A roof

[Hamish Gill]

I have stared at this for a few days on and off now, ive lost all sense of judgement about it so thought id post it see what other people thought of it

Lots of selective focusing in LR a split tone, than another low opacity brown layer added in photoshop ...
Just a bit of a imagination spillage i suppose

 

[Kev Pugh]

Hamish I like this, it has a TS feel to it almost

 

[Hamish Gill]

yeah... I want a ts
I like selective focus ...

 

[Hamish Gill]

Just added a b&w that for all my faffing with colours i prefer

 

[Kev Pugh]

Yep Me too now Often B&W gives something that colour just doesn't, Are we getting too used to having everything in colour do you think, odd question but I still remember z cars in B&W, and love Film Noir I even Paint in B&W at Times.......Perhaps I should post one

 

[Pete Askew]

I like the B&W one too. It has more instant appeal and concentrates the eye on the geometry of the roof and the areas of focus. But I wouldn't give up on the colour one. It is excellent but I think the sky draws the eye a bit. How about cropping most of the sky out?

 

[Kev Pugh]

I was going to add that Pete as an option but we are getting a bit of stick for Sq Crop......but I do think it would suit this image either colour or B&W

 

[Hamish Gill]

Square?

Yes Kev, post!
I know what you mean too ... Photography that looks less like real life ticks more of my boxes ...

 

[Kev Pugh]

Square But I was thinking of leaving in a tad of sky.....I'm being pickie now still like it though.........

I will post......

 

[Pete Askew]

Actually I wasn't thinking square either but it works well - what else am I going to say!! What do you think Hamish?

 

[Hamish Gill]

I'm set on the original image but in b&w I think
I'm thinking a series of b&w shots of Worcester might be on the cards!

 

[Kev Pugh]

Yep lets do it we could do a collaboration, there's enough of us........

Worcester at Christmas in B&W

 

[Paul Lange]

Pretty Top stuff Hamish. I quite like the original colour cropped just above the top of the roof access. I like the bottom as I think it makes a nice lead in.

 

[Brian Moore]

Love 'em both. I thought TS straight away.

 

[Chris Dodkin]

It's only a model.... well it looks like one

Avoid the square crop Hamish - it's so... square

 

[Hamish Gill]

Yep lets do it we could do a collaboration, there's enough of us........

Worcester at Christmas in B&W

Not a bad idea that!!

 

[Hamish Gill]

I did want to achive that model look to start with ... sort of inspired by Kevs hobby... but the other way around

but then i got a bit carried away with the colours etc

You can get that model look stronger by upping the colours a bit more, but it works better with more of a point of reference and from a higher angle

 

[Jim Kuo]

How do you do selective focus in LR? I looked but couldn't find such option?

 

[Pete Askew]

I suspect this was done in-camera Jim but you can achieve some control by adding a gradient in LR and using negative sharpness as the control.

 

[Jim Kuo]

Ah ic, so that's what it means...

I've never thought of using grad filter in LR that way, good trick!

Thanks Pete.