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Bill Pador > Creative "Selective Color" Portrait
Bill Pador > "Ballet in the Shadows" Like most other photographers I'm always chasing after the LIGHT that will create a creative image. I found it today staring me right in the face. While walking up the stairs I saw this image which was begging me to shot it. My daughter had left her ballet slippers laying on the floor and I happened to notice the sun gleaming through the front window onto the wooden floor casting this great shadow of the window panes & separators. So I moved the slippers over a few inches into the light and took the shot. I tried a few different things in PP and decided to do a Selective Color finish. I was torn between leaving it alone because of the wonderful color & grain of the natural wood floor but turning it into a B&W and highlighting the shoes really made it different & unique. Post was nothing more then adding a customized B&W layer using CS3's new B&W layer mode & adjusting the reds & yellows a bit. Then painting over the shoes with a black brush bringging the color back on them and then a small amount of unsharp mask & an OnOne Frame to complete it. I have another shot that had a large amount of light & shadows contrasting the image I liked also so I had to post it in my DAILY EXRAS gallery which can be SEEN HERE BTW: Thanks for all the wonderful comments on my West Point image, it sure brought a LOT of great memories back driving around my old stomping grounds after 20 years. I couldn't believe the amount of change West point has seen over those years, but I guess everything keeps moving with time, even such a historical place like that. "I NEED YOUR VOTES FOR STATE RUN CONTEST" PS: If you would like to help me please click here GREAT DESTINATIONS NJ and register (it's Free) and only takes a few seconds, then perform a SEARCH using my name for People or Photos to search for my photos (you can use last or both names to perform the search). My photos will appear and then just pick a few of your favorites and click only the "I DIG IT" to cast your votes. After the first vote is placed a RANDOM photo will appear from another photographer, so either hit your back button to return to my images to cast another vote or repeat the search function. There is no need to vote for all 15 of my images, just pick 2 or 3 that you like that's all I ask. It's a great place to showcase my art to the entire state of NJ and great free publicity & advertising for my studio and with over $20,000 in prizes that will be awarded possibly some extra cash in my pocket and will be published in a State Sponsored Photo Book too ! Thanks for all your support, I really appreciate your taking the time to help me with this contest. ~BILL~
Bill Pador > Multi Layered clouds with sun rays poking through and an Erie colored sky
Bill Pador > The CLASSIC Wet CD shot - Everyone has to have one of these in their Portfolio don't they LOL
Bill Pador > Selective color image of a bottle cap collection
Bill Pador > A Rusty old railroad spike that held some interesting rust patterns & color to it, it's actually a pretty small spike around 5" long and about 1" around but by using a low angle shot and getting within 2" of the lens glass and 1:1 magnification and great Bokeh of the backdrop it looks huge.
Bill Pador > This is the back side of an old Caboose that must have been repainted recently. It had some really good vivid color combinations on it along with good contrast & saturation. If you look into the mesh window guard you can actually see the clear blue sky through the window on the opposite side that bleeds through the image adding to the awesome color contrast & saturation here.
Bill Pador > Captured at the same location as the old Blue/Red Abstract door previously posted this rusted pipe and large wooden planks & bolts made for a really interesting photo to me. I was able to utilize my Circular Polarized filter to bring out some additional color in the sky which peaks through on the right upper & lower corners contrasting the vivid aged rust stains on the pipe against the dull wooden frame. As an artist I saw a huge oppertunity to capture a nice combination or colors & textures here. Let me know what you think !
Bill Pador > These gears were located on a hand pump rail cart. The paint was chipping off and it contained a ton of rust on it, making for a PERFECT abstract capture for me because I was looking for something like this to try a cool technique out on commonly known as the Dave Hill Look. I did this on my own not following any tutorials just to try and see if I could figure out on my own how to get that LOOK & FEEL his photographs have and I think I did a pretty good job for my first try. I have however gained some tutorials to read and I will be adding another section in the Abstract Gallery to display the work I do to get this look down pat so that I may offer it to my clients in the near future. So keep checking back to see when I post the new photos in the Abstract Gallery displaying this technique which when done right makes a real photograph have this totally unique look to them which I describe as a cross between a cartoon, a highly textured image and an old oil painting. I can't wait to offer this to my clients, you will go batty over this stuff !
Creative "Selective Color" Portrait
Bill Pador > Creative "Selective Color" Portrait
Creative "Selective Color" Portrait
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