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in the garden of good and evil
in the garden of good and evil
cgino


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Camera: Nikon D80
Lens: Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 18-135mm f/3.5- 5.6G ED DX
Location: Oregon or Washington
Galleries: Emotive, Overlays
Date Uploaded: Dec 5, 2008

Viewed: 459
Comments: 24
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 This was some strange set of sculptures I saw out of the car window when I was traveling from Portland to Seattle. I was on the freeway, and yes, these were huge!
Processing in CS3:
Color Efex Pro (CEP) Tonal Contrast default value
Again, CEP Tonal Contrast default value
Copy layer, Neat Image to calm down noise, 77% opacity
Copy NI, multiply mode 18% opacity to increase contrast in sky with mask over ground and trees
Copy original NI layer, apply Redfield Fractalius Glow 100 filter (yes, that's the creator of those evil force fields), overlay mode 73% opacity, ground lightly masked out
Hue & saturation to control color
Levels to adjust contrast
New layer soft light mode 80% opacity, paint with white on ground and short trees to create cloudy effect
New layer 50% opacity, paint with pink over flowers
(about this time I came up with the title, and realized I needed more 'good' in the garden than pink flowers, so I thought to turn the statue into an angel)
Add halo and wings to ground statue (they were brushes I found here)
My overlay grainy texture here, overlay mode 85% opacity
My overlay viewfinder here, overlay mode 59% opacity
Resize
Those are the main detials :-)

Original:


Thanks for all the comments, everyone! This is so not my normal style or subject (no cats anywhere...:-)

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 12/10/2008 09:56:58 AM
ahh coool. the statues look like they are creating a ripple in time. i love the wings of the angel statue on the ground.
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 12/08/2008 07:16:43 PM
Very cool find! It looks like that angel on the ground could take flight at any second!
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 12/07/2008 09:26:59 PM
Wow - great subject matter. Cool spotting. I think the original is a pretty cool picture too.
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 12/07/2008 07:14:04 AM
cool processing, looks great
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 12/07/2008 12:25:10 AM
Wait..no cats! This is great...oozing loads of mood and atmosphere. It's like some sort of strange cemetery.
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 12/06/2008 10:57:54 PM
This is amazing .... so alive!!! Love the editing!
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 12/06/2008 02:03:24 PM
Fantastic!!
Love the forcefield effects, makes everything look very alien. The angel wings are really funky looking too
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 12/05/2008 11:24:34 PM
That's quite the job of processing; thanks for sharing your steps. I just love the moodiness in the picture, and of course that bit of fractalius to create the evil for fields.
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 12/05/2008 07:30:34 PM
wow colleen .. very dark and atmospheric .. using fractalius to create those 'force fields' was a stroke of genius .. !! .. great pp .. :)
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 12/05/2008 04:12:15 PM
What an amazing job, it's just beautiful. Great find, too.
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 12/05/2008 01:48:37 PM
So dark and dreary.. this really sets a mood. Good work!
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 12/05/2008 01:30:06 PM
Very eerie and very weird. Title is quite appropriate!
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 12/05/2008 01:26:01 PM
Thanks for posting your steps! I love that! :) This is a very interesting image. It draws me in and makes me want to see more.
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 12/05/2008 01:24:33 PM
Totally inspiring !!!
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 12/05/2008 01:08:43 PM
Ooohhh I love the little pink flowers the whole processing is just wonderful you are so clever!
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 12/05/2008 01:04:22 PM
How cool, they must be really big sculptures.
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 12/05/2008 09:30:57 AM
love the creepy, wicked Halloween feel to this one ... the angel statue in the middle really brings the whole thing together ... perfect title!!
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 12/05/2008 09:19:57 AM
Yeah, I noticed the "force field" look too. Wicked cool. All the foreground detail that's lost to the darkness of the original image too...really good.
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 12/05/2008 08:39:19 AM
YES YES!!!
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 12/05/2008 06:50:21 AM
The processing does call attention to itself, but it creates a great mood.
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 12/05/2008 06:09:17 AM
The processing makes this totally wild. I love it.
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 12/05/2008 02:17:58 AM
perfect title for the image..
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 12/05/2008 02:11:14 AM
Good job of processing this to make it look like there is a force field around the objects. This was a good find. The angel in the center stands out nicely in the edited version.
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 12/05/2008 02:05:35 AM
mmmmmm moody
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