A Waste of time? Or worth the effort?- You decide
Welcome to my first blog!
As my photoshop skills have improved over the last year, it made me wonder about revisiting those shots that were never quite there & just archived as records of the day(Digital mining as its now called)…..One such case happened recently towards the end of 2008 with Don Bishop when photographing 6024 on the Yuletide Torbay express.
I decided to see how far i could push the raw file to get something worth putting on the web site………it involved the usual improvements i use now, just more aggressive. I whacked it into Mono as well, the light was so low and diffused there was little alternative but to use shape & form instead of colour. And the end result ???
Why dont you decide!……
Have a look and leave me a post.
Very good Jonathan – website & pics.
Notice some don’t have copywrite labels but impressed that you can’t right click & copy.
Can people buy pics digitally or prints?
This should keep you busy !!
Please change the i’s to I’s !!
Hi Phil,
Thanks for the comments. The whole website thing has been buzzing in my head for ages now. Alot of the new tenchniques im learning are from a guy whos been “coaching me” on train photography but add an “arty” dimension to it when the light fails. Many guys will pack up and go home but i love the diffused light you get it allows you to play with mono shots and use shape & form instead of colour…Alot of the effects are done in photoshop but i go to the railways now with things buzzing in my head, that i want rather than just going for the day out! Im realy pleased with the images to date, ive got hundreds to do if i include the wildlife aswell……..
The website itself is based on wordpress and the theme was a free download, but i have found that due to poor compliance in the code that the front page image becomes a little confused when its viewed with other browsers…I have used IE7…There seems to be poor control in code writing etc. So ive found some themes that are more w3c and im about to load them in to have a preview on how they will improve the robustness to these other browsers.
Theres a clever script that disables the right click function (again Mike has helped me there) The missed water mark was a error by me, its the last task i do in photoshop before i upload them. i must ammend that cheers for reminding me! The image size’s are small just 650 or 450 pix depending on orientation. This limits the images to postcard size…
I haven’t even thought about offering them for sale but i know poeple who do…..
Thanks for the + comments. Pass it on if you others who might be interested.
Jon.