Darkness in Coney Island
You never know where will your next inspiration come from. I sat down to have late lunch yesterday. What will I do with my eyes? I have to have them look at something. I’d downloaded a series of Photoshop tutorials and decided to watch this particular episode. There were couple of pictures in there that blew me away; beautiful stuff! [Mark’s Ref Guide to Layers episode is a must for any PS beginner]
Usually I’d watch tutorials like this as a movie: “Oh, so that’s how they do it” and then done. I never attempt to give the techniques a try. This time I got up , picked up my camera, and shot a few cloud pics outside my window. I had to use clouds for something.
An hour later, after finding this rather bland Astroland photo, I ended up with this.
The ‘300′ -like effect happened unintentionally. At some point I tried the ‘Multiply’ blend mode and there it was. Man, you can’t mess with happy accidents!
Mm mm…that felt good and totally made my weekend. 
April 14th, 2008 at 1:28 am
THIS IS ASTROLAND!!
Sorry, I only had an obvious joke.
April 14th, 2008 at 1:43 am
Heh heh!
April 14th, 2008 at 9:41 am
Wow .. love the effect. Great stuff
April 14th, 2008 at 11:47 am
Fun. I thought a tornado of some sort had hit Brooklyn, until I read the explanation.
April 14th, 2008 at 11:52 am
Thank you, Dee!
My original title was ‘300 Coney Island’. I don’t know why I thought the current one was cooler. Anyway.
April 14th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
And to think they were going to tear this down…. Pretty cool looking
April 15th, 2008 at 10:13 am
That’s awesome. Much better with the “drama” filter applied.
April 15th, 2008 at 10:19 am
Thanks, Justin and Joe!
May 22nd, 2008 at 12:28 am
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