around in Lightroom.
Nicki
Jul 22, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Sheesh. This one was impossibly hard!!! I just could not get it how I wanted and finally gave up with less than stellar results:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/addymai/2693746223/
Christy
Jul 22, 2008 at 10:14 pm
I loved this one! It reminded me of Peter Pan chasing after his shadow, so cute.
Now I am off to look at the rest of the submissions
Christy
Jul 22, 2008 at 10:15 pm
Guess my link helps too
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cdwells711/2694317113/
Paul
Jul 23, 2008 at 8:41 am
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26175930@N05/2696161386/
Just a quick 5 minute go at it. Tried a type of selective colouring.
1. Transform -> skewed the picture to make the shadow longer and Sophie more upright.
2. Selected around her and inversed the selection.
3. Changed the levels and then adjusted the Hue/Saturation.
4. Inversed the selection again and colour balanced Sophie.
5. Adjusted the levels on Sophie.
6. Deselected.
7. Added a bit of Unsharpen mask.
8. Selected all to make a copy of the layer.
9. Pasted a layer and then added a Gaussian blur of 10 points.
10. Adjusted the layer opacity to 20%.
Christina
Jul 23, 2008 at 12:47 pm
I’m late, but I’m here! I had a hard time with this one, it was a good challenge. here’s mine…not entirely happy with it, tho.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/christinator/2695929141/
Carrie Hasson
Jul 23, 2008 at 4:05 pm
ok, so here’s my take…this was so much fun and really neat to see what everyone comes up with. nothing fancy from me, I use Lightroom and cropped it, increased the blacks and contrast, decreased the exposure slightly and played a tiny bit with the blue and green saturation do give it a slightly darker feel. so NOT technical i know!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/carelovely/
Katherine Lim
Jul 23, 2008 at 10:19 pm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25825805@N02/2697185817/
I used Lightroom.
- Cropped the image
- Used the preset: Aged photo
- tweaked the exposure and recovery
- changed some hues and saturations
It was fun!
Abes
Jul 24, 2008 at 7:55 pm
You gotta take the goods with the bads in life… so voila, sunshine and rain.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25283473@N04/2699632915/
Heather
Jul 25, 2008 at 5:03 pm
This one definitely challenged me.
I. LOVE. THAT.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/strawberrygoldie/2701878043/
Tracie
Jul 28, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Okay … I got a little crazy here … My husband took the kids to mcdonald’s Saturday morning, which left me with TOO much time to play with this! Sorry for so many pix …
http://www.tmstier.com/Photography/WYP/Pages/wyp_-_no._3.html
I think my favs are 6, 12 & 13. My dominant thought was to accentuate her and the shadow and I think these “plays” do it best.