Downs Park Shoreline (rip
rap) with fishing pier in the distance.
I felt the composition needed
more balance as well as interest, so I added a gradient blue to the blank
horizon sky, as well as the three flying gulls. The details of the W1 were
pretty weak, so I tried the HDR toning feature to bring out more details in the
rocks. This helped quite a bit to bring more life into the
image.
Tip: (Working with an alilgned side-by-side crossview
of the image)... To add objects In Photoshop to a 3D X-View stereo such
as the birds in this image, I first added a layer (per bird) in Photoshop
(working with a lossless copy of the image such as BMP format), then added
the Photoshop bird "paintbrush" (free download from the internet). Before
adding each bird however, I used the tools in PS to orientate the bird in the
direction I wanted as well as the size and shade. Keeping the size of the
birds small in this composition allows less concern for depth and details of the
individual object. Because the objects are back-lit, that is also less
concern for individual details of the objects.
Once I have the
bird object in the layer, I duplicated the layer so that I could hold the shift
key down and drag the object horizontally from the left to the right
image. Holding the Shift Key down while dragging prevents the object
position from moving vertically resulting in a vertical misalignment.
While dragging the bird on the right image I cross my eyes so that I can sense
the depth of the bird in the scene. If I add a bird which I want to be
further away, I make the size of the object smaller and drag it until the depth
is a bit further away than the larger/nearer bird added before.
If the
birds were large, resulting in close proximity of the virtual foreground, I
would have to do much more tricky artwork to create a more detailed version of
the object for realism. Much of that may depend on your skill with
digitally painting, etc. It's more rare to find a Photoshop Paintbrush
download of an object (such as the bird) that has nice details (especially a
free download). You could however use a bird that you photographed then
cut and paste. You would need to be concerned with how the object was lit,
edges, etc. to provide a realistic view, otherwise the scene will look
fake.
W1, SPM, PS-CS6, IrfanView, Noisefilter,
HDR toning, Photoshop bird paintbrushes.
Cheers,
Brian
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