I was kinda inspired by the jsp365 topic earlier and went to the cemetery again and tried to take some dark and depressing pictures. I am not sure if I succeeded though because I think I look more like a questionable character or a vandal than someone mourning the loss of a loved one at a cemetery -.-

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3. I kinda changed the brightness of the sky in this pic.


4. I changed the brightness of the sky in this one too then I spent over an hour trying to make the edges to blend in -.- maybe I should have tried HDRi instead.


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Maybe if you were holding some flowers implying that you were visiting the cemetery?

Also the one of the statue where you brightened the sky, you can clearly see that the edges are edgy - lol but I think you knew that.

The best one I'd say is the one with the car in it. But again the edges seem weird lol

This post was edited by chantal7 on Jul 15 2009 12:06am

okeya nice photos
here i suppose you men sth like this ?



how you would have done it:
edit with gimp doge tool + "fuzzy circle"-pin scaled to 10 then slightly move arround the borders

haha forgive me but the first 2 pics look like the guy pees on that grave

I like the limo shot and I love b/w in general.

hmm I actually thought of bringing some flowers with me but I was kinda too lazy and maybe too cheap to go to a florist lol. Thanks for the suggestion though.

Those stupid edgy edges were really pissing me off lol I mean I wasted more than an hour and a half trying to blending the edges into the background without success -.- That's why I said that I should have tried HDRi instead.

Speaking of the car shot. I actually got another one but it got ruined because some car drove by when I pressed the shutter button :\



uh nah. I just wanted that picture to have well exposed sky that blend in nicely and beautifully with the rest of the picture instead of all those stupid edgy edges lol.

[QUOTE=RoOkieTeRra,Wed, Jul 15 2009, 05:52am]haha forgive me but the first 2 pics look like the guy pees on that grave

I like the limo shot and I love b/w in general.[/QUOTE

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Well I guess I really should have brought some flowers with me
at least it looks better than the one I took of myself kneeling in front of the grave lol.
It just kinda looks so weird and umm awkward?


This post was edited by Futurama on Jul 15 2009 11:33pm

Alright! I think I have found a pretty easy way to get properly exposed sky and objects without using two differently exposed pictures.
It's almost the same as those composite images except I put whole images on top of each other than change opacity to around 50%.

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Before: