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The White Tower & The Lonely Moon (16)
chiaraluna
![Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 435 W: 90 N: 567]](http://i1.treklens.com/misc/g-g-g.gif) (2560) | my spooky moon tower.. well.. after posting this i found that when viewed in the web browser the image was a bit distorted.. the orbital radiating circles of the omni light effect are very apparent wheras on the original image the glow is muted and blended and you can hardly see the circles.. so i was thinking to repost a 'clean' version.. i discovered that if i save the image in grayscale the banding of the light effect isn't visible on the web and it looks like the original.. however seeing as some of you seem to like the radiating circles from the moon i'll leave it as it is and post the 'web safe' version as a workshop here for you to see how i intended it to look :) i actually think the radiating rings are quite cool it's just annoying to see your original image and idea distorted this way.. so you can choose yourselves which you prefer!
the subject is the bell tower of the church next door to my house.. it's actually a very sweet looking red brick 19th century church so i never really expected something like this to come out of it! the day i took the photo i was feeling pretty sick so couldn't get the shots i wanted and came home really disappointed thinking there was nothing i could use.. there was one shot of the tower which was quite nice and made it look very different to it's usual rather 'chocolate box' prettiness but it wasn't quite right and the details seemed too dull.. so i resigned myself to not getting anything out of those photos and before closing the editor i casually inverted the tower as this is a technique that fascinates and appeals to me but with really no expectation of anything interesting happening.. but when i saw the negative image it was transformed! the detail in the architecture and brickwork which had seemed pretty dull suddenly leapt out at me and it was so dramatic and stylized it looked almost like a completely digitally generated image! i really loved the spooky gothic feel i got from it and was so pleased with this unexpected pleasant surprise :)
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the photo was shot in monotone on a dull overcast day, freehand & without flash
post processing:
only slightly cropped, resized, sharpened & inverted to the negative image
the slight streakiness in the sky caused by the resizing was blended and blurred manually
then a crescent moon was 'painted' in the upper left corner using a large diameter round brush painting first an off white circle, then using the eyedropper to choose the nearest dark sky colour around the moon and painting another equal sized circle overlapping the first to create the crescent moon.
a low intensity omni light effect was then added above the moon to create a lunar glow and illuminate part of the tower below while still keeping the all over dark feel
finally frame and signature were added
hope you'll like my spooky tower! |
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