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toy camera experiment


toy camera experiment
Photo Information
Copyright: Gabriel TL (GabesterTL) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 355 W: 121 N: 111] (394)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2005-07-29
Categories: Experimental, Mood, HPP [Heavily Post-Processed]
Camera: Sony DSC F828 Cybershot, Carl Zeiss T* 28-200, CCD 8M 2/3" RGBE
Exposure: f/8, 1/8 seconds
Details: Tripod: Yes
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Theme(s): Textures, Chess and Checkers [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2005-07-29 3:00
Viewed: 1286
Favorites: 6 [view]
Points: 32
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
[Description/Condition]
From wikipedia.org: "Toy cameras are inexpensive cameras made almost entirely out of plastic, including the lens. The Diana, LOMO and Holga are typically the cameras most associated with the term."

Just a little experiment to see if I could recreate, using photoshop, a picture simular to one shot with a toy camera.

I set the pieces on the board and placed a desk lamp directly over the king to get the desired highlights.

[Digital Spiel]
- Cropped the horizontal format considerably.
- Extended the canvas to recreate a vertical format.
- Used the clone tool and the healing brush to blend the background into the extended canvas.

Color conversion:
- Converted to Lab Color mode.
- Deleted the channel a.
- Deleted the channel alpha 2.
- Converted back to Grayscale mode.
- Converted to RGB color mode.
- Duplicated the layer and inversed the colors in the original one.
- Changed the blending mode on the new layer to Linear Light and used the dodge tool on the highlights.
- Resized to fit TL using the Bicubic Sharper resample method.
- Created a curves adjustment layer and tweeked the Red and Blue channel (leaving the green one as is.
- Created a blue color fill layer adjustment on soft light blending mode.
- Created a new empty layer and copy-merged all the previous layers into it (CTRL-SHIFT-ALT-E for Windows).

Modification layers from bottom to top:
- Other/High Pass layer on soft light blending mode.
- Grain layer. Intensity: 27, Type: Enlarged, multiply blending.
- 2 Edge darkening layers. A circular transparent-to-black gradient was used. On layer at 15% opacity the other at 60%.
- 2 Center Lighting layers. A circular white-to-transparent gradient was used. On layer at 4% opacity the other at 15% (on overlay blending mode).
- Created the ragged frame with a soft brush.
- Levels adjustement layer.
- Hue/Saturation adjustement layer at 33% opacity (Hue: 24, Saturation: 40).
rghattam, Ah_Thong, brzuchma, drum, cloverstar, Dingo, letr, ernanysiregar, torr, ronrag, legendary_lou, just-g has marked this note useful
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Bravo! Now that's a great note. Thanks for all the detail. The shot looks great. The DOF, sharpness and grain are excellent. Your POV is good. Very nicely composed too. TFS.

Ravi.

very details notes..thanks for sharing that.. very interesting photo too... great composition..great lighting..great mood! i like this one!! lomography!! i hope to buy one too..soon!! nice day
-thong-

great one!!

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  • drum Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor [C: 119 W: 45 N: 22] (625)
  • [2005-07-29 5:57]

great photo
very well done
excellent note
thanks for sharing

Great photo.

Wow Gabe. There's a lot of intricate steps you did to create the effect of the toy camera. (I see they named one after me). The lighting on the chess set is very well done. Very subtle too. Just enough probably to re-create the effect from using a toy camera. Thanks for including the extensive details on your note. How do know Photoshop so well. Did you take a course, or read the manual very well. I'd like to take a course if there is one available, but haven't looked yet.
Great experiment that worked out extremely well.

You did it with a cheap camera? But you forgot to change the camera im the details I don't consider Carl Zeiss doing plastic lens :o)

Well you did a lot of manipulations to make it to your taste! Great one! classic view well make! THe condition lights seems very good!
Great work!

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  • Dingo Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3255 W: 375 N: 2711] (11640)
  • [2005-07-29 18:22]
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Mmmm... you have a fine camera, set up a nice classical situation, you take a shot and then go through a lot of trouble to deteriorate the quality of the shot. Mmmm. I simply would have used a cheap camera to start with Gabe, that would have been a whole lot easier LOL.
Okay, seriously now: I like the set-up and the light, but I don't care for the effects. I do admire your PP skills though, well, I said it before: you're TL's own private PS guru ;o).
TFS

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  • letr Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1352 W: 439 N: 1185] (6625)
  • [2005-08-01 4:50]
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think the pov is very well chosen to create depth here, but i'm not sure about the black vignettting, nice experiment though

very nice DOF and composition Gabriel :)
i like the idea you got there, good PP work and note :)
thanks for sharing

Tres belle prise Gabriel, tres impressionnant cette prise de vue, le controle de la lumiere est parfait.
Amities
Guy

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  • wayne Gold Star Critiquer [C: 316 W: 0 N: 0] (0)
  • [2005-08-05 22:16]

Very cool! There's a real feeling here that this is more than just a game. The bugs eye view was a good choice. Composition is just okay for me.

I know you were just experimenting here, but I think the white pieces would have given more impact. Another idea is to get to make a composition out of white and black pieces.

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  • torr Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 512 W: 55 N: 81] (1669)
  • [2005-08-20 18:01]

Amasing technic.
Love to see more of it.
Looks new to me.
Congrat.
T
!

Very nice done.
I like it (put in my favourites)
Congratulations Gabriel

unbelievable good idea and composition...

the picture is awesome...

Great great!

Szymon

Excellent picture!
I love the fade, the lightning effect.
Nice texture, nice angle...
PERFECT!!

Roberto Juarez!

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