Spring is coming to the cemeteries.

Woody0722

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I am currently finding the cemeteries fascinating. Quiet and no one to pester you. With spring coming there are some interesting shots to be had. Kinda makes one think a little. We all end up there, but how will things play out in a low level area? These are from cemeteries in South Dakota, but not all the same one.
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Rick M

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Interesting shots Woody. I like the perspectives and mood you have captured.

For future reference, please read the critique forum rules prior to posting in this section. Better to have one photo critiqued at a time. Posting groups of shots works better in an individual or group thread. I really like the first and last shots the best, nice work.
 

STM

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Cemeteries can be both creepy and amazing at the same time. You have some terrific shots here. I especially like the first one. The panorama with the name of the cemetery in the foreground and the snow covered field gives an air of coldness and death that is what a cemetery is all about and black and white is absolutely the best way to convey that feeling.


And who can forget probably the most memorable and iconic photo of a cemetery ever taken?

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I have had an idea for some cemetery shots rolling around in my brain for a long time, I just have get out and shoot them. Since photographing my moonlight is so variable and you have to deal with lights from other sources as well, it is better to shoot this late morning or early afernoon when there are good hard shadows. You can re-create "moonlight" in Photoshop by knocking down the saturation of the image until it is almost gone, and then add a pretty heavy blue cast to the image. Now the sun becomes the moon. You will need to photograph the scene twice; once without the model and one with. I want to get a model in a long slowing dress, reminiscent of the kind of burial shrouds women wore in the 1800's. You cut the model out of the second image and paste her into the first one, with no blue cast. You then go into effects and put a faint glow around her and then finally adjust her opacity to maybe 50% or whatever looks good. She has now gone from a living person to an apparaition. You leave the scene sharp but blur her a little to give a more surreal impression. It should not be difficult to do but I just need to get out and do it. We have a 200+ year old Catholic cemetery, one of the oldest in the country, here in town here with no shortage of scenes which would be perfect!This is purely a quick and dirty "artist's misconception" of what I want to do. I will have a lot more control over the image when I take them myself. I just found some inages on the web and played around with them in Photoshop. It only took at most 10 minutes to construct this image


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