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One-Four Challenge: May Week Two – The Lock
Here’s my May, week two edit for Robyn’s One-Four Challenge.
For this week’s edit I decided to use a really close crop, shifting the focus away from the lock itself to the looping connections of the hasp and staple. I then added a black and white gradient map and fiddled around with the settings until the shadows and highlights were at the levels I wanted. To finish it off I increased the contrast very slightly and brushed the sharpen tool lightly over the metal. All edits were done using Photoshop Elements 13.
Here’s the original and the week one edit:
Original image
Week one edit
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14 Comments on “One-Four Challenge: May Week Two – The Lock”
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Interesting crop. I like the shift in focus and grittiness of thus version.
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Thank you. 🙂 I was quite fascinated by the loops!
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This one’s very cool 🙂
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Thank you!
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Yes it’s a much grittier version. I think it’s good to take a closer look – you never know what you’ll find and the B&W brings out all of the textures.
This one has become quite abstract. I like that 🙂
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Thank you for visiting. I saw this crop when I first looked at the photo last week and knew I’d have to do it. 🙂 I’m glad you like it.
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I like the closer crop and the texture of this image!
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Thank you. 🙂 This is an edit I knew I’d do from the time I first saw the picture. I’m glad you like it.
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I like this closer crop. I really the way the crop makes the textures stand out more. Well done 😃
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Thank you. It was one edit I knew I wanted to do. 🙂
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Rust makes for some wonderful textures and with this crop you have done a great job of capturing this!
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Thank you. I’m glad you liked it. 🙂
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I love this tight crop…and very effective in black and white
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Thank you. 🙂
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