----- Original Message -----

From: Duke

To: anaglyphs(-at-)yahoogroups.com

Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 9:15 PM

Subject: Re: [Anaglyphs] Composite Experiment - Duke

This arrangement works much better for me; I had actually thought of the idea of tieing them into a Cantina scheme before you posted this.  Now that you've made a strong connection between the elements in the picture, I'd like to make one more suggestion (if I may).  Take your present background and crop out the bottom and a portion of the left side (or simply use another shot of the building that favors the sign more).  Enlarge your crop to fill the frame (even if it loses resolution it probably wouldn't matter, you could even possibly use some intentional blur). The final result would be a portrait in which the women would be predominant, but still in their element, and the overall shot would have a much cleaner look as you would have eliminated the clutter.

 

Duke

 

 

 

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Brian Wallace <Starg82343(-at-)hotmail.com> wrote:

 

?

Ok...

 

For them personally, there is a connection to the water as they live next to each other on waterfront homes.  My thinking was that this type of background would be basically neutral for almost any portrait.  It's easy however to change the background which might be subjective as far as "meaning" to the individual viewing it or to the ladies themselves.

 

Here's a different background, busier but with a much more obvious relationship to the women, as this is where I photographed them.  They frequent the establishment and many friends connect them to this place as well.

 

Thanks for your opinion Duke,

Brian

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Duke

To: anaglyphs(-at-)yahoogroups.com

Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 5:42 PM

Subject: Re: [Anaglyphs] Composite Experiment

I like the technique, but, in my opinion, there's no obvious relationship between the women and the background scene.  I would pick a less busy background, the masts on the boats are a bit distracting. 

 

Duke

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Brian Wallace <Starg82343(-at-)hotmail.com> wrote:

 

Composite Overlay and Blending

 

In PS, I added a layer mask to a photo layer which resulted in this 3D composite of Kelly and her Mom that you saw previously, and a background shot of the sun-down light over White's cove from my yard in Pasadena MD.

 

I got the idea from the PSE-8 tutorials I recently provided a link to and just experimented with 3D images instead of 2D.

 

Both shots were done with the Fuji W1.

 

Cheers,

Brian

 

 

My Flickr page:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ur4chun8/
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Click on "+ ALL SIZES" (for larger view)

My photos according to "Interestingness"
http://fiveprime.org/hivemind/Tags/Brian,Wallace,3d

 

 

 

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My general photography on Flickr
http://tinyurl.com/mkkn6w

My 3D anaglyphs on Flickr
http://tinyurl.com/4827bx

My 3D cross-view pairs on Flickr
http://tinyurl.com/nngujc

Click on a thumbnail pic, then
Click on "all sizes" icon (for full size)

3D info: Canon A720 twin-rig, SDM, SPM, Photoshop.