Misty Duck House

[Tigger]

yes it was a clear day, not easy to make mist / fog look right - either way its my attempt

Misty Duck House by Ian Theobald, on Flickr

[rcarca]

Re: Misty Duck House

Seen on FB. I would have been tempted to splat the colours a bit more and then brush the mist back in!

[colin C]

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I always try to find something positive to say about an image, so here goes:

As an exercise in composition, it works very well and the reflection adds a certain balance to the shot.

[tesarver]

Re: Misty Duck House

I always try to find something positive to say about an image, so here goes:

As an exercise in composition, it works very well and the reflection adds a certain balance to the shot.

Agree with Colin. Well done Ian

Tom

[Tigger]

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Thanks Colin and Tom ...I wasn't 100% sure about this image and maybe I'll have a look at it without the mist just to see if it works better

[Stan]

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the reflection is excellent but would be better I think if the colours "popped"

[Tigger]

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problem is stan you don't get popped colour in fog/mist ...I'm going to look at again without using the fog process

cheers for the feedback bud

[El Sid]

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To be honest I'm not really getting a mist impression, it looks more moonlit than anything.

Of course I had to have a play...




Achieved by creating a blank layer set to Lighten and painting white onto the layer at very low opacity and building it up until I felt it looked about right.

I then realised that another thing mist does is soften the edges of the things it obscures so I added a low pixel Gaussian blur filter to a copy of the base image, lying below the mist layer, and the masked out the parts that should look sharp, ie where the mist is least - on the building and lake edge.

This is just a quickie job, with time I'm sure better could be achieved.

[Tigger]

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its an idea I've given up with TBH - I don't think fake mist or fog seems to work.. but thanks you for efforts Sid