Came across an interesting 'postcard' painted on the side of a brick building downtown last night, another example of 'never noticed that before'...had to wrench it into a more realistic perspective via GIMP, clone out a few wires coming down from the building...fun stuff...
Florida Avenue Mural by Carl Cowden
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20th December 2011, 01:41 AM #1
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World's Largest Tampa Postcard...
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20th December 2011, 03:33 AM #2
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Re: World's Largest Tampa Postcard...
I like your B&W treatment. Looks good on alining the brick frame on three sides - with the Photoshop perspective crop tool you could have gotten the right side also.
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20th December 2011, 04:43 AM #3
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Re: World's Largest Tampa Postcard...
Thanks John, I'm definitely on a monochrome kick with these night shots. As for the perspective, when I had all the edges 5x5 the picture looked too much like a graphic so I backed off a bit (adding inperfections, go figure). Maybe perfect is the way to go, will noodle over it some more...
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Re: World's Largest Tampa Postcard...
Great vision and imagination to 'see' that image Robert.
Deciding to do it in B & W is inspired. I think 99.99% of us would have 'seen' it in colour.
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20th December 2011, 12:37 PM #5
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Re: World's Largest Tampa Postcard...
It's a great capture.
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21st December 2011, 04:54 AM #6
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Re: World's Largest Tampa Postcard...
Thank you for the feedback Donald, Malcolm, much appreciated!
Here's a colorized version, for comparison:
Florida Avenue Mural by Carl CowdenLast edited by PhotoRob; 24th December 2011 at 02:26 AM.
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21st December 2011, 01:10 PM #7
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Great work! I love it in B&W. I seam to like to have fun lately doing selective coloring so since this has soft colors that aren't to distracting and bold I personally would play around with saturation levels on this one fading out the colors from the lighted area desaturating off into the shadows. Just an idea to toy with.
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