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 Andy "Not Dice" Dice
  
Location: We can live in dumpsters if we have to, MA
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 |  |  |  | Remember when I came up with a fun new postprocess?
< on 6/9/2006 5:19 AM >
|  | | | This was all shot on Walgreens 400 speed with some kind of freakin' Canon fully-auto camera (but with manual focus) I borrowed from a friend with the ISO set to 200 which was a mistake but I actually decided that it was a good thing since the camera was fully auto and that I usually like to stop up once or twice from what my light meter tells me (depending on the situation).
Anywho, and then last time I had a set of photos I was playing around with this digital postprocess that I stumbled across while softfocusing, but it didn't really complement any of the photos from that particular set, so I didn't use it. It did, however, this time. I'm interested in critiques on both the what I'm calling "selective softfocus" (even though it's a little bit more complicated than that) as well as the photos in general.
The colors are pretty much unmessedaroundwith save for cutting the levels a bit. #5 was edited a bit to de-tungsten-ify the lighting a tad.
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Shai Hulud
  
Location: Evansville IN
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| | Re: Remember when I came up with a fun new postprocess?
<Reply # 1 on 6/9/2006 7:16 AM >
| | | | I won't pretend that I have the technical capability to critique the method you're using, but I like the effect it creates. On the other hand, it seems like something that could only work for some pictures.
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nutekk
   
Location: Central NJ
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| | | Re: Remember when I came up with a fun new postprocess?
<Reply # 2 on 6/9/2006 11:52 AM >
| | | | Posted by Shai Hulud
I won't pretend that I have the technical capability to critique the method you're using, but I like the effect it creates. On the other hand, it seems like something that could only work for some pictures.
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i have to agree, i'm not as experienced with development process, but some of the shots really stand out more than others, while few appear a bit grainy, almost as if the film speed was increased over 400. that last shot is my fav and i'd hang that on my wall !
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lasthourstand
Location: Syracuse, NY
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| | | | Re: Remember when I came up with a fun new postprocess?
<Reply # 3 on 6/9/2006 12:47 PM >
| | | | I think the selective soft focus works really well on 1, 6, and 8. But the rest just look like they were out of focus and it doesn't really work for me.
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desmet
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| | | | Re: Remember when I came up with a fun new postprocess?
<Reply # 4 on 6/9/2006 1:55 PM >
| | | | 1, 6, and 8 work pretty well.
Interesting idea, but I didn't totally grok what you're talking about. So you're just selectively adding blur? It's not entirely unlike the Gaussain blur and hard light/overlay technique....
http://www.desolat...ectric_neon_h.html
http://www.desolat...06/05/warming.html
...but just more selective and without changing the saturation of the majority of the picture.
Interesting!
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greenmnkey
Location: Cleveland
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Remember when I came up with a fun new postprocess?
<Reply # 5 on 6/9/2006 3:36 PM >
| | | | one and eight, the rest look too blurry for its own good
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Starman
Location: Brooklyn, New York
Gender: Male
| | Re: Remember when I came up with a fun new postprocess?
<Reply # 6 on 6/9/2006 4:46 PM >
| | | | Fantastic.
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| | | | Re: Remember when I came up with a fun new postprocess?
<Reply # 7 on 6/9/2006 5:56 PM >
| | | | I dont know what to say about these pictures .. as far as photography goes these are They arnt the most colorfull and have the best composition but they have a very unique style and i cant stop looking at them i am IN LOVE with them and the place you took them GREAT work !
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Mr. Motts
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Location: Long Island and Brooklyn NY
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| | | Re: Remember when I came up with a fun new postprocess?
<Reply # 8 on 6/9/2006 6:04 PM >
| | | | Pretty neat, it works nicely in some. Watch the grain though, when you blur in post it removes the noise/grain in the photos so you can tell which parts are blurred on the computer, it is the most apparent in #6.
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DelbertGrady
Location: Northeast PA
Gender: Male
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| | | Re: Remember when I came up with a fun new postprocess?
<Reply # 9 on 6/9/2006 6:41 PM >
| | | | Looks like that new fandangled fully auto/manual focus camera worked out quite well.
1. I like this one. The angle works well for me.
2. I think fully focusing this one would have been better.
3. The texture of the emergency light would have stood out quite nicely if this was fully focused I think. Too much noise too.
4. Very nice.
5. Very nice again.
6. No comment either way.
7. Very good choice for the selective blurring.
8. Good shot.
I think the selective focusing is a very interesting idea. It's definitely not seen very often in UE photography.
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Andy "Not Dice" Dice
Location: We can live in dumpsters if we have to, MA
Gender: Male
UE'ing is for pussies, bro.
| | | | Re: Remember when I came up with a fun new postprocess?
<Reply # 10 on 6/9/2006 9:58 PM >
| | | | Posted by desmet
1, 6, and 8 work pretty well.
Interesting idea, but I didn't totally grok what you're talking about. So you're just selectively adding blur? It's not entirely unlike the Gaussain blur and hard light/overlay technique....
http://www.desolat...ectric_neon_h.html
http://www.desolat...06/05/warming.html
...but just more selective and without changing the saturation of the majority of the picture.
Interesting!
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It's a duplicated layer with guassian blur applied. The blurred layer is set to "lighten only" (photoshop may have a fancier term but that's what it's called in Gimp), and then you fuck with the value curve in only the guassian layer to achieve the "selectivity." Basically, you can blur only the shadows, only the midtones, or only the highlightes, depending on what you want to achieve.
It's especially interesting in places with a lot of shiny things, example from the photo I "discovered" it on from Met:
All those white shiny highlightes in the water were just your ordinary everyday tiles, but then when the lighten only from the reflection spilled over from the blur, their value basically REVERSED, going from darker than the water to SPARKLING. It's different, anyway, and fun to mess with.
I agree with what people have said that a lot of these photos I posted don't necessarily benefit from it. Thank you all for your words of wisdom!
It was 400 speed film, and I don't know how the grain got so intense. Maybe there really IS a difference between Walgreens and namebrand film hahaha. I also think that Walgreens's digital scans add grain way more than most other places when they compress the images to .jpg, 'cause my prints aren't nearly that terrifying.
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43rdstreet
Location: Bowmanville, Ontario
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Remember when I came up with a fun new postprocess?
<Reply # 11 on 6/9/2006 11:48 PM >
| | | | I have to second previous post's, I really enjoyed this work, it's unique.
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erin (with an e)
Location: New York City
Gender: Female
| | | Re: Remember when I came up with a fun new postprocess?
<Reply # 12 on 6/10/2006 3:23 PM >
| | | | The one of the Metro cafe is beautiful, as well as 4,6 and especially 8. I agree that the other just look out of focus, the one of the surgery light in particular. But overall, these are great, and definitely a good example of tasteful postprocessing.
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gutfree
| | Re: Remember when I came up with a fun new postprocess?
<Reply # 13 on 6/10/2006 3:40 PM >
| | | | 1, 6 and 8 seem to work best. i agree that this is a technique that only works for certain photos. keep working with it though.
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