Jonathan Penney, Inc. provides creative digital editing and high-end printmaking on fine art papers to professional photographers.
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Creative Vision - "Story"Created about 3 weeks ago
Weekly Makeover 10/23/09Created about a month ago
Jonathan Penney Creative Imaging
Jonathan Penney Creative Imaging
Creative Vision: PRINCIPLE #1 - "Stay true to the Story"
Let your editing decisions be driven by the story; direct the viewers eye with tonality, focus, color and composition.
(Photo by Cliff Mautner)
Jonathan Penney Creative Imaging Weekly Makeover 10/23/09: FB friend Steve Kuperman submitted some images for the makeover series. I chose this one because I love dark and moody images (hmmm, like that's a surprise to anybody....) I used several curves adjustment layers to "paint" in the tonality where I wanted it, then applied a split tone curve, and added some grain.
Jonathan Penney Creative Imaging Weekly Makeover 10/20/09: This is one of my own images (I do unleash myself from the printers and actually get out and shoot once in a while!!)... I loved the early morning atmospheric feel of the original, but felt compelled to mess around with it anyway; sometimes I like to avoid the obvious interpretations; it can turn out to be a very good creative "exercise"....
Jonathan Penney Creative Imaging Weekly Makeover 09/15/09: This one is about composition; I didn't want the lighthouse dead center, but wanted to keep the boats and people. I copied and moved that section, and added a layer mask that I painted through to blend the new layer with the background, then cropped from the bottom and left side. A texture layer was added, along with color balance and density curves layers. Photo by Silvio Mayorga.
Jonathan Penney Creative Imaging Weekly Makeover 09/11/2009: This is a classic case where using a combination of localized placement of tonality, contrast, color, sharpness and texture all work together to give better separation of subject and background, bring the viewer into the "moment" and tell our "story" with style. Original photo supplied by Adrianne Kimbrell.
Jonathan Penney Creative Imaging Weekly Makeover 09/03/2009: In this makeover, the treatment is inspired by one of the earliest color photographic processes, the "Autochrome", in use from 1890 to around 1915, characterized by it's soft muted colors and "pointillistic" grain texture. Thanks to Candice Chambers for supplying the original file.
Jonathan Penney Creative Imaging
Weekly Makeover 08/31/09: My inspiration for this makeover comes from a Renaissance painting; I love the warm color and texture. I keep a scrapbook of images that includes classical art, movie posters, book and cd covers, alternative and vintage photos, etc; I turn to it whenever I need some extra inspiration for imag...e "treatment". It really helps me to expand my "visual vocabulary". Photo by Nausheen Khurram.Read More
Jonathan Penney Creative Imaging Weekly Makeover 08/26/09: The original composition, shot by photographer Farrah Braniff, had the feel of a calotype (paper neg process), so I went with that treatment by adding some antique paper texture layers and a border scanned from a vintage photographic print. Much of my recent creative inspiration has come from vintage and alternative photo processes, such as cyanotype, vandyke brown, bromoil, etc.
Jonathan Penney Creative Imaging Weekly Makeover 08/24/09: Photog Robert Howard sent me the original image for a PPA comp print. I extended the foreground steam to frame the subject with light tones (see, I don't ALWAYS have to do a heavy corner burn....LOL) . The "steely" blue color balance adds extra "weight" to the mass of rolling iron.
Weekly Makeover 08/24/2009
Weekly Makeover 08/24/09: Photog Robert Howard sent me the original image for a PPA comp print. I extended the foreground steam to frame the subject with light tones (see, I don't ALWAYS have to do a heavy corner burn....LOL) . The "steely" blue color balance adds extra "weight" to the mass of rolling iron.
Jonathan Penney Creative Imaging Weekly Makeover 08/21/09: Original file shot by friend, photog, and webinar partner Greg Georges; Much of the skin texture comes from a BW conversion layer with red and yellow pulled back (much like shooting in BW with a blue filter on the camera). Local burning and dodging with several curve layers and masks; Daguerreotype layer added for texture.
Jonathan Penney Creative Imaging Weekly Makeover 08/19/09: The original file was scanned from 120 film neg, supplied by photog Catharine Carter for a PPA comp print. I thought it looked like a still life from the early days of photography, so I used a texture layer scanned from a Daguerreotype, circa 1850, and burned and blurred the corners to simulate the poor quality lenses of that time. The final print was a float mounted on an inset panel board.
Jonathan Penney Creative Imaging Weekly Makeover 08/12/09: The original image had a 50's feel to it, so I went with an aged Kodachrome slide look, using a texture layer that I scanned from an old neg, along with desaturating and shifting the color. I used curves with layer masks to selectively lighten her face and burn down the corners. Thanks to Candice Chambers for supplying the original file.
Jonathan Penney Creative Imaging Weekly Makeover 08/07/09: I combined a texture layer (scanned from a Polaroid transfer) with the original image supplied by pro photog Lisa Carter. I also blurred the corners, desaturated and shifted the color with several curves adjustment layers. Final print was made on my Epson 7900 on a textured watercolor paper; I did a hand-deckled edge and float mount for the final presentation.... sweeeet!!!! JP
Jonathan Penney Creative Imaging Weekly Makeover 07/31/09: A Lord-of-the-Rings-esque treatment, using split tone curves, some heavy corner burning, and two different texture layers from my personal collection. Thanks to Karen Dombrowski-Sobel for the original image.
