Looking for "WOW" factor in my photos.
I'm looking for something that I can do to my sports photographs that will help them to stand out over the competition's. I have PS Element 6. Preferably something that can be done in a few steps. Any suggestions? If possible, I'd like to see examples of the finished product. Thanks!
Re: Looking for "WOW" factor in my photos.
What exactly do you consider WOW? Can you give some examples.
I'm not being trite.....my Wow & yours are probably very different.
Len
Re: Looking for "WOW" factor in my photos.
I'm open to different ideas but as an example I remember seeing a photo where a streaking effect was placed behind a runner to make it look as if he was running really fast. Another possibility is anything that will make one player in a football game stand out from among the rest. Such as is done when most of the photograph is in B & W but the main subject is in color.
What I'm looking for are special effects that I can post examples of on my website and then offer to include in prints I am selling for an added cost. I am in a very competitive area when it comes to local sports photography and I am hoping that with these effects, I will be able to offer something that the competition is not offering.
Does anybody know of a website I can go to to see examples of such effects?
Re: Looking for "WOW" factor in my photos.
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Originally Posted by SenorNikonMan
Another possibility is anything that will make one player in a football game stand out from among the rest. Such as is done when most of the photograph is in B & W but the main subject is in color.
Here's a really simple technique which may or may not be what you had in mind. Add a selective burn layer. You can do it by either making a point to point selection around the player and then inverting the selection and use flood fill in burn mode, or simply add a whole burn layer and then use the eraser to expose the player leaving the background burnt, or create a mask over the player. I stole a photo from your website to illustrate the result at different percent opacities ( :hand: hey - you asked for examples!)
http://www.jet-visa.com/gallery/albu...pics/burn2.jpg
This took about 3 minutes, including the text.
Re: Looking for "WOW" factor in my photos.
Well, making a runner looking to run really fast is a simple technique of panning with him with a wide aperture setting which will not only blur the background, but make it look as if it's swooshing by and you froze him in time. You could also use Photoshop to pull him out of the frame and then sepia everything else, making the color subject really pop out.
Just off the top of my head.
Re: Looking for "WOW" factor in my photos.
Hmmm, after reading such all this, i ll suggest you to use blur/Clone tool, to have some extra ordinary look into your picture and for this ou can use adobe Photoshop, its a best photo editor, also used at on industrial level.