Opinion wanted Abstract beach landscape - Point Lonsdale, Victoria

Andy Smith said:

Wonderful Chavezshutter,
I like the edit very much, the colours are great and the panning effect adds serenity.
Slight haloing around the guy, but that's me nitpicking as usual
Very nicely done indeed.

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Andy Smith

Chavezshutter said:

Thanks Andy Smith glad you like it. I like the nitpicking 😁, with me I want people to tell me if they see an issue - no need to dance about with my work or me. I don't always act on the advice - like if I dont agree with the opinion for example, but I always listen to anyone who makes any comment about my work. Paying attention to advice has helped me over the years tremedously. So appreciate telling it like it is though thats not always the case with everyone. One day I will pay good money to a professional who will tear my work apart with criticism and I will be ecstatic 🤣.

I once met an older photographer who was displaying his work and he almost hugged a man who walked past and swore at his work in disgust, the photographer was upset so many others had walked on without a comment or any reaction but he loved the guy who had something to say even if was not positive, he wanted to know why the viewer hated it so much - I wanna be this guy😁. More nitpicking for me please 😁

But back to the halo - Yes, its pretty noticable in the before shot, I gave the photo an initial Lightroom edit before passing it unto Photoshop. It was quite a dark shot originally but no halo so I can only assume the halo became an issue after the inital Lightroom edit. Is it noticeable on the first edit I posted? Hmm, it just occured to me you may be referring to the cutout job around the man and the seagull, I gotta clean that up 👍

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Andy Smith said:

Hi Chacezshutter, it is indeed the haloing from the cut out job around the bloke and the gull, that I was mentioning.
I will continue to nitpick in future don't worry - I do try to be helpful with my comments, and will always pat someone on the back for a job well done.

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Jack said:

Wow, such a beautiful photo, can I ask how you achieved such a great results C Chavezshutter ?

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Jack

Chavezshutter said:

Thanks Jack 😀 . I gave the photo a basic edit in Lightroom, then bought the image into Photoshop, once there I had to first trace around the man and the seagul before i copied them unto a separate layer.

So now I was left with one layer with just the man and the seagull and another with everything just like the before photo I posted. The next thing to do was to remove the man and seagull from that before shot i mentioned. I used the patch tool to do this which is a bit "quick and dirty" but I knew the blur effect I was going to use would hide it so it was fine.

Now that I had a layer with just the sea in one layer and only the man and seagul in another I could now apply the panning effect. The effect is called path blur and it can be found under Filter>Blur Gallery. You then draw lines (left to right in my case, follow the wave break direction) along the photo in places like the horizon line, shore line and around the sand. I curved the lines along the sand to create a swirl effect. You get a slider called speed to control the amount of blur. Once the effect was done I used that first man and seagul layer I did in my first step to bring them back into the final image. Hope that explains it well. If anyone wants to try it let me know if you would like some more help and perhaps I can make some type of tutorial. with more detailed steps.

Cheers,
Aaron

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Jack said:

I would be definitely be happy with a tutorial C Chavezshutter .

So the final results you achieved within photoshop ? Even the picture with smooth waves and clouds ?

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Chavezshutter said:

Yes, all of the final image was done in Photoshop including the waves and clouds. Technically you could do the a similar image with a panning shot and dragging the shutter as you pan but the man and seagull would not be sharp so you would need to forget them or composite them back into the panning shot with Photoshop. I personally did want them in my final image as I think they add to the image.

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Jack said:

I though you took both images and then just replace the subjects from one photo to an other one in PS.

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Chavezshutter said:

In this case I used a single photo but separated the man and the seagull unto a different layer, wiped out the man and the seagull from the photo and then did the panning effect before bringing back in the man and seagull. In the future I would like to try the same effect using one normal shot for the subject ( people, birds, dogs, etc ) and a real sea panning shot and then combine those into one.

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