Picture 221

So, I had an idea.

I wanted to have picture made with a fish-eye lens.

But, there's the problem, I don't have one.

I had to make one...using Photoshop.

Here's what I did.

(Remember: The words above explains the pictures below them. Don't get mixed up!)

First I pick a jacket to wear.

I have a bundle of them, but I felt like it was time for Batman to return. :-)

So, I put it on.

I wanted the effect to look cool, so I though of a hallway.

The walls would curve and look nice.

I actually remembered to do some behind the scenes pictures!

That's me walking down the hall for the first shot. 

I wanted to be walking down the hall because it would look better.

Not just me fake walking, I actually wanted to walk.

So, I had to time it without looking.

Here's what I got. A bit dark and I wasn't walking good enough.

I took another one. Much better...but to dark...

I did one more and thought..."This isn't working."

So, I moved to the front. With more light.

And here's what I got...

I looked a bit weird, so I tried again.

Nope, I'm walking weird again, again.... So, I try again.

I don't know why, but I liked this one. It just seemed better to me.

So, I loaded it in to Photoshop.

First, I duplicated the main layer. So I have a back up.

To get the proper effect, I had to make the canvas bigger. So I won't get to many white edges.

I made it a nice, big size.

Pretty.

Then, I used an elliptical marque it select around the picture.
The closer it is to the picture, the more distortion.

After that, I added a Spherize filter.

Adjusted it to make the fisheye lens effect.

AND BOOM!! It's done!!

Then I cropped it to make it look nice.

And lastly, I removed the color.

ALL DONE!! Save it.

After all that, I added more contrast and making it pop.

While doing that, something hit me. I wanted to try out some other filters.

And just see what happens.

Here's the first. Normal, un-filtered.

The second one, I added some graininess.

One the third one, I used a pencil drawing filter.

The fourth one was a chrome filter.

The fifth one was the Cranquelure filter.

The sixth was gone with a mosaic tile filter.

And the last one, number seven, was a stain glass filter.
And this one won the vote. My mother picked it. :-P
I like it, it's cool, and different. Not to bad. It only to an hour to make all of them.