Yesterday I attended an interesting presentation by
Irene Froy, "Pastels and More". Irene talked us through a collection of prints and walked - ran :-) - through the Photoshop process of several of the images turning them from straight prints to pastel, dream-like prints.
Today I started experimenting with her techniques for pastel images. Initial results below, Clearly I need to put in a lot more work.
Irene explained that the initial image should not be too contrasty, the flatter the better (mist and rain are good.) Being a fair-weather photographer I don't have too many of these to work with so did the best I could.
I have created my masks quickly as this is only an initial experiment to accustom me to the techniques, these are not meant to be final images or even the images I would use in anger. I would need to take images specifically with the end result in mind.
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Please visit Irene's
web site for examples of how this technique should be done.
