A Strip Mall Never Looked So Good
This entry was posted on Mar 17 2008
Jeez, I get 60 RSS subscribers and it goes to my head. No posts in a week! Well, I can assure you that I’ve left Cloud 9 and have resumed the life of the mundane, as portrayed in this most plain shot of a sunset viewed from a strip mall parking lot.
Of course, I had to do something to liven it up. I mean, it’s a strip mall parking lot, come on. For now, I’ll give you the basics and then maybe make it a tutorial. Here goes:
Open Photoshop CS2. First, I did the basic level adjustments and cropping, along with an auto color adjustment. Then, I killed some of the ugliness by using a radial blur set to zoom, focusing on the sunset. Finally, I decided to add a lens flare, even though it’s a filter that’s way overused. In this case, I think it’s excusable.
I hope you enjoy. I’ll be posting more, promise. Thanks for sticking with me. 
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Good work!!!
LOL It puts so much pressure on someone when they have that many readers, I know with the 51 that I have, I feel pressure to put my best out there, but really it only makes me work harder, and evolve, so it can’t be a bad thing.
Great photo, I wasn’t sure what you were trying to do with the blur but after reading your post, I like the idea. I tend to usually focus my attention on the photograph before I even read the post.
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So, you are the drunken sailor? lol… nice post dude… actually fpr this i want to share a suggestion… that pic may look even better with sunset color gradient.. actually quite nice to centerize the sun with the lens flare effect, but i think, the sun itself has to be bigger in proporsion..
well, just a wew wew suggestion..
from a drunken munky… lol..
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well, I’ve walk around your blog… very nice actually… you got so many artistic photographs.. for real.. well, I left you some of your work that i modify a lil bit.. hope you don’t mind.. i like those..
here they are..
open-orange-blossoms – http://imageshare.web.id/images/xga7yu7uk9qd2elx317o.jpg
and sourgrass-blossoms – http://imageshare.web.id/images/9vcfj9zqxyx2kgjyajs5.jpg
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I saw the title
Hoping for heap of rubble
I found a pretty sunset
hahahaha…. no more then… hahahaha…
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