Was looking around for something to work with this evening and found some chard in the refrigerator. The stem and veins got me to thinking about shooting it like I did the sweet potatoes yesterday.
Using my 70-300mm macro lens, which I used yesterday as well, I put the black fabric on the floor and my tripod fully extended above it. Thankfully the tripod extends out to almost 7 feet so I had to stand on a chair to look through the viewfinder. I took several shots at different shutter speeds and aperture to try and get the best highlight and shadow details. This my shot of the day is the best shot but I wanted to see if I could make it more like I was envisioning.
This next shot is a composition of two shots.
My photo of the day is the base and another much darker version seen below was layered over to help bring in some detail.
Using Photoshop I had my photo of the day as the background image. I pulled the darker image over so it was layer 1. I used the overlay blend mode with layer 1 and then did two separate level adjustments. The first (3rd layer) was to lighten a little and the second (4th layer) was to darken. I did it this way because I used a mask on the 4th layer. With the mask I inverted it (ctrl+backspace) and painted back in some of the dark at a low opacity. Below is a screenshot of my layers panel.
5 comments:
It's really interesting to see all the different variations on a theme. It certainly gives me some ideas.
another nice composition ... I like the dark mood.......
I love the image, but I thought you want to put not edited pictures on your blog? ;)
Well, your hard work paid off- you produced an amazing image. Very cool.
Thanks everyone.
Suselek...my goal was to only post unedited shots but at the halfway point I mentioned that I would still post unedited as my daily but on occasion post an edited version as well for those that may be curious about how I would do some post processing work. :)
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