Peggy Nugent
July 2024 - Night Walk
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About the Image(s)
I started with the background swirled texture (a slow shutter speed shot), and applied a Hue/Saturation layer to change the color. I added the Aalborg music center shot above that in Vivid Light mode at 62%, with the foreground masked out. I selected the stacked discs and added that layer in Vivid Light at 70%. I reduced brightness of some areas at the top of the frame and applied a Topaz Glow filter at low opacity.
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13 comments posted
Hi Peggy, what a mixture of lovely pastels and geometry - you have made a futuristic "Wow" architecture square of your own. I love the reflections on the pavement, and I am trying to figure to what exactly makes this authentic feel of night lit by articial lights. The bright angel statue and the circular forms in the foreground draw my eye quite strongly, and I was thinking what the image would look like without the Orig. 2 component - the wonderful atmosphere and the Walker might come out more strongly? Posted: 07/08/2024 20:00:35
Thanks, Kirsti!
Yes, I agree that feature is sort of a distraction. I kept it in because I think it's really elegant, but it doesn't work as well as I hoped.
I'm going to take it out and see how that works, and also enhance the walker.
Thanks for your great suggestions! Posted: 07/19/2024 19:47:55
Yes, I agree that feature is sort of a distraction. I kept it in because I think it's really elegant, but it doesn't work as well as I hoped.
I'm going to take it out and see how that works, and also enhance the walker.
Thanks for your great suggestions! Posted: 07/19/2024 19:47:55
Maria's comment got me to re-read yours; I mentally skipped over the part about also removing the round forms. Hmmm...I'll give it a try. Posted: 07/19/2024 19:50:23
I tried it without the round objects and didn't like it as well, but I do like it without the addition to the staircase. I also tried it in b&w (see my reply to Maria for that). Posted: 07/25/2024 21:14:26
Hi Peggy, love this. The colours, the blending, the composition all come together. Taken with it as soon as I seen it. The only difficulty I have is the the person in the photo is not so obvious, considering the title is night walk.
May need darkened or contrast increased to make it stand out. On the other hand some artists do this deliberty to make the viewer search, I have seen this work many times.
Overall a real piece of artistry. Bruce. Posted: 07/11/2024 09:25:23
May need darkened or contrast increased to make it stand out. On the other hand some artists do this deliberty to make the viewer search, I have seen this work many times.
Overall a real piece of artistry. Bruce. Posted: 07/11/2024 09:25:23
Thank you very much, Bruce!
The person is on a layer with lowered opacity, so I have a lot of play in changing the look there. I'll give it a try.
Thanks for the suggestion! Posted: 07/19/2024 19:54:14
The person is on a layer with lowered opacity, so I have a lot of play in changing the look there. I'll give it a try.
Thanks for the suggestion! Posted: 07/19/2024 19:54:14
Hi Peggy, thank you very much for your detailed explanation of how you created this image. I really like the tones in this image, with golden hues complemented by purple tonalities. You captured the right portion of the building, with its shapes and forms, to make the background interesting and nicely illuminate by this iridescent light.
I have to agree with kirsti and her thoughts about whether the image needs the round forms from the Orig.2. Additionally, I agree with Bruce about human figure, which I found a bit lost in the frame. Maybe you can play with your composition by removing the discs and placing the human figure waking into the image and see if that works for you.
Posted: 07/13/2024 05:06:18
I have to agree with kirsti and her thoughts about whether the image needs the round forms from the Orig.2. Additionally, I agree with Bruce about human figure, which I found a bit lost in the frame. Maybe you can play with your composition by removing the discs and placing the human figure waking into the image and see if that works for you.
Posted: 07/13/2024 05:06:18
Thanks, Maria!
I'll give your suggestions a try, removing the second original and making the walker more prominent. That's not something I tried when assembling this image. I agree that having the person walk into the frame would make them a more important part of the image.
Thanks for giving this so much careful thought. Posted: 07/21/2024 15:50:30
I'll give your suggestions a try, removing the second original and making the walker more prominent. That's not something I tried when assembling this image. I agree that having the person walk into the frame would make them a more important part of the image.
Thanks for giving this so much careful thought. Posted: 07/21/2024 15:50:30
I tried it without the round objects and didn't like it as well, but I do like it without the addition to the staircase. (See reply to Kirsti, above). I also tried it in b&w, which I think I prefer. Posted: 07/25/2024 21:15:56
The comments above are quite thorough. There's little to add except that with the pastel colors and your architectural design Disney might consider creating an immersion environment around your idea. Posted: 07/15/2024 13:08:26
Thanks, Alan. The original Disneyland was a favorite place of mine; I'm happy this suggests that sort of feeling. Posted: 07/21/2024 15:54:05
Peggy, This is my third time trying to comment after a glitch on the server. I was in Bruce's camp with a desire to bring the subject more attention otherwise it works for me. Posted: 07/20/2024 00:50:00
I'm sorry you had so much trouble posting, Brad. I know there have been problems with the server here.
Thanks for your comment; I'm going to play with the prominence of the walker. I had been ambivalent about having a person in there at all and I may have gone too far in minimizing their presence. Posted: 07/21/2024 15:59:21
Thanks for your comment; I'm going to play with the prominence of the walker. I had been ambivalent about having a person in there at all and I may have gone too far in minimizing their presence. Posted: 07/21/2024 15:59:21