I like the rusting metal of the door a lot, so I took a shot of this one, while shooting for my abandoned series. The textures of the door and the wall are great to see. It's shot last year. I don't know what's behind the door but it looks like it is a dangerous place. This year (yes, in 2010) I was back at the place and the door is gone. Only an empty garage place is left where I already shot a bunch of images (until I heard security showing up; don't worry I escaped just in time). Later I'll post the images (after processing them).
TECH-INFO: also for this one I took multiple shots to turn them into a HDR file and to tone-map it. It's a great way to enhance all kind of details and textures. The plates at the bow above the door were made of card board or hard paper. I didn't like it so I took an image of a rusty metal plate and replaced it in a similar way as using textures in images (something that looks like a fashion on the internet). Using various layers I darkened the sand on the floor and added a creative kind of vignetting (instead of circular shaped one).
Closed Rusty Door
I like the rusting metal of the door a lot, so I took a shot of this one, while shooting for my abandoned series. The textures of the door and the wall are great to see. It's shot last year. I don't know what's behind the door but it looks like it is a dangerous place. This year (yes, in 2010) I was back at the place and the door is gone. Only an empty garage place is left where I already shot a bunch of images (until I heard security showing up; don't worry I escaped just in time). Later I'll post the images (after processing them).
TECH-INFO: also for this one I took multiple shots to turn them into a HDR file and to tone-map it. It's a great way to enhance all kind of details and textures. The plates at the bow above the door were made of card board or hard paper. I didn't like it so I took an image of a rusty metal plate and replaced it in a similar way as using textures in images (something that looks like a fashion on the internet). Using various layers I darkened the sand on the floor and added a creative kind of vignetting (instead of circular shaped one).
Yes, it does look quite forboding.It's a nice shot.
a couple of thoughts for you--might make it even more forboding were you to edgeburn it (or create a darker but subtle vignette). The other thought is you might want to take a look at Topaz Adjust--you can get some good effects with it if used with a light touch (and on a layer of it's own so you can adjust the opacity). It's a relatively inexpensive filter that works within Photoshop that can substitute for HDR processing to a certain degree without requiring multiple exposures.
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a couple of thoughts for you--might make it even more forboding were you to edgeburn it (or create a darker but subtle vignette). The other thought is you might want to take a look at Topaz Adjust--you can get some good effects with it if used with a light touch (and on a layer of it's own so you can adjust the opacity). It's a relatively inexpensive filter that works within Photoshop that can substitute for HDR processing to a certain degree without requiring multiple exposures.