Another shot from San Francisco. Moderate post processing on this to
bring out the colours and contrast (you can see the original by
removing the _pp).
This gate struck me as being so old in a place so new. It was almost as
though 1635 were the year it was built.
Image
Original here
That's a great picture. What part of SF was that taken in? Looks kind of like the area around Coit Tower
Re:Post processing really brings out the red hues
Matts on 2006-03-10T18:26:21
It was somewhere on Mason street. Off the top of my head somewhere around Mason and Jackson.
Well, I guess it was 1635 Mason St:-D
Re:post-processing
Matts on 2006-03-10T19:10:01
Photoshop 7.
Basic process was:
- Convert to lab.
- In Curves, bring the a and b channels in about 20 points at the top and bottom. This enhances the colours a bit without blowing anything out (comes from Dan Margulis' book "Photoshop LAB Color: The Canyon Conundrum").
- Convert back to RGB
- Add layer, selective colour. Saturated and desaturated some colours until I was happy.
- Add layer, curves. Basic S-shaped curve to bring out the contrast.
- Using the lasso tool, selected an outline around the image with a 100px feather, inverted the selection.
- Layer, new via copy.
- Set that new layer's mode to Multiply. Play with opacity a bit if it's too much.
It's a combination of these techniques (custom every time) that I tend to use on most of my images. It really gives them that extra pop.
