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Posted on 06/02/09 08:44:39 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Contest 235: Museum lighting
I had to meet a colleague from overseas recently, and could think of no better meeting place in central London than the cafe in the Great Court at the British Museum. This features a recently completed glass roof covering what was previously a windy courtyard, transforming it into a beautiful indoor space: everywhere you look, you want to take a photograph. Of course, it really comes into its own when the sun comes out, at which point... well, what would this scene look like on a sunny day? High res is here.  |
Posted on 06/02/09 09:51:00 AM |
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josephine harvatt
Gag Gadgeteer Posts: 2603 Reply  |
Re: Contest 235: Museum lighting
Before my hard drive died last year I actually had some photos of the Great Court on a sunny day .... how much of a cheat would that have been ! 
(moral: always back up your work!) _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 06/02/09 1:16:01 PM |
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katew
Virtual Virtuoso Posts: 681 Reply  |
Re: Contest 235: Museum lighting
Sunshine - what's that? I've forgotten what it looks like! |
Posted on 06/02/09 1:39:58 PM |
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Jota120
Ingenious Inventor Posts: 2615 Reply  |
Re: Contest 235: Museum lighting
I love the original photo very much. Do you really want us let lose on this? Josephine, please recover you disk ..... ...... or maybe I need another flight to the UK .... ???? to see some friends etc .. ( at least the euro is strong  ) Euro Zone person 
My friends are friends and the paintings ...... |
Posted on 06/02/09 1:49:33 PM |
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maiden
Golden Gif Gagster Posts: 471 Reply  |
Re: Contest 235: Museum lighting
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Posted on 06/02/09 2:01:28 PM |
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mguyer
Incisive Incisor Posts: 799 Reply  |
Re: Contest 235: Museum lighting
Maiden beat me to it by about 15 minutes. Nice work Maiden. I like the shadows. 
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Posted on 06/02/09 3:10:26 PM |
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stefan
Detail Demon Posts: 401 Reply  |
Re: Contest 235: Museum lighting
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Posted on 06/02/09 3:33:50 PM |
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Jeepy
Modeleur Mystique Posts: 174 Reply  |
Re: Contest 235: Museum lighting
Great maiden and stefan,very well. I think I will not participate this week, you are too strong. 
How did you do that stefan ? |
Posted on 06/02/09 4:00:27 PM |
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gaoxiguo
赤土陶 器战士 Posts: 114 Reply  |
Re: Contest 235: Museum lighting
stefan做的光影质感很棒！  |
Posted on 06/02/09 5:11:44 PM |
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The Mad Lep
Four-Leafed Fantasist Posts: 323 Reply  |
Re: Contest 235: Museum lighting
Stefan that's brilliant!!! Will you tell us how you created that effect? Love it, great work!
I love the British Museum. Looking forward very much to my next trip back there. Do they still have that fantastic totem pole in the main hall? I got some terrific pictures of it but they ended up with pink streaks. Nobody mention digital cameras to me - BAH!!! Ok down to business; two from me.. I hope Michelangelo doesn't mind me borrowing from his masterpiece in the second one. I have a thing for stained glass windows and the criss cross roofing popped the idea into my head. I did attempt to make it a bit more stained glassy, but I couldn't get a good effect with it. Must look up a few tutorials for this actually. P.s. Steve - any chance of a few shots of the Natural History Museum? I'd move into that place if they let me, lol. 
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Posted on 06/02/09 5:24:27 PM |
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Jota120
Ingenious Inventor Posts: 2615 Reply |
Re: Contest 235: Museum lighting
You've got me laughing Mad Lep, you can't put graffitie there, but more than that yours and others entries are great ... I need to go away and think .....  ..... duugh .... |
Posted on 06/02/09 5:58:44 PM |
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vibeke
Kreative Kiwi Posts: 2166 Reply  |
Re: Contest 235: Museum lighting
Becky, Just love your entry, makes me feel warm, Some really great ones already, not sure how to compete with those. _________________ Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. |
Posted on 06/02/09 6:35:16 PM |
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maiden
Golden Gif Gagster Posts: 471 Reply |
Re: Contest 235: Museum lighting
Myguyer that skylight was excellently cut out I'm very impressed by how well people have done that and I especially love Stefan's movie scene painting very impressive as I'm just getting into the power of After Effects then this appeals to me - do you follow tutorials or do you make your own tutorials because I would love to get some insight. |
Posted on 06/02/09 7:46:11 PM |
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stefan
Detail Demon Posts: 401 Reply |
Re: Contest 235: Museum lighting
Thanks very much for the nice comments:-) Ok, I'll try and explain how to do this...... I don't work very systematically, so it's hard to explain it step by step. I tend to know how it should look like and I work towards that, so I keep jumping from one bit to another and tweak whatever needs tweaking. The rays of light are very easy. You just make a duplicate of the image and run the radial blur filter on it. On full strenght and with "zoom". Put the little plus sign where you want to rays to come from and then put that layer on "screen". Just paint away the bits you don't want. The"tone" and "color" of the image are done by adjustment layers that are masked black, and then all the bits I want are painted in. So I play with curves, levels, desaturation and solid color adjustments. The solid color ones are then put in overlay and again, painted in. I wanted the shadow parts to have a bit of a blue tone in it and the sun parts very warm, so I did two solid color adjustment layers. For the golden tone I also do a high contrast, warm, curves layer, put that on screen, mask it black and paint the highlights in with a low opacity brush. You can also just do a warm ,curves adjustment layer and paint that in. there's many ways of achieving the result you want. So basically it's a lot of adjustment layers and a lot of painting. Also I did a blurred version of the whole thing , masked that black, then painted some of that in on corners etc. to get a "bloom" effect. Hope that helped a little. |
Posted on 06/02/09 7:54:53 PM |
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maiden
Golden Gif Gagster Posts: 471 Reply |
Re: Contest 235: Museum lighting
Yes Stefan that help very much - Thanks for the explanation. Here my attempt using your technique, Stefan - not as good as your but I'm liking this technique. 
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Posted on 06/02/09 8:01:39 PM |
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Daniel H
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Re: Contest 235: Museum lighting
Hello! I am a little new. I found this forum thanks to Steve's book (very interesting). I am impressed by the imagination and talent of all. I am French and I write in English thanks to Google! I hope that you will not have much difficulty understanding me.  |
Posted on 06/02/09 8:06:45 PM |
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katew
Virtual Virtuoso Posts: 681 Reply |
Re: Contest 235: Museum lighting
Hello Daniel! Welcome to the forum. Your English is very good - better than my French! |
Posted on 06/02/09 8:35:02 PM |
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josephine harvatt
Gag Gadgeteer Posts: 2603 Reply |
Re: Contest 235: Museum lighting
Bienvenue Daniel ! J'aime votre image _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 06/02/09 8:42:53 PM |
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josephine harvatt
Gag Gadgeteer Posts: 2603 Reply |
Re: Contest 235: Museum lighting
Here's mine - I confess to finding a hard copy of one of my Great Court photos which I used as a rough guide, but even so it was hard going - in the end I went for what looked right as opposed to what was accurate ! I may come back later with a less vanilla version, but in the meantime I wish I had been the first to think of adding some graffiti ... 
_________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 06/02/09 9:01:59 PM |
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steve hill
Brain Basher Posts: 228 Reply  |
Re: Contest 235: Museum lighting
decided to sneek in for a private after hours viewing  |
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