Jody Coker
About the Image(s)
Well this months image started out as a photo of a 1956 Cadillac Couple De Ville and a photo of my eye.
I do all of my post work with Affinity Photo on a MacBook Pro laptop so the terms maybe a bit different from those in PS. I started with the raw caddy image and did the basic edits for noise, sharpness and a little bit of color. Once that was done I brought it into the photo persona of Affinity, think of that more or less as Lightroom. Where I ran several filters to highlight the lines and edges and to change the color balance and saturation levels, I also ran a HDR color map. Mostly it was a let's try this kind if deal.
The eye was the hard part, I mean have you ever tried photographing your own eye? After taking a bunch of photos and not being happy with any of them, I cornered my son with the intent of using his eye, but he didn’t like looking into the bright light needed to make the the pupil small. I was looking for a lot of iris, so we settled on him taking some shots of my eye. The eye photo I settled on had good sharpens, but the top of my eye had a lot of reflections that I found distracting. This was taken care of by mirroring the bottom half and rotating it to the top half. With the iris and pupil looking good I created a new masked layer of the the center of the eye and added the to the caddy image. A little adjustment for size and opacity so it fit over the original headlight and some of the hight detail of the light was visible. Lastly was a spherical distortion filter to the eye to make it a little bulbous looking.
Just for grins I had it judged at this months club meeting, ended up with a 12.5.
This round’s discussion is now closed!
8 comments posted
  Posted: 07/07/2021 19:38:29
  Posted: 07/08/2021 12:33:30
I love rust and texture. This is a great old car well captured The colors are lovely. I like both the original crop and your last crop The eye you wound up with is compelling and beautiful Perhaps you could add a catchlight in the upper right and and lighten the iris on the lower left. But without the catchlight it is great and a catchlight might lessen the abstract quality   Posted: 07/08/2021 20:13:09
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