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...For As Long As This Place Remains
David of Mac
Elite RangerCa
From humble beginnings...
Seriously, I did this picture because I was frustrated with another project and felt like making [i]something[/i] I could call finished, but I didn't have any images in my head. So I decided, what the hell, I'll duplicate a professionally made picture and call it a lighting exercise (and, hey, good lighting is important, and being able to figure out whatever the lighting setup was used at a glance is danged useful). So I picked the first (and so far, only) CGI still from the new Babylon 5 direct-to-DVD anthology series, “The Lost Tales.” This particular shot is from the opening sequence, and is itself a redo of a shot from the final episode of Babylon 5.
As with most of my recent pictures, the magic happened in Photoshop, where I began my customary bloom effect. Also, rather than just reducing the saturation of the picture, I duplicated the image on a new layer, made the duplicate grayscale in the channel mixer with a bias toward the blue channel, and then reduced the opacity of that layer. Finally, I applied a slight gaussian blur so that the Photoshop grain didn't look so perfectly pixeled.
[url=http://web.mac.com/david_of_mac/iWeb/3D%20Website/Babylon%205_files/As%20Long%20As%20This%20Place%20Remains.jpg]HD Image[/url]
[url=http://www.babylon5scripts.com/TLT-JMS-Photos.html]Pictures from “The Lost Tales,” including the screencap this picture is based on.[/url]
Seriously, I did this picture because I was frustrated with another project and felt like making [i]something[/i] I could call finished, but I didn't have any images in my head. So I decided, what the hell, I'll duplicate a professionally made picture and call it a lighting exercise (and, hey, good lighting is important, and being able to figure out whatever the lighting setup was used at a glance is danged useful). So I picked the first (and so far, only) CGI still from the new Babylon 5 direct-to-DVD anthology series, “The Lost Tales.” This particular shot is from the opening sequence, and is itself a redo of a shot from the final episode of Babylon 5.
As with most of my recent pictures, the magic happened in Photoshop, where I began my customary bloom effect. Also, rather than just reducing the saturation of the picture, I duplicated the image on a new layer, made the duplicate grayscale in the channel mixer with a bias toward the blue channel, and then reduced the opacity of that layer. Finally, I applied a slight gaussian blur so that the Photoshop grain didn't look so perfectly pixeled.
[url=http://web.mac.com/david_of_mac/iWeb/3D%20Website/Babylon%205_files/As%20Long%20As%20This%20Place%20Remains.jpg]HD Image[/url]
[url=http://www.babylon5scripts.com/TLT-JMS-Photos.html]Pictures from “The Lost Tales,” including the screencap this picture is based on.[/url]
Comments
Certainly has that grain effect :)
I notice you put the Minbari cruiser on the correct side of the Primus :)
It's closer to the camera, that's why it looks so big...