Gothic grunge
Sometimes it is the general feel of a scene that makes me pick up the camera while on other occasions it is something very specific. With this image it was something very specific – the shadow cast by the spiral mounting onto the bell itself.
This made the post processing very straight forward – I wasn’t playing with hunches or something equally vague – I wanted to pop that shadow out as much as possible. I knew that the rest of the image would fall into place if I succeeded in doing that.
The added texture and vignetting may appear to be purely decorative but they both serve to emphasize the shadow cast on the bell.
Adobe CS 2 now free
You probably already know about this but just in case:
Adobe have made all of their Creative Suite 2 software available for free including Photoshop – download all or parts of it from here. No catch, no trial version. I can vouch for the fact the Photoshop CS2 works absolutely fine on my windows 7 machine – in fact it flies!
Of course it goes without saying that it round trips with LR 4 perfectly. So my new recommended cheap but professional editing setup is Lightroom 4 as a hub with Photoshop CS2 and Snapseed as external editors. This image was edited using Snapseed.
Update
looks like this was a mistake by Adobe. Apparently the whole thing was intended for those who had already purchased the software. At the last check the downloads were disabled.
Not Adobe’s finest moment.
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Love this, very cool.
Really like : ))
I like this Dark ambiance! Like an old Fantastic movie.
heavy and nice!
Thanks! when stuck on something Goth I think what would Evelyn do :) +Evelyn S. Lamprey
Thanks +Jules Falk Hunter :) I am about to check your stream I've got really behind over the past few days.
Thanks +Andre malkovitch you guessed my weakness :)
Thanks +Mahlegha Kazemi I was in the mood for something a bit darker. :)
No worries, haven't been posting much , so should be a short and sweet visit : ) +Steve Johnson
+Jules Falk Hunter ha! I've been dipping in and out – just thought it was bad timing on my part.
Beautiful! I love the shapes and the old film vibe here.
+Mylah Nazario Thanks appreciated – I do really like the look of old film and anything cinematic :)