Richmond BC

great, touching work !

I shot this image in color(digital), and found that it just did not

have the emotion I wanted. I decided to desaturate it - but I was

still not happy with it. So I decided to start over again and

desaturated the river and its houses only, darken and saturate the

sky. That brought another dilemna because it was obviously separated

in two. It took me a long time to clone information along the

separation line.

 

If you know an easier method I might have used please let me know?

 

Cheers,

Ringo

take your raw image as the base layer in photoshop. right click the layer in the layers window and select duplicate layer. apply first effect that you wish to have in part of the image. say, desaturate. with a large, feathered eraser, go in and erase out on the effect layer everything that is not included in the effect. never modify the original bottom layer. duplicate the original layer again beneath your first duplicate to apply another effect if desired. the largeness and feathering of the eraser will blend the effects together nicely and it takes very luittle time. i could do the above image with better results in maybe 10 minutes

 

Another winner, Ringo.

Beautiful photo!

Great colors, good interesting subject.

this is one of the moodiest shots I've seen in a long time. Excellent job!

Beautiful work.

However you achieved this it certainly has created a mood. It actually makes Richmond look interesting. The light really does it. I'll have to come across the strait and have a closer look.

Great original shot. Somehow, I like it better than if it would be just plain B&W. Rich

Looks wet.

I was stanging in a little bridge that passes on top of the river. I was comfortable - wish I had a more compelling story to tell.

Excellent composition, very well done. 7/7