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There’s a perspective tool in PS Elements, so I went with that. The shadows are much better now. Unfortunately I didn’t save a copy with the sky layer earlier; I flattened too soon, so I can’t seem to get the edge of the watch to look more realistic. But the shadows are much better, at least. And given I took on the task to learn, I’d say I’ve been successful. It’s not like I’m going to be putting the image up for sale.

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Both comments are helpful. I did do the ‘copy layer’ and levels for the shadows; it was my placement and skewing that I’m not liking (for example, the gear wheel needs to be stretched, and the ‘hole’ needed to be altered to match a high sun-point shadow). And I did work on altering the shadows to try to match the different surfaces, but not enough. I chose images of the guys that matched the sun angle (as closely as I could, at least), so now I need the shadows to match as well–and I’m way far off (fortunately I’m thinking it will be the easiest of fixes, and the tip on blurring the shadows is a really good point.)

Personally, I liked the clouds (also my image); for me it gave a ‘dream-like’ quality to the image that contrasted to the ‘industrial’ concept. I’m also planning on working on the ‘face’ side of the watch. It was my great-grandfathers, damaged first by a house fire at my parents, and then by the water used by firemen to put the fire out. Had a devil of a time opening the backside!!

The frontside is sans-hands, and charred. I took some images of a friend’s (very expensive) watch, and plan on making a mosaic of giving the watch a ‘facelift’, so to speak, using the same workers. It’s actually a far-more complicated project, and will take many, many more layers than this one (which is two watch shots, 4 worker shots, duplicates for shadows, and the background sky).

Input appreciated, further points welcomed.

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Color: http://fossilspringsaz.com/pics/2013/jun/12/indyblendprojectcolor.jpg

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Awesome, will await the results.

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That’ll fit the bill, the blurry waterfall is not the focus of the composition.

It’s not about the water drops? 😛

Now I haz confuzedness. What’s the subject, then?

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Head to an estate sale that reads “lots of antique photography equipment”, and grab a Darlot lens. Best $40 I ever spent, and versatile to boot. Focus is indeed a bee-ach, but when you get it, it’s good. :o)

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Not to be picky, but can someone ask bob ross to repost his Venus transit shot in a square format?

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What’s flickr?

(aka, sorry, no. Technically I have an acct; never use it.)

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juju vibes your way!!

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+1

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+1

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I’ve been meaning to say this since I saw your entries: SCREW YOU PAL! 😀

Those are frickin’ beautiful.

Thanks! (?)

The Mormon Lake plains view used to have water up to the tree line. The story I heard from a resident was that in the 1993 earthquake centered near San Francisco, the tremor broke the lakebed (again; they repaired a smaller fissure some time previous) and the lake drained out. The community up there decided not to pursue repairing it. I can’t find references to back that up, but when I went there as a kid, it was the largest natural lake in Az. It’s a puddle now.

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Hrrm…I’ll have to mull this over, see what I got. Too bad I can’t use a panorama; but I’ll see what I can find.

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Square photos?

Oh to have a medium format camera right now!

No difficulties; crop to 1:1! (I requested this theme as a classic as its the first one where I got into the top 10 evar.)

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Does faking it include photoshopping?

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