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Create an image of Fine Arts and photos with Photoshop
Siri Stafford, my artistic director at the time, suggested this image file for me. She asked that the picture because he thought my specialty to use Photoshop to create images of stock conceptual I made a logical choice for the job. Sincerely, loved the idea, but what you got to lightning strikes a tree very look like?
I turned to the technological development has changed radically if the world of commercial photography … Internet. Simply type in the image search from Google "lightning and the tree." Within minutes he had found pictures of amateurs … but obviously real images, which lightning strikes as impressive trees. Now I had something to work.
In my mind, I imagined a vast solitude of the land with a single oak tree. A beam is captured as it hits the tree and the lights of the stage around him. The bolt that illuminates the tree leaves above and behind the same time. The sky is dark storm clouds at sunset.
Photographing oak
There are oak trees, many near my home in Marin County across the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. I explored a nearby open space and a tree of oak that was suited to my needs. I have photographed before noon with a backlit light. At that time, I was still using film and the image captured with a Hasselblad medium format camera with Kodak Ektachrome film. Because the slope of the land could not get the whole tree in, despite my wide-angle, unless the product is put in a diagonal angle. At the same place I found and photographed an area of open ground to the tip of wild oats. In my files I found a picture of a cloudy sky and fired at the distant mountains of low to Santa Fe, New Mexico, with a dirt road winding through the composition.
Make an image of a ray
During a trip last winter to the Ladakh region of Kashmir, often called "the Little Tibet "I have my sight. For a long time after sunset and suffered so much by altitude sickness and one case of aggravated by the fireplace extreme cold in my room without heating. A flash of light illuminated the room and witness the thundering excitement of the immediate vicinity of the strike. Being as how I had never been fired by lightning (it is rare that we get a glimpse into the bay from San Francisco), I managed to crawl under the covers and facing my camera. With his head spinning my fitness stunned me pushed a roll of film in my F100, stabilized on the edge of the window, open the shutter and waited. Boom! Another flash. Repeat the process until I had killed then a roll, shake, back in my crib. As a photographer values using Photoshop to compose many of my images together, I 'm always on the lookout for items you can use in my compositions actions. This effort has finally paid off, I thought, As I scanned two of lightning shoot this picture. I did scans with my ScanMate 5000 drum scanner and scan images of 100 megabytes each.
Using Adobe Photoshop to combine the images in a photo
I started riding image using a mask layer together to paint landscapes and images of clouds. I merged the layers, duplicate the layer again, light curves with a adaptation layer, and then used the layer mask to paint the area to be "enlightened" by lightning. The tree was selected using the palette, magic wand and lasso tools in conjunction with alpha channels. Make a selection from a tree with thousands of leaves is a challenge and in this case requires not only above the sequence of operations, but time is also significant increase of 100% by hand, using Lasso tool, the "clean" even more than the selection of trees. With the selected tree, I copied and pasted into the background. I duplicate the layer tree on two occasions, one with dark corners and mitigate the other. Then I used the layer masking to create the effect of light and dark areas, where lightning illuminates the leaves closest to the beam. Finally, I brought the beam itself, the hit and then set the layer mode to "clarify" only. By setting the mode to "clarify" the pixels of the image rays are lighter the pixels behind the rest of the image becomes the only visible … There was therefore no need to "strip" the background is dark ray (I used curves to darken the image enough to remove all but the beam itself). I used the brush to clear "refine" the trajectory of the projectile.
An image of art or timeless image bank
Ultimately not only a beautiful image, but an array of conceptual values which can be used to illustrate a series of marketing concepts. The image is exactly the kind of image you try to create dramatic, meaningful and timeless.
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