ReWorking the Tower

01 Friday Mar 2013

Posted by Leanne Cole in Melbourne, Photography, Reworks

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Architecture, art deco, Australia, Blurring, HDR, images, layers, Manchester Unity Building, Melbourne, Melbourne Architecture, Melbourne Heritage, Neo gothic, photography, Photos, processing, reworking, Smile Solutions, Tower

So it isn’t technically a rework, though it is yet another version of the tower from the Manchester Unity Building. It has been a long road with this particular image. Well, long hours. Here, take a look.

There are so many layers that it must be a massive file. I should take a look to see.

Last week when I went back in I took many images of the tower, from different places on the 12th floor and at different angles. It was another crap day as far as the weather went, and I really didn’t think I was going to get any good images (you can see the original image below). I felt that to do the tower justice, then I needed to capture the arms as well. The last image I did, was a little disappointing because you couldn’t really see them. I tried to emphasise them in this image. I stretched the bottom out a little.

I have spent about 20 hours, give or take one or two, on this image. I have done many, many layers of blurring, masking, and peeling back. I have never spent that long on one image before and it was an interesting experience. I don’t know that I could do it for all images, but I was trying out something with the blurring, and I like how it turned out. I will have to make notes so I know exactly what I did.

Is it wrong to be fixated by my own work? There is something about this image that I find I can’t draw my eyes away from. I like it so much, I think I might make it my header image for the blog.

Speaking of the blog, perhaps I should update what is happening. I have both blogs, the original one hosted by WordPress and my self hosted blog. I was just putting updates on the original with the full post on the new, but I noticed that no one, well only a few were coming to the new one. It all seemed to be falling apart, so I have started doing the full post on both. There are good reasons, though time wise, it doesn’t really make that much difference. I do the post on one blog, then cut and paste it into the other, so easy. I have far more followers on the original, and very few on the new one, and the reasons for starting the new haven’t really worked the way I hoped. No big deal.

I am off to Eltham tomorrow morning to teach my first class for the year. It has been popular, so it is full, with a waiting list, and many others turned away. I hope it works out well. The class is all about learning to use your DSLR, so should be fun.

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18 Friday Jan 2013

Posted by Leanne Cole in Photography, Reworks

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Awards, Blurring, grapes, images, photography, reworking, still life, Traditions, wine

Last night I stayed up late to work on an image to show today. I knew that I wasn’t going to have much time to do it today as I was off to the city this morning with Klara. We went on a tour of the Melbourne Town Hall and then off to the Aquarium. I really wanted to do the tour and the bribe to get Klara to go was the Aquarium. I am hoping that I might be allowed to get back into the Town Hall to take some shots. So I found an image I could use that I could rework for todays post.

This image was first shown to you in March in a post called Processes and Traditions. This was when I wasn’t doing so great with the HDR processing and was still finding my way around the software. I have learned a thing or two since then.

As I said, last night I worked on an image. I was worried that when I looked at it today that it would look bad. It doesn’t, but then I realised there was another major problem with it.

Can you tell the difference? I did the wrong photo. Can you believe it?

I could go and redo it, but to be honest, right now I am too tired. I am hoping you can tell what I have done differently to the first one. Look beyond the fact that the image is different.

I tried to bring out the textures a lot more. I have also done a lot more blurring than what I was doing in the past. I made the background much darker. I did lose the wine bottle, but I don’t think that matters. I love how the crystal glass comes out.

I was allowed to take some photos today of the inside of the Town Hall, but they aren’t great, you really need a tripod to take the photos. I will show you some from there and the Aquarium in the next few days.