{"id":9825,"date":"2025-06-20T14:01:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T14:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9825"},"modified":"2025-06-20T14:01:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T14:01:38","slug":"rps-e-circle-processing-group-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9825","title":{"rendered":"RPS e-Circle Processing Group meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I belong to an e-Circle within the Royal Photographic Society (RPS) that discusses processing (i.e. editing) techniques. This month’s meeting was to produce two images: one monochrome, one colour, using photos of our own choosing. We are encouraged to be adventurous and produce something different. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below I show my work starting with a somewhat uninspiring photo. This is a view of the derelict coal mine workings of Chatterley-Whitfield in Stoke-on-Trent. These working are now in the middle of a country park – the spoil heap is now a small hill with paths leading up and over it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The uninspiring view of Chatterley-Whitfield coal mine workings.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The first version I produced is a sepia toned image with a textured layer introduced over the image:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The mine workings in a sepia tinted textured image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The next version is the coloured version. I like the effect of posterised images so used this for the main technique. Not my best work but as I have just started using Affinity 2 Photo as my editor I am still feeling my way along. However I think this is acceptable:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The mine works as a coloured posterised image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

That is all I needed to do for this meeting. However I wondered what I would get blending these two versions together. I will shows these as pairs of photos using comparison slider. These first two blends resulted in orange, but different tones:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first blended image produced an orange tint<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This second blended image produced a different orange effect<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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These next two blends resulted in totally different look and feels:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This third blend gives a brown tone to the image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This fourth blend in colour gives a dirty, grainy look to the image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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These photos, and the techniques I used, were well received. Likewise the work of other contributors was interesting, especially when they too started with a dull, uninspiring image. I learn a lot from these meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was an interesting exercise as I (and others) do like to experiment to get something unusual. We agreed to do the same next month (with different images…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I belong to an e-Circle within the Royal Photographic Society (RPS) that discusses processing (i.e. editing) techniques. This month’s meeting was to produce two images: one monochrome, one colour, using photos of our own choosing. We are encouraged to be adventurous and produce something different. Below I show my work starting with a somewhat uninspiring … Continue reading “RPS e-Circle Processing Group meeting”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,141,11,100,3,134,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-before-after","category-comparison-slider","category-landscape","category-photo-effects","category-photography","category-rps","category-staffordshire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9825"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9840,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9825\/revisions\/9840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}