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Sorry about the rather random title.
Yosemite National Park, California. I submitted this for the black & white contest at ; this contest is now over.
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EDIT 4/9/2012: Updated with a slightly brighter and more contrasted version. (:
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Agreed! I hope you get to go there again D:
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Thanks! (:
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An amazing B&W photowork. I love the subject and the way you turned it into a beautiful image. Ansel Adams inspired, indeed.
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Thanks, and I agree (:
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I like that this photo has a solemn tone despite being of a waterfall. My only suggestion would be increasing the contrast, but I'm a huge contrast whore. I increase the shit out of the contrast on almost all of my photos.
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Thank you. Hmm, yeah, maybe that would have helped; I was afraid I'd overdo it and end up losing some of the details or making parts of the photo too white. Contrast really can make photos look stunning, but I never know how much to put. XD
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I usually just crank it all the way up, and if it looks too eye-paining or if some details I wanted to keep get washed out, then I try different levels.
If it washes out details you don't like, you can always increase the contrast of a certain area instead of the whole image. I do that sometimes.
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Ah, I see. Hmm, then do you use layers and masks to do that? o:
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Rarely, actually. I usually just freehand with the dodge or burn tools. And I keep my hand on ctrl+z in case I dodge/burn too much, or in an area I didn't want to. That's a good way to balance the bright and dark areas in an image.
The cases where I'd make a selection and copy it to a new layer is if I wanted separate sets of effects on different areas of the image. With [link] I made the background separate from the subject because I wanted the background to be really warped and have bizarre colors, whereas I wanted the subject to have some resemblance of reality.
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Do you/did you ever play World of Warcraft? I like the title by the way, I think it suits the image.
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Nope, though I think I tried Warcraft: Orcs and Humans many years ago. And thank you (:
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Ah, okay. It's just that the name was used in a World of Warcraft raid a couple of years ago...
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Thanks. Yeah, it's a really beautiful park (:
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Yep, very reminescent of Ansel Adams. Very beautiful photograph.
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Thank you, I'm glad you like it (:
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I certainly hope so. Thanks (:
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It's kinda like an edgy version of Ansel Adams, I love it!
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Thanks, I'm glad you do
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This has the spirit of Ansel Adams about it. Nice work
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Thank you, I hope I managed to capture that (:
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