RAF Bentwaters - having a snout round...

[chris.mapey]

Blagged my way onto the runway & hangar side of the disused RAF Betwaters having a snout round for locations... took loads, will upload more later.

Please excuse the Copen in most of the shots :hehe:

Also, all comments on the processing welcome, as I have just started using Paint Shop Pro X.

[pic]http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y267/mapey/Hangar1.jpg[/pic]

[pic]http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y267/mapey/CopenRunway.jpg[/pic]

[pic]http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y267/mapey/FuelBunker.jpg[/pic]

[pic]http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y267/mapey/CopenHanger.jpg[/pic]

[pic]http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y267/mapey/CopenSpotColour1.jpg[/pic]

All comments welcome!

Chris

[beano500]

Like them - like the perspective: especially in #2 and #3

chris.mapey said:

Also, all comments on the processing welcome, as I have just started using Paint Shop Pro X.

Fun to be on the learning curve, isn't it? They look pretty good on the screen - in fact, since the first impression is that they haven't been footled around and you can't see the effect of post processing, I reckon that's a pretty good sign that things are going right!

[chris.mapey]

Thank you for your comments.

To give you an idea, this is the last one, straight from the camera...



I'm enjoying playing (sorry learning !)

Chris

[zhastaph]

Great pics, particulalry love the sky

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Your edited one I liked until I saw the original, first thing that caught my eye was that it's a real shame to lose the red in the seats



I'm still learning PS all the time myself, so I am by no means no expert. I cant quite work out what you've done, but I'm guessing you used the magic wand tool to select the background then desaturated it? That's probably what I woulda done in my earlier days, anyway.

These days I tend to prefer to take a little more time over it, zoom in so that the pixels are nice and large then using the lasso tool on additive mode cut my way round the car 1 panel at a time. Then put it into subtractive mode and take out all the bits I've gone too far on etc.

Once the cars selected as a mask I then create a new layer from it and name it car.

I repeat this for anything else I don't want desaturated.

Then select the background layer and desaturate.

The above took me about 10 minutes.

Nice pics by the way

[_dobbo_]

Some nice pics, and a cool little car.

I like the processing in this one a lot:



and i also really like the one in front of the hangar. I reckon it would be improved by turning the wheels the other way - but that's just being picky. Actually the one above could have benefited from the wheels pointing the other way as well.

good stuff though, looks like a really good location.

[chris.mapey]

Thanks Colin.

Much appreciated comments.

Didn't notice the seats - should have done. Your image looks much better.

I used the magic wand to select the car, copied to a new layer, then destaturated the background.

Still learning...

Chris

[zhastaph]

chris.mapey said:

Still learning...

Me too to be honest I recently bought a graphics tablet, makes doing stuff like that sooooo much easier than using a mouse

[GetCarter]

Very nice Chris

I would (if it were my shot) do this (I did it very roughly in about 20 seconds so it's a bit rough, but you get the idea - it needs some sky under the car also to make it look realistic.) Anyway - just a thought :