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Let It Snow (technique)


Let It Snow (technique)
Photo Information
Copyright: Dan Bachmann (danbachmann) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 93 W: 15 N: 65] (555)
Genre: People
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2005-01-30
Categories: Friends/Family, Experimental, HPP [Heavily Post-Processed]
Camera: Pentax *istD, Tamron SP 90mm f2.8, @ ISO 200
Exposure: f/2.8, 1/60 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2005-02-04 16:50
Viewed: 2096
Points: 14
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
I've been hoping to photograph snow this year, but I haven't seen a single flake. This would not have been the case here in Southern England a decade a ago. Today, it has snowed, but only indoors with some computer editing.

technique used here:

Asked models to look cold
Load image - sight white balance to a slightly more blue cast if you have the option
darken the background a little
Do a replace color on areas that would work as snow (I used the moss on the wall here)
Create a layer for snow by doing an add noise on a black layer (this will be the background snow falling)
apply motion blur
desaturate the layer
set overlay mode to screen
repeat layers above two or three more times, but scale up the layers 200% and 500% before doing the motion blur. This will be falling snow closer to the camera.
on all but the layer with the most magnification, remove the snow from the objects in the foreground (in this case, part of the fence and the girls)

note: With only 256mb of RAM, my computer took quite awhile to do this due to massive amounts of swapping and it aborted trying some other effects due to a complete lack of memory. I think the problem is with doing scaling on layers, but I'm not sure.
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What wonderful post processing on this image Dan. You are so lucky that you haven't seen snow yet! We've had our fair share here in Canada! The pose that the girls have is perfect! They definitely look cold! My only suggestion would be to explain how you got achieved this look in your post processing, so that the others looking at this can learn!
:)

Wow, great work. How did you get the snow to look so real.

Illusion is not bad! But why didn't asm me for the snow.... I can send you snow by postal way... If it is... i hope you are not like this liar who told me, i send him water... I told him twice it was snow i put in the box...

Amazing pp work. How did you manage it?? Well done.

Peter

Thanks for the tutorial. i will keep this in mind and in my notes.

funny pic and great "real" ps!!!

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  • DAM Gold Star Critiquer [C: 513 W: 67 N: 268] (1110)
  • [2005-02-20 18:00]
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Dan, life is a bit funny... we that have so much snow in Canada wish we did not have any. And others that do not have such wish to have it at their doorstep. Becareful what you wish for?.... great workshop.

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  • zto Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 946 W: 120 N: 59] (262)
  • [2005-03-01 11:03]

Wow Dan, thanks for this tip. Loosk absolutly great.

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