Selective Local Control

Original from iPhon

Kathleen Stevens, one of the students in the Carmel workshop a few weeks back has been working on this image for several days. I thought the image and it's variations would be a good iPhone/iPad processing tip. The original image is above....

After several days the image below was posted to our student facebook page...I felt she had a good image but wanted to create more separation to make the car stand out a bit more. Also, the trees growing out o the roof of the car had to go....I would have wanted a clean line to show off the curve of the roof.

The image below is after much hard work by Kathleen in Touch-Retouch....I admire her persistence..Darkening the sky also helped the focus on the car....the eye is always attracted to lighter areas...

Now I am thinking this wold be a good lesson to show a few tips on local processing so the car pops off the page - after all it is the star of this show....So here is the car locally sharpened in Filterstorm by painting the sharpness into the area selected - this pops the car out a bit..

 

Then I thought why not use this and add a bit of saturation using the same Filterstorm workflow to bring even more attention to the car.......

And lastly you can use a vignette to bring even more attention to the car - darkening the edges makes the eye move to the middle of the frame....

I have been holding workshops in tandem with Teri Lou Dantzler. Check out our blogs below for more information on these workshops.Come learn creative ways to use your iPhone/iPad - and then print the image.........

Teri Lou: http://iphoneographywithterilou.blogspot.com/

Harry: http://iphone-antics.blogspot.com/