Rothenburg ob der Tauber

No that *is* interesting. Like straight out of a fairy tale. I like (German) fairy tales, and I like this. It's original all right, whatever that means...

 

BTW the correct name is Rothenburg ob der Tauber.

I hate mispelling things and that one was a doozy. Thanks for the catch, and the comment too!

I was struck by the almost painterly quality of this lovely photograph. I assume you did some afterwork in Photoshop or such - I wouldn't criticise you on that count because the results would justify it.

This photo is amazing!! Please say how much work was done in photoshop (I don't think photoshop is good or bad; just a tool like a camera, or an enlarger, or cibachrome paper, etc). I am fascinated. I would love to see the orginal (unretouched) photo for comparison.

 

Are you sure this is not a photo of a painting?!? Awesome composition w/ the wall drawing the eye in, great sky, textures, whole nine yards.

 

The smear in UL beside the roof of the tower is the only drawback that I notice. What is it?

 

All the best,

 

-iggy

I started with a photograph I took in Rothenburg in January of 2001. Since it was winter none of the trees had leaves. In addition I felt that the light on the building was too harsh and the sky did not have enough umph. I guess I thought the photograph had potential but it needed more. I decided to give it a more of a art feel. To achieve the desired affect I first darkened the hue of the blue in the photograph. I then lowered the contrast so that the harshness of the sun on the building was toned down, but only slightly. Now here comes the fun part, I used a tool known as "Adust Local Equalization". I adjusted this to achieve the desired effect. Here is where I mention that I am not a photoshop user, I use Corel PhotoPaint!. It is not because I don't like Photoshop, nor is it because I am a Corel snob. This is because I have been using Corel since version 3 (they are now on version 11) and I am very comfortable with the controls and the interface. I do not know what the equilivant is in Photoshop, but I am sure there probably is one. I have referenced the original photograph below as a starting point. Please let me know if you find the equivilant for this tool if there is one.

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It looks very good, but it also looks very small ! :-) Any chance you could upload a larger version...? It is very difficult to appreciate how well executed a Photoshop work is at such a size. Regards.

Excellent job !

You did a great job with PSP. I like it very much.

Beautiful. You turned and ordinary photograph into a fairy tale!

This is absolutely awesome digital manipulation you did here. Now I'll have to try to recreate it in photoshop....

What an excellent transformation from the original. Thanks for including it so we can all see what is possible.

This is one I want to hang on my wall. Zer gut!

I like the effect, and would also like to see it bigger. Reminds me of chalk.