PHOTO ART: Mini-challenge #145 – Chapel through the Trees

[garazon]

Why do I keep seeing things moonlit? Oh well if you all get tired of them, make me stop..please!
did add a bit of fog this time,

[Swampy]

Garazon.. I'm with you. All I could think of was "Chapel In The Moonlight". Now the song is running around in my head!

Duplicated the background layer, set a deep purple color fill overlay layer. Added a curves Adjustment layer with a mask to paint in the lighter areas. Added the moon with a touch of noise in it. Ran a lighting effect. Added another layer filled with the same deep purple with some noise in it and inverted that and set to overlay for some graininess.

[Kraellin]

this was done with the Redfield plugin, lattice composer, the growcut masking and extraction plugin (thanks, dead moroz!), and an impressionist setting of my own design. there were also several blending modes used on different layers.

craig

[Steve Conway]

Smoothing....Impressionist...and blends.

Steve

[OnAir]

Color correction, render - fibers for the sky, same filter structure as a selection - for smudge tool. Moon - adjustment layer with screen and outside glove. On the same layer - stars with scaled round brush. Added some grain in the chapel.

[Swampy]

Onair

Great techniques, but my eye tells me that with the moon behind the church, the lighting and shadows do not "fit". Love your sky rendering though.

[Cassidy]

Well just a quickie here, ink outline followed by a bit of desaturation and then the sandstone texture filter

[OnAir]

Originally Posted by Swampy

Onair

Great techniques, but my eye tells me that with the moon behind the church, the lighting and shadows do not "fit". Love your sky rendering though.

I'm a little bit confused with the lighting scene rendering. I thought to create a feeling of rising sun in foreground of the chapel, I'd say between an eye of observer and the picture, and hiding moon behind chapel. This I cannot imagine. I would be very thankful for any suggestion

[palms1]

Just a simple coloured sketch effect but might alter it later see if i cant knock some of the anisio off

added 2nd attempt less anisotropic and slightly different hue

Palms

[Swampy]

OnAir

There is no visible light sorce for the front of the church. What I'm saying is the big shadow cast to the right of the church suggests a light sorce from the left (off stage) which is not, obviously, your setting moon which should be casting shadows to the front of the church. The other thing is the light color from the setting moon is white, whereas the light color from a rising sun behind the viewer would probably be shades of salmon to yellow and would affect the entire ambiant lighting.

Like I said, I love the soft technique you used for the sky and the stars are appealing I'm just confused by the lighting/shadow issues.

[dkcoats]

I used Dave's Simplifier action (in CS2), then Impressionist>kentc's Cezanne preset with some mods. Selected the sky and other flat parts, copied to new layer, ran Impressionist again with some h/s/b jitter to bust up the flat colors.

dc

[OnAir]

Swampy
Thank you wery much. I think you are absolutely right about the light scene interpretation. I'll try to rebuild it, like you suggested, just for myself, otherwise it would become quite boring for everybody

[Peter S]

Decided to keep it in daylight and not add the Moon.


Peter

Larger version

[img=http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/9531/churchtreehyd5.th.jpg]

[byRo]

Made myself a new tool.

Applied once with a larger radius and again with a small radius.
Ended up with a Pen-and-wash image.

Rô