April 3, 2015 | 13 Comments

One Photo Focus – April 3, 2015

Image contributed by Cee Neuner – Edited by KCinAZ

Cee Neuner gave me a huge challenge on how to approach the image. Huge in a way that means I had no idea where to start. I liked it a lot already in full color but since I’ve been wanting to do something with B&W and decided to give it a try with this one. As usual, I am was still second guessing myself as I sent the image to Stacy at Visual Venturing for April’s One Photo Focus. I started with Cee’s raw image in Lightroom to begin my editing. First the image was converted to B&W and then a temperature adjustment of Creamtone along with playing around with the basics until I was happy. Definition of happy is that I didn’t start over.

Then the image was moved into Photoshop where some coloring was done. Colorizing was not completely necessary but I’ve seen B&W work where some objects have been colorized and wanted to try my hand at it. A yellow cast with a low opacity was added to the windows. I started the windows over a couple of times until I found the right method. First I used a paint brush and it had a streaked look. Lastly I used the paint bucket with a low opacity.

Then the grass and vegetation was colorized with a low opacity green using the same method. Then I noticed what might be a wreath on the door and colorized it as well with standard green and red. I purposely left the main tree alone. Go figure? Well, there you have it. Thanks, Cee for such a great image and for helping me step outside the box. To see what others have been up to with Cee’s image go to Visual Venturing.

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Author:kcinaz

Lets talk about the two sides of me. I am a Gemini just so you know. The first side of me is the cooking and entertaining part. This is a major part of my life and I wouldn't be fulfilled without it. Of course, we all have to eat, but the main part of cooking for me is entertaining and sharing fun and flavorful foods with great friends. Dinner parties, happy hours and well, most anything to do with food is where I begin to enjoy. My other side, the artsy side is a craving for art, painting and photography. Maybe this is my Gemini left side of the brain?? Since starting to write a Blog I've picked back up what hubby calls my big ass camera and started carting it around again. He’s always afraid I will ask him to carry it. I keep thinking that when I retire (?#&*!!!) that I will have time to read all the photography books in my library and become a superb photographer. Wishful thinking.

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13 Comments on “One Photo Focus – April 3, 2015”

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Snow's Fissures and Fractures

April 9, 2015 at 5:52 am #

Very nice edit, I like the paleness of the image, even the greens are subdued.

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  kcinaz
  
  April 9, 2015 at 10:27 am #
  
  Thanks. It was a fun challenge.
  
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Nic

April 8, 2015 at 11:15 am #

I like the hyper-white that you have brought out in this image. I don’t know if it was the creamtone or if it’s the touch of color, but either way it is really neat. It looks like you had fun creating this. 😀

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  kcinaz
  
  April 8, 2015 at 12:36 pm #
  
  Thanks Nic. It was fun and a bit on the learning curve too.
  
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Stacy P. Fischer

April 5, 2015 at 8:02 pm #

Fun, subtle selective coloring, Karen (though the more saturated green on the wreath certainly does pull my eye in – makes me think of Christmas 😀). Glad you had fun trying out a new method. As always, thanks for taking part!

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  kcinaz
  
  April 8, 2015 at 12:36 pm #
  
  Thanks, Stacy. It was a fun one.
  
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Cee Neuner

April 3, 2015 at 7:46 am #

Wonderful job of editing. I like that the arbor was in black and white and you emphasized the house with slight color. It really made the rest of the photo details pop. I might have to keep that in mind.

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  kcinaz
  
  April 3, 2015 at 8:30 am #
  
  Thanks Cee. I wasn’t sure about it but wanted to be outside the box for a change.
  
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    Cee Neuner
    
    April 3, 2015 at 8:59 am #
    
    I like your out of the box thinking.
    
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Mary

April 3, 2015 at 7:31 am #

I love how subtle you were with coloring, very nice.

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Ben Rowe Aperturef64

April 3, 2015 at 5:41 am #

I like how you contrasted the soft tones and the green. I perhaps want more green on the tree but then I also like it slightly pale. Nice edit.

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  kcinaz
  
  April 5, 2015 at 3:54 pm #
  
  No green in the arbor tree. I thought about it and then left it B&W so that it stood out. Maybe some soft green there would have been nice too.
  
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[…] Karen says: Cee Neuner gave me a huge challenge on how to approach the image. I liked it a lot already in full color but since I’ve been wanting to do something with B&W, I decided to give it a try with this one. As usual, I was still second guessing myself as I sent the image to Stacy at Visual Venturing for April’s One Photo Focus. I started with Cee’s raw image in Lightroom to begin my editing. First the image was converted to B&W and then a temperature adjustment of Creamtone along with playing around with the basics until I was happy. Definition of happy is that I didn’t start over. Then into Photoshop where some coloring was done. A yellow cast with a low opacity was added to the windows. Then the grass and vegetation was colorized with a low opacity green. Then I noticed what might be a wreath on the door and colorized it as well with standard green and red. I purposely left the main tree alone. Go figure? Well, there you have it. Thanks, Cee, for such a great image and for helping me step outside the box. To read more detail visit KCinAZ. […]

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