Fajitas at home (C&C please)

pete4130

Here is Fajitas at his humble abode in London. He, like myself is feeling a bit down with London...we're both not working right now, finding the stress of the rat race all a bit too much for us and decided to have some one on one guy time and hang out at his. He posed for me in between playing on the grand piano, playing snooker on the full sized table in the attic, hitting up some Xbox on the wide screen TV and helping ourselves to the in-house bar too. I shot this and thought I'd ry something new with processing. It's an old house so I thought I'd try to give it an aged/vintage look with some sepia toning and some subtle vignetting to try fit with the decor of the house while trying to capture Fajitas looking a bit relaxed. I tried to squeeze as much detail form the image as I could with some selective dodging and burning.
Would love to hear any feedback from you guys!!!!

dudara

Suits you sir!

daycent

Cool! Pity about yer man at the table though.....

AnimalRights

Fantastic shot.
The feet on the massive table is the key for me.
Successful business man surveying his surroundings springs to mind.

Buzz Lightyear

Rather graund. Does one do tea, or would sir prefer a large brandy.

Love the processing pete. For two unemployed lads yer doing ok by the looks of it

dazftw

hahahahahahha

pullandbang

Looks like he needs new shoes

Great shot and great processing.

Chorcai

Buzz Lightyear wrote: »

Rather graund. Does one do tea, or would sir prefer a large brandy.

Love the processing pete. For two unemployed lads yer doing ok by the looks of it

Wheres the wife Patsy ?? The bottles of bollie ? :D

PP is very cool.

humberklog

Nearly there...it's just short of a lactating wolf for the big guy to suckle on.

Duotone surely?

ColmDawson

It's very overdone for my liking.

Ruu_Old

Needs more monocle.:) Well done, quite good.

Fajitas!

Rofl.

I think it needs more vignetting...

First thing I thought was thats the world's coolest, most intricate etch-a-sketch!

I wish I was unemployed and had a house like that...

DaireQuinlan

aaaaarghhh ... the goggles ...

KarmaGarda

Needs more pie

stcstc

man i knew i should chraged him more for that last set of prints!!

trishw78

I like the pp.

Where are the rest of the Knights of the Round table?

DaireQuinlan

DaireQuinlan wrote: »

aaaaarghhh ... the goggles ...

... they do nothing !!

PaulieC

a bit pedantic possibly, but how can you be fed up of the rat race if you are unemployed?

Fajitas!

Oh, you know, the stress of it all.

Or... something...

aaaaarghhh ... the goggles ...

But can't you see how unique and intricate it is? I mean Pete is obviously very passi... No, I just can't. :pac:

magicbastarder

it needs a bit more HDR, a bit more vignetting, some tobacco grads and a soft focus filter, methinks.

KarmaGarda

Bit of serious C&C then. I don't think it's overdone at all. Probably could do with some more sharpening. I'd run a couple of unsharpen masks (or photoshop sharpener equivalent) over it. Then add a noise filter. Probably increase the glow around the table, it looks too much like a photograph at the minute. Then increase the contrast, brighten it, add another noise filter, resharpen it again, add a layer copy and soft glow it, lighen mask it down, and posterise it. Then it would be close to perfect I reckon.

[/sarcasm off]

In short, not into that style!

Covey

KarmaGarda wrote: »

it looks too much like a photograph at the minute.

Class man, class ROTFL

mikeanywhere

Classic lol!!

Slidinginfinity

PP is not my taste, but would love to see the original.


Side note: How does and Irishman (I assume) wind-up with Fajitas! has a screen name?:D

Valentia

Yabba dabba dooooo! At shagging last. A legitimate use of HDR!!!!

Brilliant!

pete4130

There was absolutely NO hdr done to this at all. all done in Capture NX and photoshop without using any HDR tools or techniques.

Valentia

pete4130 wrote: »

There was absolutely NO hdr done to this at all. all done in Capture NX and photoshop without using any HDR tools or techniques.

Hah! OK. We'll just call it pseudo HDR so. Whatever it is it's so bad it's good :-)

Fajitas!

Slidinginfinity wrote: »

Side note: How does and Irishman (I assume) wind-up with Fajitas! has a screen name?:D

It's not that interesting a story unfortunately. If anyone wants to come up with an interesting reason behind it, I'll be sure to consider it...

Further off topic, I'm laughing at the fact that since last night, 750+ people decided to see me at home.

DaireQuinlan

Fajitas! wrote: »

Further off topic, I'm laughing at the fact that since last night, 750+ people decided to see me at home.

Dude, don't flatter yourself ! I just clicked through because I thought that Pete had taken some neat pictures of his lunch. At home. Imagine how disappointed I was !

Fenster

Maybe...just maybe it stems from my many years of being on the seedier parts of the internet. But. Yeah. Let's just say that I was glad to find Al clothed when I clicked into this thread.

katiemaloe

Its brilliant! The way he is so chilled out with his feet up. Love it!!! The house looks like a kip. Poor fajitas.

KarmaGarda

Fajitas! wrote: »

It's not that interesting a story unfortunately. If anyone wants to come up with an interesting reason behind it, I'll be sure to consider it...

Further off topic, I'm laughing at the fact that since last night, 750+ people decided to see me at home.

I could invent a story for you but it will consist of complete and utter drivel. And I'm not sure you'd repeat a story I'll invent

mikeanywhere

Fajitas! wrote: »

Further off topic, I'm laughing at the fact that since last night, 750+ people decided to see me at home.

webex doesnt count

CabanSail

Now that I can see the Photo I can comment.

I do like the texture you have given this shot & think the composition is really good.

What catches my eye, in a negative way, is the dodging & burning. It is very obvious & thus draws attention. It is most distracting around the chair in the foreground. Did you dodge & burn directly or have you done this on a seperate layer? If it is a seperate layer then spending some more time editing your mask would be worthwhile.