The Rose

Gallery: Photo ArtPosted November 3, 20072,428 views15 comments

Shot this sandstone formation and although it was cool, I felt it needed something more...so I selected the red rock in the center, made a layer out of it, then did a B&W conv on the rest of the rock (which was yellowish).
CS3 is great because now they let you convert individual layers to B&W, where as before...you couldn't. You had to make a seperate image, then paste them together.

Comments

15 comments

Comment posted by Dena Sanders on November 3, 2007 at 2:17 PM

Very creative! It makes you stop and look and love the tones you chose.

Registered on May 30, 2007, 5 Posts, 61 Comments

Comment posted by Massimo Cristaldi on November 3, 2007 at 2:18 PM

Very nice. I would crop the top part of the image.... I distracts me a bit.

Registered on July 25, 2006, 122 Posts, 296 Comments

Comment posted by David Weber on November 3, 2007 at 3:09 PM

Beautifully done rick!

Registered on February 7, 2005, 296 Posts, 2737 Comments

Comment posted by Mitch Erwin on November 4, 2007 at 1:23 AM

Rick,

This one really pops! The crop suggestion at the top. I could live with or without it! Stupendous job!

Registered on April 24, 2006, 98 Posts, 656 Comments

Comment posted by Mike Moats on November 4, 2007 at 6:50 AM

Hey Rick, very cool image.

Registered on October 20, 2004, 892 Posts, 6324 Comments

Comment posted by Anil Rao on November 5, 2007 at 1:45 AM

Hi Rick,

This one really gets my interest. It is quite different from the norm and yet is some simple in concept. Wonderful work!

Registered on November 15, 2003, 234 Posts, 4923 Comments

Comment posted by Stan Rose on November 5, 2007 at 3:12 AM

Really does look like a rose--great eye to see that! I really like this shot, I might be tempted to go a little further and boost the red in the rock. (then i might go nuts, start copying like mad, make a whole field of roses some blue some black

) Aint PS fun!

Registered on September 15, 2005, 836 Posts, 17099 Comments

Comment posted by Mike Sellers on November 6, 2007 at 6:07 AM

I like the composition and the work you did in PS really makes this image appealing.

Registered on May 25, 2007, 32 Posts, 64 Comments

Comment posted by Roberta Olenick on November 6, 2007 at 2:58 PM

Really nice. I like this a lot!
You could decolorize in CS2 without making a separate image - just apply a layer mask to your decolorized image and paint in black on the mask those areas you wanted to restore the original colour to. In fact, I still do it that way with CS3.

Roberta Olenick
www.neverspook.com

Registered on June 19, 2006, 0 Posts, 136 Comments

Comment posted by Christina Craft on November 6, 2007 at 4:07 PM

Love this! Another technique (although not as necessary with PS3) is to create B&W with the channel mixer and then use layer masking... but I guess there are hundreds of ways to do the same thing in PS, which is the beauty of the software. This is a gorgeous compsition. Very compelling.

Registered on March 4, 2007, 75 Posts, 201 Comments

Comment posted by bill meikle on November 6, 2007 at 6:55 PM

Rick, it doesn't matter how you made it, it is an interesting image, I keep looking at the colored area and trying to see things in it.
Good job,

Bill

Registered on May 21, 2006, 173 Posts, 663 Comments

Comment posted by Brian Monk on November 7, 2007 at 10:28 PM

Rick -

Really nice shot, and a great conversion. Congrats on the EP!

Registered on June 22, 2006, 109 Posts, 452 Comments

Comment posted by Rick Lundh on November 7, 2007 at 11:31 PM

Thanks for the kudos, and the education on CS2. I didn't know it could be done there

Registered on April 28, 2004, 774 Posts, 4351 Comments

Comment posted by Rick Lundh on November 9, 2007 at 8:54 PM

I didn't want to mention this, but here goes...
I dedicate this to my brother Stephen who died in a car wreck many years ago. He was a senior in high school...some 27 years ago.
I saw the movie "The Rose" with Bette Midler in it, the night we had that aweful knock on the door.

Registered on April 28, 2004, 774 Posts, 4351 Comments

Comment posted by Kari Post on November 16, 2007 at 7:08 AM

Really neat idea Rick and excellent execution. I wonder how this image would look with softer light.

Registered on January 27, 2007, 13 Posts, 195 Comments