Truck Engine

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Truck Engine

Postby zafra52 on Sun May 27, 2012 12:03 pm

I took the photo of an old service truck engine a couple
of weeks ago and I couldn't make my mind what to do
with it. This is what I came up with:

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Re: Truck Engine

Postby sirhc55 on Sun May 27, 2012 12:15 pm

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Re: Truck Engine

Postby Geoff M on Sun May 27, 2012 1:18 pm

Very creative - would be intersted in seeing the original image(s)
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Re: Truck Engine

Postby zafra52 on Sun May 27, 2012 1:29 pm

Thank you for your kind comments. Here are the two original pictures.

Back of an old oven tray

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Truck's engine

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Re: Truck Engine

Postby Remorhaz on Sun May 27, 2012 2:44 pm

Very nice end result I must say - I'm not normally a fan of textured images (actually I usually hate them) but the effect here is good.
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Re: Truck Engine

Postby TonyT on Sun May 27, 2012 5:14 pm

I am not a great fan of textured images either except when there done well like this one you have really made a nice image here
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Re: Truck Engine

Postby surenj on Mon May 28, 2012 9:12 pm

Hi Zafra, What was your workflow?

I reckon you could add some contrast thus...[pls ignore the loss of sharpness]

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Re: Truck Engine

Postby zafra52 on Tue May 29, 2012 6:33 pm

surenj, I use the two photgraphs in layers
and I adjusted their transparancy to get
the result I wanted. I think I added another
layer for vigneting.
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Re: Truck Engine

Postby PiroStitch on Tue May 29, 2012 10:29 pm

Prefer the first version as it's more subtle. Nice blend of the two photos.
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