Something to do on a cold day

[KCBrecks]

It is, for us, a cold day. Bright but cold, with a westerly blowing straight off the snow covered Pennines a few miles away. Perfect for staying indoors. So, photo editing fitted the bill. I had a picture from inside a working water mill I took a couple of weeks ago so I cloned out the Health and Mickey Mouse notices, where I could, dodged the darker regions to bring out the machinery, but still had some clutter. So I added a layer, pasted the copied image onto that, then desaturated that, added a Layer Mask, Reveal All and carefully painted back the working parts. After flattening the layers I then applied perspective alteration - the column at the left rear does lean. (There is a little motion blur on the crown wheel as it was rotating.)

I like the result, taking out the guard railing so that the workings stand out more.

This is Worsborough Mill, Worsborough Dale, Barnsley.

(Canon 1000D, EF-S 18-55mm lens, no IS, Handheld.)

What does anyone else think? (C&C welcome)

[easternlight]

Hello Keith,

I like the way you photographed it, but desaturising as part of the picture, makes it unnatural to me. I am interested to see it without the saturasation. This way it might be better.

[ldasignup]

Nice pictures. It would be interesting to see the original so as to observe the changes you made.

Nice camera, the Canon Rebel 1000. It was my first DSLR, and I have very fond memories of it.

I'm curious why you disabled IS on the 18-55mm and shot hand-held? Was that intentional on your part?

You might consider darkening the left-side doorway so as to de-emphasize it.

[KCBrecks]

Thank you for your comments. This was took a pleasant hour or so to do and helped cement the method in my mind, I hope. I have been back to the image this morning and put the lens correction on the unmasked original, still cloned and dodged.

Lynn - I didn't disable IS on the lens, it doesn't have it. None of my 3 lenses do, I just have to be careful, I suppose I have got used to not having it over the years. Santa will be leaving the IS version along with a 1100D for one of my grandsons soon so I will have to see if that makes a difference, assuming he lets me borrow it. As the mill was running I thought hand held was the best option, you could feel a vibration in the floor.